From next to the fire with full arms and faces full of kefir… and because typing with two hands is overrated.
We live in about 300 square feet, these three children, husband, baby belly, and I. Most of you already know that, but there it is, in case you didn’t. It is a makeshift cabin built by my husband which is attached to the small camper we moved into when we first arrived on the land…
We stood with the sun setting at our backs, the damp dirt road stretched before us. Somehow it was just her and I at the end of the day and somehow neither of us minded. The air was cool but not cold. Spring was here, at least for today, and it came as it always…
We welcomed Hannah Joy into the family earlier this week and what a whirlwind it has been. I am still processing that we are holding this little one in our arms already and have no words than this, a psalm I have clung to over the past couple of years: 103 Bless the Lord, O my soul:…
There is a young man who lives in our home now. He sits across from me at the dinner table, shoveling more food than seems humanly possible into that growing body of his and I often mistake him for a grown man out of the corner of my eye. Though he is nearly as tall…
There is no denying the passing of time when one is a Mama. Days turn to years and years into a childhood and suddenly our firstborn is up to my chin. The girls used to love helping me carry slop out to the hogs. I say used to because the hogs have been gone for…
Her hand wraps effortlessly around my finger and it is like a thousand upon a thousand hugs. Her head smells sweeter than the sweetest flower in the greenest meadow and so I make my way back there a hundred times a day before it fades, for I know it will. My fate is sealed when…
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Sweetness
Beautiful pictures!
Thank you for sharing your “postcards.” Enjoy those kiddos–kefir and all!
So precious – and those days pass by at lightning speed (although it doesn’t seem like it at the time!)
Ohhhhhhhhhhh such sweetness – your postings always warm my heart. Blessings
Precious