1. ANTICIPATE Hello comrade friends! This summer has found me quite stuck on an icy, delicious SunJoy from Chick-Fil-A and I’ve anticipated every chance I was near enough to get one. I’ve always loved Lemonade, but not sure when I became such an Arnold Palmer fan, or in Chick-Fil-A’s case, SunJoy. I love the name […]
Wherein We Play The Rank Game
Hello to my comrades in Internetland. Bringing delight to my blog for us today is a BRAND NEW game! THE RANK GAME Storyastic sent me one to play and review AND they are kindly offering a giveaway to mail the game to one of YOU as well. Hurrah! There’s a coupon code at the bottom […]
Twelve Things Which Brought Me Delight in 2020
Grabbing a pen, I jot a list.Lists are a great tool for processing, for gratitude, for soulful introspection, for recalling the good, for memories, for hopes and dreams.The list of good lists is, well, quite a list! 🙂 No denying this year’s been different. But no denying there’s still been a whole heap of good […]
The Beauty of Little Acts of Kindness Matters
Last week, in the middle of a few busy days, my son slid the mail pile onto my kitchen island. It’d been bumping around in the farm pickup. My farmer man had plucked it all out of the mailbox right after lunch. Now, late afternoon found me flipping through it. Smack in the middle was […]
The Gift of Anticipation
It took me a while to name this. {A.K.A. years…}😆 I LIKE TO ANTICIPATE. I know these days and weeks have been different. As a homebody, I’ve loved the permission to live at a slower pace. The relief from the pressure to do more, go more, please other’s invitations. Yet, I still have missed things […]
An Excerpt From The Reminder of A God Who Sees Me
I cried over a kitten this morning. It felt dumb and ridiculous. It felt compassionate too, yet the critic in my head condemned me for crying over a kitten when I so often fail in my desire to have a deeper compassion for other people. It felt small and silly, for I could easily count […]
Ten Ingredients For a Hello Kitty Doll Teaparty
If you’re interested in teaparties and dolls and fun snacks and love you some Hello Kitty, I have a party idea for you! 🙂 Here’s a list of ten ingredients, give or take, you’ll want when throwing your teaparty! Many of the ingredients are quite adaptable to your preferences, tastes, and people! NO. 1 ~ […]
Feed Your People
My children made my day unexpectedly happy. I feel that all my parenting failures are absolved. 😄 Gathered around the kitchen island, my daughter sitting on it, swinging her legs and my son perusing the kitchen drawer for a snack, we chatted about a few of their childhood memories. Two of their favorites?! Snack time. […]
Wherein I Discover a System For My Podcast Listening Needs
I’m a book girl. Real paper and ink and binding and cover all fashioned together into a book I can hold in my hands. {E-books, if I have to, but my true love is the hard copies!} I tell you this to say, “I like to read.” I love stories and I love to watch […]
A Common Masterpiece
Raspberry coffee drips in the coffeemaker. The quiet of the morning surrounds me. My farmer man left early, thus the raspberry dripping. I sent him out the door with hazelnut and a splash of half and half in his insulated mug, given to us by the insurance company, their name scrawled in letters across the side. Sliding the […]
Some Of The Most Beautiful Things In Life We Can’t Hold In Our Hands
Some of the most beautiful things in life are the things we can’t hold in our hands. Things like beauty and laughter and amazement and memories and golden days and the gift of time and kisses and adventures and successes and awe and accomplished tasks and salvation and wonder and delight and kind deeds and […]
In This House
In This House………. …there are quite often crumbs on the floors and dust in the corners. …you will find at least a few dirty dishes piled in the sink……..and sometimes a whole teetering stack! …items rest quietly on the counter waiting their return to rightful homes. …there is always dirty laundry. …often, a basket of […]
Make the Memories Because We Can
In the rhythms and routines of life, The day-to-day, The simple tasks. The have-tos and must-be-dones. Along the edges and cracks. We find ourselves creating. Creating though we do not see it forming at the time. We mold memories. Traditions arise and unfold in the threads and edges. Unplanned, really. One day we tell. We […]
The Fabric of Our Days
Open windows and Adventure and Shrieks and Laughter. . And 7:15 a.m. with 63 degrees on the thermometer and a cool breeze. And my white robe belted around me feels snuggly good and I’m quite content to curl my hands around my coffee mug and watch from my backdoor porch. I’m mostly not-a-thrill-seeker. My adventures […]
Gratitude For Jesus and Happy Things
Three devotions I recently posted on Instagram ~ He Meets Our Needs Water-pelted soil lies damp, deep, silent. The water-runs leave furrows and marks and the dirt, now mud-clumped, shows the etched lines left by my farmer’s implement. It contrasts beautifully against the brilliant blue this Kansas sky is so good at. It shouts silently […]
In Which I Think About Special Days and Friendship
I do not claim to understand life. The living and breathing and moving of it. The heart of it and soul in it and soul in us. Mystery this. How we live in the moments and the clock tick-tocks them away faster than we can say hickory-dickory-dock and wraps them up into memory packages for […]