Just a lovely lunch. Every so often….pulling out pretty dishes. Displaying food and then taking pictures. Stepping back to simply enjoy a pretty table! Embracing beauty. Using the pretty dishes I have and love! Enriching life and infusing it with joy in simple things. Reminding me again to take time and use the pretty […]
A Good Dog and Expectations
“Cooper, when I tell you you’re a good dog, I expect you to act like one.” Cooper was barking loudly, and wildly chasing our mama cat. First, under the trampoline. Next, across the yard, and finally, Kitty scrambled smartly up a tree. I’d walked up just in time to hear the words come out of […]
Passionate About Marriage
I have a heart for marriage. I feel passionately about it. The commitment to marriage and the plan God has for marriage is sadly becoming lost and tossed away today like so much litter. I want for people to love their spouse, love their marriage and be grounded in God. Does this mean I have a […]
Because It’s Summer
The laundry piles high. Clean. Just waiting to get folded. But I have this beautiful laundry basket my Mother gave to me for Christmas. One to me and one for my sister. It makes the laundry look better and rather homey as it waits. The sun beats warm on the house peeking in the windows. […]
Bemusement and a Date Night
Back in the ending of May or the beginning of June, I jotted my thoughts and closed my notebook and promptly forgot as I’m apt to do and as that is a busy season for us, I gladly grab that excuse. Recently, I reach for my notebook and randomly open it and read my words. […]
Treasured Up and Pondered ~ Dolphins and My Daughter
On Saturday morning, my daughter and I circle down the stairs and out the sliding door, past the pool, the white gate creaking on its hinges as we swing it open. My bag, hangs, heavy on my arm, because I filled it with my Bible study and two of the books I’ve been reading. A water […]
In Which We Wander On the Beach
In the early morning stillness and sunshine we wander on the beach. My daughter and my niece and I. We take pictures. And the girls get silly and my niece proclaims “I am a crab,” in a falsetto tone and we laugh and I snap pictures and remember all the times, my teenage friends and […]
Apricots and Sugar
Sometimes it rains. Sometimes you have a plan for the day. Sometimes the to-do list just sits and waits. Sometimes you call your farmer man and say, “It rained. Of course, you have nothing to do since it rained so……….” Sometimes you notice apricots on the counter. Sometimes you sprinkle sugar on the counter around […]
Flat-On-My-Back-Sciatic-Blues {Five Minute Friday}
A year ago, I was flat on my back and then flat on my face. Literally. Lower back pain that kept bothering me and continued to get worse and then erupted into sciatic pain down my leg and into my foot. And if I were going to choose a color to represent this haze of […]
More Quotes From True Woman 201
You can read the first post on True Woman 201 over here… True Woman 201 What true women have you been inspired by? I feel blessed to know a lot of women who desire to be true women of God and to strive for Him. I didn’t say perfect. They’re real. We’re real. […]
When, On The One Hand You Want To Dissolve Into Maniacal Laughter…
Life certainly has its moments. “You seem like you just have it all together.” THAT. That is what a friend recently said to me. Alrighty then. While I appreciated the thought and the compliment, {who doesn’t appreciate a good compliment now and then?} this big part inside of me wanted to fall down on the […]
A Very Disjointed Blog Post About Words and Manners and Wastebaskets
Words interest me. There are old terminologies that make me laugh. There are lots of words that are way over my head. There’s something that I think we all have in common and that would be an appreciation of kind words spoken to us or about us. I’ve heard and read stories of the opposite. People can […]
Just Some Thoughts on a Saturday Night
I’ve been more pain free this last week, than I’ve been in a long time. I am beyond thankful. AND we had nice weather, so I’ve been walking again some. Another thing I’m thankful for. AND I even jogged a little bit when I took a walk on Friday. This is monumental for me. Even two […]
A Lifeway Visit {Five Minute Friday}
I stood in the middle of the Lifeway store and looked around me. My sister-in-law had a gift item that needed returned and I was glad to visit an actual, real life, Lifeway storefront. I’d shopped Lifeway online, but never stepped foot inside one of their stores. I felt at home as I looked at all […]
Known By You, Lord
Lord, You always show up~You just show up in so many ways, in just the word I need, in just the way I need, Lord, YOU are so mighty. So above me. Yet, so close to me. Lord, I can not comprehend it. I am in awe of it. Lord, here I sit. Your creation, […]
My ABC’s of 2014
As 2014 drew to a close, words swirled around my brain. Words that characterized events and feelings and happenings and ups and downs of my year. Words that many others could relate to, yet at the same time their 2014 was unique to them alone. And my 2014 unique to me alone. Words patchworked together, […]