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  • ~our weekend~

    Grace got sick in her bed in the night Friday night and when I went up to strip her bed on Saturday morning (in the middle of celebrating David's birthday, making pancakes, and needing to wrap his gifts). . . . .anyway,…

  • (Jesus led me all the way)

    Update on Pastor Steensma: My mom just called and said, "I have wonderful news! Pastor is off the respirator, sitting up, and eating!" I could tell by my mom's voice how relieved and excited she was to hear this news.…

  • Yesterday, I was thrilled to photograph a "Cecropia Silkmoth" (thanks to coolmomofeight for figuring out what it was!!). The moth was dangling off a small branch on the edge of our yard, in a shrub. I wrote yesterday,…

  • Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul. ~John Muir Good evening! Rich had to go downtown for something (he told me, but I can't…

  • (((promise from God)))

    It only lasted about 5 minutes but it was like an injection of joy into my heart. It was a much needed gift.

  • Raspberry Cherry Pie & Chocolate Mallow Pie

    Lookfor a lovelythingandyouwillfind it.~Sara Teasdale David found this Robin's egg on our driveway, it had fallen from a nest.We admired it and then put it back. ***************************Recipe for a Lovely Pie. …

  • children, cats, and ducks

    If I had my life to live over, I would start barefoot earlier in the spring and stay that way later in the fall. ~Nadine Stair My babykins will never say that. . . . .they are already going barefoot as often as they are…

  • "There is just so much to laugh and cry about" . . .just read this "Anne" quote in a comment that was left in my last post.Isn't that the truth, especially for overly sentimental folk, like me? (can anyone relate?)This …

  • free to be

    Taketimefromdoingtoenjoybeing yup, this is what we woke up to this morning.I ate my breakfast while walking through the woods. My bran muffin tasted great with snowflakes on it.

  • boys and birds

    What wonderful comments you all added to my post from this morning, thank you SO much! Today was a better day, the best day I've had in a while, as a matter of fact. I slowed myself down and made an effort not to be r…