Monday was a bit of a crazy day in my house. It’s all faded into the past now, but I thought I should write it down so I don’t forget how ridiculous things can get sometimes… On Monday mornings, Andrew goes to preschool, and Sylvia and I come home and clean the house. This week, [...]
Lisa and Michael had their wedding photos taken by Grey Oaks Photography. After a month of anticipation, they now have their photos available for viewing on an online gallery. They’re great!! Here are a few of my favorites… This Thanksgiving, I am thankful for my new sister-in-law!
My sister, Maretta, and her husband, Kyle have had a bit of a housing adventure this past year. Last summer, they moved into a house with a couple of friends. They soon started having troubles with their landlord. He didn’t fix things (oh, like the hole in the living room wall). Then a couple months [...]
I received a card in the mail from an organization I support called The Center for Whole Communities. The card contained some lovely words that I thought I would share with you. This story is about generosity, and about nourishing one another with what we have. Honor the strength of relationships above all else Love [...]
Back when Andrew was in Texas, Bryan, Sylvia, and I went on a hike out on Picnic Point with Jessica, Mitch, Eli, and Celia. It was a stunning day. Warm, gentle, unseasonal, really! Jessica and I took some pictures of our kiddos playing near (or in Sylvia’s case, in) the water. Celia had just turned [...]
My kids dislike wearing shoes. And coats. And for the most part, clothes. That makes getting them out the door in cold weather a bit (ahem) of a challenge. I’ve felt rather daunted these last weeks, envisioning the next six months of shoe and coat wearing season. It stretches ahead of me like a dusty [...]
It’s Wednesday…my morning without children! Andrew is at preschool and Sylvia is at Donna’s house, and I am at the library uploading sweet pictures from a recent photo session. While I was waiting for my computer to go chug, chug, chugging along (it needs quite a bit of time to process these things…), I wandered [...]
On Children By Kahlil Gibran Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life’s longing for itself. They come through you but not from you, And though they are with you yet they belong not to you. You may give them your love but not your thoughts, For they have [...]
Our neighborhood park is full of oak trees. And this weekend, we discovered that the oak leaves have been put into one big, huge pile of leaves. Since the pile is 20-30 feet in diameter and 3+ feet deep, it was more like a pool of leaves! We made several visits to the leaf pool [...]
Tonight while she was taking a bath, Sylvia gave a peal of laughter that just made my heart sing. That girl. When she is happy, she reminds me of the king in the book The Quiltmaker’s Gift whose laugh, “Could make green apples fall and make flowers turn his way.” I found myself musing about [...]
