Counting Through February (133-141)

Three Ways I Feel the Love of God:

#133  The security and confidence in God I feel, when my husband humbly, faithfully 

leads us in prayer...

#134  The hope of sanctification I have when God teaches me the same truth in several 

very different areas of my life, simultaneously...

#135  The joy of praying in small groups with godly women...

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#136  A Gift in Losing Something:

 Precious pink "Silkie" lost by this same girl's five-year-old version--lost so long 

that the thumb was forgotten

Counting Through February (121-132)

Three Times I Heard Laughter Today:

#121  Kids watching Kipper

#122  Two littles in the bath in the middle of the afternoon

#123  Snickering at the silliness of Scarecrow and Tin Woodman in a classic

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Three Gifts Found in Working:

#124  Laundry all. done. The freedom (and wonder) of that.

Project 365: Week 6

Sunday, February 5, 2012

Paul snagged this moment on his phone:  little brother putting his head on big brother's lap during church. Big brother loved it, by the way!

Monday, February 6, 2012

Poppy stopped by today bearing CHRISTmas gifts from Aunt Wendy and Uncle Mert.

Counting Through February (115-120)

#115 A Gift Broken

Favorite handed-down beads, loved even more now they are broken

Counting Through February (100-114)

Three Gifts Found in Writing:

#100  Real poem by a real poet...for me...(seriously). This is an excerpt from "You're Dreaming." Click the link below to read the entire poem. Written. for. me.

(..........)    Oh, you're dreaming all right, and you're gold as an angel yourself, with your Botticelli curls and your small hands, and I'm watching you sleep and I'm older than you, but I know that dream, to fly until you die of flying.

               This is what it means, I tell you, in the deepest female parts of our dreams--comets, burning, ecstasy, nothing at all.

                    for Lori


--Lola Haskins, Desire Lines: New and Selected Poems

Project 365: Week 5 "business in the front, party in the back"

Sunday, January 29, 2012

Atticus is a very versatile superhero.

Monday, January 30, 2012

SCHOOL SCENES:

Counting Out Loud (#88-99)

Three Old Things Seen New:

#88 Beloved old favorite, loving once more

Counting Out Loud (#79-87)

Three Gifts That Might Never Have Been

#79 Soft, sweet boy with no words, grown into one now talkative and confident

Project 365: Weeks 3 & 4 "from the blehs...back to normal"

Sunday, January 15, 2012

After ridding this corner of its CHRISTmas tree, cleaning the house, and showing it yesterday, we set up the boys' racetrack here and let them go to town with it. It was the first thing they wanted to do when we got home from church today, though THESE photos are actually from Saturday. Read on and you'll see why I have no photo for today...

Counting Out Loud (55-78)

#55 A Grace in the Kitchen: 

Nana's couch warming us here, just as she herself did

#56 A Grace in the Weather: 

Bluest sky ignoring wintery trees

#57 A Grace That Might Never Have Been: