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, […]
Fourteen of My Favorite Posts From 2014
Now in theory, it sounded easy. Quickly choose and post fourteen of my own personal favorite blog posts that I composed and hit the publish button on in 2014. Starting to browse back through 2014 and choose the posts became a different story. There’s so much heart and meaning in our own personal stories. Lots […]
From Point A to Point B to Point C
When we got married, I started out driving a 1989 two door gray Blazer that still had a tape deck and I still listened to cassette tapes. I loved my little gray Blazer. My young husband had sold his black 1993 Chevy stepside pickup right before we got married and bought the Blazer for us. […]
More Quotes and Words That Resonate With Me
Oh the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person: having neither to weigh thoughts or measure words, but to pour them out. Just as they are-chaff and grain together, knowing that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping, and then with the breath of kindness, blow the rest […]
