I’m watching as the birds fly one by one into my garden and get busy. They’re all gathering sticks, leaves and hay stubble for their nests. Last fall, we dumped all our leaves into the garden and now it’s like a giant IKEA store for birds. I’m thinking they’ve shared this information with their friends because I … Continue reading
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What To Do When I Have to Wait
As a child, spring time meant blooming flowers and running barefoot. When the first flower buds appeared I would watch in anticipation, waiting for them to open up. I could see the bud growing and colors emerging behind the sepals. And I would wait. But as a little girl, I wasn’t always patient and I … Continue reading
Nothing really meaningful just a wish for Happy Spring
Everything is waking back up. My grass is finally turning that beautiful color of green and buds are beginning to come out on the trees. My daffodils are so close to opening I think by the end of the week I might just have a bloom! After this long winter in the Northeast, I think … Continue reading
What’s so good about Good Friday?
Yesterday, I was scrolling Facebook when a status caught my eye. “What’s so “good” about Good Friday? I mean, when was death ever good? In our own human understanding death is an end of what we know now. Yet as people who now live on the other side of Easter. Death had to happen before resurrected … Continue reading
Random Things I’ve Learned this Month
We have come to the end of another month and I can honestly say I think I was in a drug induced coma through more than half of it because I can’t remember where all those days went. Today we are linking up with Emily Freeman over at Chatting at the Sky with her blog post on … Continue reading
Keep Righting Even When We Don’t Get It Right
My daughters babysit for some wonderful families. In one of the families there is a 9-year-old girl. This little girl loves writing letters and sending little tokens of love to my girls. She writes about her day and how hard school is for a 9-year-old. My girls write back and encourage her to keep learning … Continue reading
Living Real through the messy and difficult ~ Five Minute Friday
It’s Friday and the first day of spring! You would never know it by looking out my window. The snow is still falling and the wind is blowing cold. Yet there are good things in store for today like a lunch date with my hubby and our Five Minute Friday link up with Kate and … Continue reading
Tripping Over Typeset 