Ah yes summer was had by all 🙂 It was warm and delightfully slow. We got a great big pool and the kids lived in a tent all summer long. The ‘not so annual’ ladies tea was back on after a summer off last year and all four kids got tanned and taller. This was also a summer of ‘not knowing’ in many areas of life. I will touch on the most personal one pertaining to our immediate family.
All posts in Feeling It (Thankful)
Sewing, Gummy Worms and Saving Old School Wisdom cuz It is Still Wisdom!
We had a weekend of spring fun all planned out, soccer practice, work in the yard… and then a spring snow storm arrived bring a serious damper on our plans. Snow storms in spring are much like a rainy day in summer, faces get pouty and moods can get antsy, thus this mom declared a crafting day!
Rubber Boots Required
“Let us know; let us press on to know the Lord;
his going out is sure as the dawn; he will come to us as the showers, as the spring rains that water the earth.”
~Hosea 6:3~
My morning walk was so warm and comfortable and calm. Rubber boots required and this fact made it clear that spring does indeed come to the prairies each year. No matter how long the winter seems it ends in a damp season full of mud and pot holes in the road but no bugs, no blistering hot summer sun and very little yard work! I got teary eyes on the way home. I was thankful that if by chance I was spotted the prairie winds are always a good explination for watery eyes. Continue reading →
No Offense
Heard it said again today, in the context of learning to be slow to take offense and quick to forgive, that ‘refusing to forgive is like drinking poison and waiting for the one who wronged you to die’. This is true.
Joyeux Noël
There is a privacy about it which no other season gives you.
In spring, summer and fall people sort of have an open season on each other.
Only in the winter, in the country, can you have long, quiet stretches when you can savor belonging to yourself.
~Ruth Stout~
Our first winter here and so, of course, our first Christmas in the grand old house we call our new home. A winter of abundant and glorious hoarfrost and many power outages. Even Christmas morning was postponed till the power returned, after having been off most of the night, and so we started opening the presents much later in the day then children traditionally can handle.
Chasing Woodpeckers, Getting Told off By Starlings and Chatting with Chickadees
Woodpeckers are cute but destructively infatuated with cedar siding. On any given day any one of us will be seen, and probably heard, running out to yell and scare off these bug eating hole making birds. I wish I had some deep metaphor to use the woodpeckers in and perhaps a way they are helping grow me into a better person… I got nothing though…
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He will sing and be joyful about us!
The Lord your God is with you;
the mighty One will save you.
He will rejoice over you.
You will rest in his love;
he will sing and be joyful about you.
~Zephaniah 3:17
Prairie Summer So Brief
Summer was honestly a blur… a blur composed of an often unbalanced mix of study and play…the kids and I trying to daily work on our French and still make time to take hold of that delicious summer freedom.
Bed Time is A Crisis
It was well past his bedtime, so late Mom was ready to crawl into her own bed for the night. Unlike the stubborn little guy pouting in the hall Mom was more then ready for this time of the day. All the main floor lights were shut down and she was determined to get that frustrating littlest man into bed then find her own before she fell asleep on her feet. She walked up stairs intentionally stomping to give him a serious hint about how serious she was about him returning to his bed. Continue reading →
