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 […]
12
Oct
It won’t last long. Hopefully not even until the weekend. And I wasn’t ready – not by a long shot. It was wet, and I froze, and our entryway looks like a winter wear tornado blew threw. But we loved it. It was beautiful. Those pink cheeks. Those little kids in giant snowsuits. The layers […]
11
Oct
Well hello there, friends! I’m not much of a blogger these days. And I miss it. And you. Even my camera misses my blogging because somehow she has also been neglected. (And I know Dan misses finding my camera parked in dangerous and inconvenient places.) I keep thinking of things I want to tell you […]
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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.