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 Life Keeps Changing
soccer mom, cheer leader… who naps at the side lines ;)
Where did May go? Swallowed up by the craziness of sport… soccer to be exact. I just thank the Lord we set limits years ago. Fall the girls can pick AN activity and then spring is the boys turn. Still, with just the boys in soccer it has been a five to six nights a week gig.
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.
4 Little Kids Who Keep Loosing Their Mittens
There is no fear in love: but perfect love casteth out fear, because fear hath punishment; and he that feareth is not made perfect in love.
~1 John 4:18 (ASV)~
There are all kinds of opportunities in life to practice stepping out even when nervous, even afraid. Faith is stepping even if afraid, fear is going backwards… limiting and restricting yourself.
What a LOUD change QUIET has been!
For God alone, O my soul, wait in silence, for my hope is from him.
~Psalm 62:5 (ESV)~
Quiet is now found in my days. Silence, a much desired prize only so shortly ago when my crew of kids were younger, is something I have had to go through mixed feelings about once found.
Feeding the Birds
My eldest son came home very excited about a school project that made a simple and quick bird feeder. The crafting table was set up and we decided to encourage and help the little chickadees specifically. These adorable chubby birds stay here all winter and must be hungry.
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…
http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/woodpecker/
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.
