"And now these three remain…faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love."
This post is late, but then everything in my life seems to be this week. I’m writing in response to LL Barkat’s weekly prompt, a call to write about where you are, right now. This is writing from where I was on Monday, actually. I push open the glass doors, hold one open for Middle […]
Read more
Image via Wikipedia “They’re like Cheerios in Milk!” Hubby exclaimed as he watched the shepherd try to seperate, or “shed,” five sheep from a clump of sixteen. The animals drew together like woolly magnates, and it was painful to watch the shepherd draw a few out at a time, coax them away from the group […]
Read more
in·spired–adjective. Aroused, animated, or imbued with the spirit to do something, by or as if by supernatural or divine influence: an inspired poet. Have you ever seen it…the moment something ceases to become work and becomes inspired? I think I saw it happen yesterday. For the last year or so, Eldest has been working hard […]
Read more
This…. Is how you know your Youngest and Middle Child both have had enough time doing nothing and are now ready to start the school year. Can you see her? The girl holding a bouquet of red roses and walking her Teacup Poodle? Yep, we have finally achieved enough solid Boredom Time that school is […]
Read more
Youngest child stroked the cat’s short fur, leaned back on grass and sighed. “I don’t see how anybody could throw out such a beautiful cat,” she said, shaking her head. I bit my lip, nodded, scratched behind the cat’s ears. I smiled at her, the little girl with the big heart. The cat just lay […]
Read more
Here’s Middle Child… …she was making faces, but I caught her anyway!
Read more
The heat falls down like a wool blanket, and who would have thought that 10% more humidity would make such a difference? We’re hot and tired, coming home from church. Cleaning must be done, lunch made, dinner started. I feel like lying under the cool air blowing from our swamp cooler and just…lying there, all […]
Read more
It’s been a whirlwind of a summer, and it doesn’t look like it will be calming down any time soon. I’m feeling like I need a vacation from my vacation! We’ve had a paint crisis…started to paint our peeling old farmhouse only to find we’ve been living in a lead-encrusted environmental hazard. Alright, I’ve been […]
Read more
Today, this little angel is Eleven! Where, oh where did the time go? Sweet girl, I love you with all my heart and my life has been blessed by the privilege of being your mother. I pray for you many, many happy years to come!
Read more
Today we built our tiny house! We made the bricks from scratch with gluten-free salt dough, please see this post for details. Now for the mortar, the timbers and the construction! First, the kids went outside and collected some sticks to serve as the house’s timbers. If our house had two stories, we would have […]
Read more
Facebook
Twitter
GooglePlus
Flickr
Pinterest