Well sadly I have no knitting victories to share this week. After all the bolstering support I received last week, the birthday sweater remains very much unfinished…Dare I say hardly started? Somewhere early in the increases at the yoke of the sweater I miscounted. I have a tendency to misread every pattern at least once […]
28
Nov
Was that a weekend? Let’s review, there was: a little birthday shopping, a teeny, tiny thrifting, cleaning, cleaning, cleaning for an open house, an open house that no one attended, playing with (and ordering more) lovely felt, a little friend’s birthday party, a chance to visit with that little friend’s most wonderful parents, drinking green tea […]
27
Nov
“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 […]
25
Nov
Joining Amanda at Soulemama for this moment. {this moment} – A Friday ritual. A single photo – no words – capturing a moment from the week. A simple, special, extraordinary moment. A moment I want to pause, savour and remember. One of the 375 photos taken by 8yo Elizabeth one afternoon.
24
Nov
A couple of years ago we began a habit (perhaps a vice) of sitting down together to watch Saturday morning PBS. We stuck mostly to cooking shows with the odd This Old House thrown in. Sometimes a special breakfast was cooking, sometimes we were just finishing up our hot oatmeal. With a bigger family came […]
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Thanks for stopping by! I'm mommy to six lovely little people with a wonderful husband who loves us well. We spend our days homeschooling, baking, loving, laughing, cleaning and creating. Here's a little window into our joy, our chaos, our moments.