waiting for the sun to rise

All I have seen teaches me to trust the Creator for all I have not seen.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson

created for us

I open our brown box like a Christmas gift, marvel at colors, textures, flavors

such perfection, beauty, infinite variety...

well, it is a gift isn't it?

for today, a song

have I shared this one before? maybe I have. but it's worth another listen. and another...

{"Restless Ones" - Josh Garrels from Josh Garrels on Vimeo.}

soap creatures - good clean fun

need some rainy day fun?

got ivory soap?

how 'bout a microwave?

zap the soap and watch your creatures grow -not to mention your kids eyes...

clean up? easy -send them all to the tub!

katie in fairyland

Fairy Tales are more than true; not because they tell us that dragons exist,

but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten. -G. K. Chesterton

a wall of world history

Spent the bulk of our school morning sticking the timeline to his wall.

Tristan loves history and thanks to classical conversations and these audio books, this kid knows history.

think through me

thoughts

projects

a lot of projects going on around here on this beautiful Monday

I've been catching up on some things myself, like over here...

calm

an evening on quiet water beach

yesterday today

yesterday she was two

a happy, playful, adorable, two

today she is three

and still happy, playful, adorable, katie.

oh kate, we love you so.
happy birthday little one!

after a full day...

...of driving one long errands-and-appointments circuit, found myself (finally) alone in a hair salon parking lot, feeling like I "accomplished" nothing. why do we tell ourselves such un-truths?

hoping your day was super

it's a beautiful day

there are so many moments in the day when I have a choice. when I fail miserably.
grumbling or joy? right now, this moment, I choose joy.

on prayer and us

"We must lay before us what is in us, not what ought to be in us." ~C.S. Lewis

today i...

talked to Lisa on the phone while browsing $3 photo frames at the antique shop down the road
-the one with the amazing old tree that stands guard out front.

under a blue sky

"The love of Christ is like the blue sky, into which you may see clearly,

but the real vastness of which you can never measure."

~Robert Murray McCheyre

2.9.2012

{happy birthday, tristan, my sweet boy. i love you so much.}

goodnight

a day in the life...

...of a very nearly eight year old boy.

there was a moment...

as the long day's light faded,
and they jumped for pictures, laughed at blurry selves, ran to jump again, laughing again-
when life suddenly came into focus,
dazzling, bright.

sunday fruit

so this is winter in Florida

 colorful planter boxes and short sleeved Saturdays...

we wish for snow and cozy fires and cute winter hats...

...but really, we can't complain.

comforts

elderberry syrup for the sick one who can't sleep,
espresso for the one who must hold and cuddle and wipe the runny nose