Last week Joshua slept for longer than ten minutes without Mama’s arms around him. I then found these little ladies snoozing peacefully in their beds. Neither of these rarest of occasions has repeated itself, making the photographic evidence even more precious.
Perhaps a disclaimer is in order: not liable for anything said when hormonally possessed and at 40+ weeks gestation. I doubt I am the first woman nearly two weeks over her "due date" who is pretty much fed up with the hoopla. Nine months ago you excitedly get a positive pregnancy test, have a date…
…are all around us. They are in the strong-willed toddler whose lack of humility mirrors my own. They are in unforeseen delays that bring us home a day later, protecting us from only God knows what. They are in windows that won’t roll up and windshield wipers that will not work. Grudginly taking the van…
Mother-Ease Cloth Training Pants I am a long-time fan of Mother-Ease diapers and cloth diapers in general. We have used them almost exclusively for both of our boys, which I wrote more about a while back. Now that our boys are (mostly) out of diapers, the Mother-Ease training pants are a very nice way to…
I sit down, laptop in hand, breakfast by my side. Stewart is manning the children, breakfast, and the morning school activities and I am in a quiet room with enough coffee to float me down a river. I guess that’s what it takes to bang out some photo editing and key strokes these days. But…
I don’t really know what happened to January. We started digging up the potato field. We had a lot of cozy evenings by the wood stove. We did a lot of addition and long division and multiplying fractions alongside reading and penmanship and english. I finally got around to planting broccoli starts which have still…
With all that has occurred in the last year the topic of illness has certainly been on people’s minds. I think we can agree everyone thinks about it. Whether you are for or against masks, or vaccines, or natural treatments is irrelevant to the point at hand. Each mask you see, each news story, and each time a person is faced with a decision to do or not do something is a reminder of sickness and disease. I’ve also had health issues in the last year and I’ve had several relatives who are encountering some very serious health struggles of one kind or another. It is with all this as a backdrop that I place the question before you, does God use sickness? And if so, what for?
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absolutely beautiful! I love your post cards 🙂
Such precious little ladies and a precious little man….
So sweet! 🙂
Ohhhh just melts my heart! I miss babies – sigh
I always take pictures when my oldest falls asleep. 😉 So rare!! Congratulations on your sweet baby!