All Things Home and Family
Spring is officially here even though there is no green outside yet to prove it. The lawn appears at this point to be dead. The only evidence of life are the little daffodil spears showing through the ground. It's enough to comfort my longings for green. It's been harder this spring, to believe, for me.… Continue reading Spring Transformation
Gwen turned seven years old and Myles six this month of March 2017. When March rolls around each year Myles gets to have his birthday a week before Gwen making them seem like they're the same age for a week. This birthday bundling helps me as the Marmee to remember, so I like it. And when we… Continue reading Birthdays And Other Scribblings
We are traveling to Nebraska this afternoon having left right after church. We went to the morning service with the car already packed so we could leave right from there. I am blogging on the road taking advantage of a huge supply of data that is on our phones by way of tethering to my… Continue reading Beauty Is God’s idea
Spring is in the air even though we had two degrees below zero this morning. It's the time of the year for some fresh table center pieces and for dusting bookshelves. New décor and gardening plans. If we can't have spring outside, we can have it inside and the outdoors will soon catch up and take over.… Continue reading Sunshine and Succulents
1. To decide to be thankful for each other.2. To value our marriage as precious. To be responsible to the matrimonial essence of it. We promised. 3. To nurture the love and respect that we need for each other. 4. To overlook the lapses, his and mine.5. To never let go of hope or… Continue reading We Promised
... let us continually offer the sacrifice of praise to God, that is, the fruit of our lips, giving thanks to His name. Hebrews 13:15 My Thankful List~ Sunshine pouring into the living room on a March morning.~ The prospect of two cabin days coming up.~ The end of winter viruses at our house.~ Grown… Continue reading Thankful All Day Long
The rain has been forecasted for over a week. We were all hoping that "they" would be wrong again. It's a month too early for spring breakup for the loggers. The "Birke" (annual world class ski race) is scheduled for this coming weekend. Will the snow be all rained away? Will the loggers be cast upon… Continue reading Monday Rain in February
Even in the city there's beauty on a cold winter day. I noticed and grabbed this photo in Minneapolis last week on our way to set up for The Lake Home and Cabin show.Setting up our booth in the convention center reminded me of Sugar on Snow days. It seems long ago and far away,… Continue reading February Blahs and Other Adventures
Cold weather has returned after a couple of weeks of a January thaw. Amy removed a bucket full of ashes from the living room stove and Elv cleaned them out of the stove in his study. When this cold weather hit yesterday we started having trouble getting a good bed of coals and our fires… Continue reading Roses and Silver and Ordinary Winter Days
It's Monday evening. We have a few inches of new, powdery snow on the ground and more coming maybe. It's cold again. One of these days maybe the sun will come out on a white sparkling world and we'll be able to get some much needed happy. Blogging and writing have ground to a standstill… Continue reading Winter Monday Post
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