Our family’s migration to Kansas introduced us to a close up look of the “Sensational Cross-Country Flight” of the Monarch butterfly. Lawrence is a blip in their “directional GPS” as they flutter with fortitude toward their wintering home in New Mexico! Last year, Jeff and I, along with Aunt Melody, took Josh, Moriah, Finley, Cohen, and Bethany to an enclosed […]
“Make New Friends- But Keep the Old One is Silver and the other is Gold!” [Tweet “One thing sure in life is this: THINGS CHANGE.”] When Bethany was born, I was concerned that all her siblings were older and she wouldn’t have the joy of home schooling or playing with them; thereby not knowing them […]
I laughed this morning reading my husband’s comment on my last post! And I quote, “I miss those nesting days too. These days its the flutter of wings everywhere, but then, I like the feel of a breeze in my face. And our children are flyers. They really are.” (of course he feels wind- he’s […]
“There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One of these is roots, the other, wings.” – Hodding Carter I could NOT be a mother eagle. They actually tear apart their nest to encourage their young to fly away!!! How barbaric is that? lol I can’t help reflecting: the dazzling, dynamic season […]
What’s on your list for today? ~ I’ll never fully understand what compels me to make lengthy, laborious, lists? Lists that I lose and don’t/can’t complete.- 😉 ~ Today- I think I’ll put “MAKING GOD SMILE” at the tip-top! ~ I was stressing- you know- “the running around, heart pumping, kinda grouchy, I don’t know how […]
Beauty is in the eye of…. Our Creator (betcha thought I was going to say beholder 🙂 ) [Tweet “#Beauty is in the eye of the #Creator.”] Besides log throwing, kilt inspecting, bag-piping parades and Highland dancing; face painting was one of the tents we visited at the […]
Practically every weather worthy morning, “Poppi” (aka Jeff) “races” 1/2 mile around our block ‘ not in a 3K but WITH 3 K- (3 kids- Bethany, Cohen, and Finley) The grandchildren and Beth think they’re in “training” and love this “race”. ~ “I’m gowin fastah dis time Nana”, Cohen boasts. Finley quickly inserts, “Nana, we’re going with Poppi! […]
Birds serenaded us as we walked, hand in hand, through Finley Forest. (thus named by Finley of course 🙂 ) The breeze caused a shower of crabapple blossoms to swirl around us. Finley exclaimed, “Look Nana, God is making the flowers dance for us!” I hummed the old hymn- “This is my Father’s World” as […]
Our granddaughter, Finley Faith (5) is amazing, wonderful, beautiful, sweet, kind and very talented! 🙂 I read somewhere that it’s perfectly proper and acceptable for a Nana, Grandma, or Oma to NOT ONLY THINK these things but SPEAK OUTLOUD the truths about their grandchildren! LOL She’s also very artistic. It seems she is […]
“A merry heart does good like a medicine. But a broken spirit dries up the bones.” Proverbs 17:22 KJV A cheerful heart is good medicine, but a broken spirit saps a person’s strength. Proverbs 17:22 NLT A cheerful disposition is good for your health; gloom and doom leave you bone-tired. Proverbs 17:22 […]
I’m Sarah, oldest of Jeff and Cindy’s kids, now in my “30’s” (ewwww!) and mom to hilarious, clever, gorgeous daughter Finley (6) and handsome, silly, brave son, Cohen (4). Hmm- I suppose even after being divorced for a few years, it still feels like there’s a noticeable gap in that “family” opening introduction. God continually […]