From the monthly archives:
Let the fun begin! Time to dig out the hats and mittens… After our crazy wind storms, our yard is positively covered in pine needles… Covered, I tell ya’. I’m not Old Man Winter’s biggest fan, but our frost-covered mornings are beautiful. I admit it. With gloves on… And a hat. And probably a scarf. [...]
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Can there really be such a thing these days as too many pictures? The days of pricey film and processing are over, for most of us anyway. Digital cameras have made a way for us to capture dozens, or even hundreds, of pictures of our lives every single day. Didn’t make me nervous. Nope, not [...]
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This past weekend, I did something that was not so ordinary, at least, not for me. In fact, it was rather extraordinary. I took a little trip. Without my family. I know… It was good, so good, soul-stirring good. It was scary and it was freeing. It was hard and it was healing. It was [...]
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“Read it again” “Sing it again” “Do it again” “Can we play it again?” Just as the sun keeps rising and setting , over and over again, day after day, so does a Mother the same thing, again and again and again. We- Wash the dishes and the clothes. Buy, cook, and serve, food prepared [...]
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Glimpses of our week, another one that flew by too quickly… Linky coming next week the week after next! (Saturday, October 30th)
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Oi. First, somebody moved my Monday, and now, my whole week? Yowsers, between sheer and utter exhaustion and far too much vomiting, sorry, but it’s true, this whole week seems to have been sucked into some time sucking vortex of unknown origin. Except that I know the origin- exhaustion, vomiting, again, sorry, but it’s still [...]
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Here it is, late Wednesday, and I’m sitting here thinking about my to-do list(s) for the week, like the one that started on Monday, and, um, sort of wondering what happened. It feels like life is moving at warp speed. Life in a large family is always moving pretty fast, even with only a limited [...]
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When All Thy Mercies, O My God Jospeh Addison 1712 1. When all thy mercies, O my God, My rising soul surveys, Transported with the view, I’m lost In wonder, love, and praise. 2. Oh, how shall words with equal warmth The gratitude declare That glows within my ravished heart? But Thou canst read it [...]
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