A soul that walks on water leaves no footprints, but will make waves."
I woke up swinging today.
The fight wasn’t my own and I never let fly any literal punches, but I felt the blows to my temple and gut.
When my eyelids are sprung by bird calls and 5:15 sunshine, I don’t mind. When my whole body jerks to a scream…
“mom the sun is in my eyes!”
You can close your eyes, because you aren’t driving.
Isn’t that what God asks us to do?
We complain about hindrances to our calling and He shakes His head saying…”rest, I’ve got this.”
This is the last week of school. The boys are so excited and I am excited for them. Ivan especially cannot wait to call himself a first grader instead of a kindergartener.
It’s the last Monday to have this. This today, with all it’s weaknesses i…
I love to display my kid’s artwork. I have to rotate it out regularly and make room for more fabulous drawings and paintings.
I’ll be honest, I don’t always like what they make. Sometimes I don’t see the value in the subject, sometimes I have to…
When she sat in the chair in the corner, with the sunlight falling on her bed and the sounds of outdoors, the birds, the children and the whirring of insects came blowing in through her patio window, what did she say to you?
When she was too warm to…
I’m a little behind on photos and uploading and dishes and vacuuming and reading and pretty much everything else in my life, but I’m having a good time.
Easter was almost a month ago, but just so I took a few pictures of the boys and figured I might…
When He cometh, when He cometh
To make up His Jewels
All His jewels, precious jewels
His loved and His own
Like the stars of the Morning
His bright crown adorning
They shall shine in their beauty
Bright gems for His crown
He will gather, He…
“Fathers, do not provoke or irritate or fret your children [do not be hard on them or harass them], lest they become discouraged and sullen and morose and feel inferior and frustrated. [Do not break their spirit.]” Colossians 3:21 (Amplified)
This…
Owen presented his invention on Tuesday and he received an A+. I can’t imagine that anyone received much less than that because each of those kids did a bang up job.
The third grade classes were asked to judge the inventions produced by the second…
Aron was first up this morning, after me.
Green flannel Christmas pajamas and skinny four year old bare feet curled up in my lap for a little while.
His stillness, my sleepiness and the knowledge so evident in his older brothers, that it won’t be…