Some of you have expressed excitement, even jealousy over the snow we received a couple of weeks ago. Well it happened again over the weekend. I hoped it was just a phase but it’s stayed and it keeps coming. I’d prefer to enjoy these beautiful snowfalls in December but the kids are in snowy heaven. […]
22
Oct
Leftovers and piecemeal dinner; a break from Christmas knitting for a sweet baby hat; waking late to a white sky – snow to come; then it came and came and came – beautiful, if cold; a drive in the white stuff to visit a sweet family and photograph their darling newborn, what a treat it was; […]
18
Oct
When we came upon the baseball diamond in the park the kids begged to stop and play baseball. We didn’t have ball or bat but they wanted to play pretend baseball. “In pretend baseball no one loses!”, our peacemaker chirped. Well I like the sound of that sibling harmony. They took the game pretty seriously. […]
16
Oct
reality check :: morning’s grace
Posted by Rachel Published in beautiful things, gratitude, reality check, thoughts“Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend. Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today and […]
14
Oct
an autumn weekend’s gratitude
Posted by Rachel Published in family, out of doors, thoughts, weekendingIt began when a friend joined us for pie: shepherd’s and pumpkin; that same friend’s help with the mammoth kitchen cleanup and bedtime roundup before knitting on the couch; a day of cleaning up, trying to sort out the fluffy dream that is my not-so-organized yarn stash, and motivate some children to chores; then joined […]
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