when spring comes

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Maybe it was the way last week’s muddled grey clouds hovered like dust over my soul or the unexpected chill that forced us back into...

a backyard birthday dinner

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A community is the mental and spiritual condition of knowing that the place is shared, and that the people who share the place define and...

the table | common, everyday life

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As the years pass, I am coming more and more to understand that it is the common, everyday blessings of our common everyday lives for...

only once

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Things never happen the same way twice. ― C.S. Lewis The morning is slow, rare for us on any day, especially on a Saturday. Mark...

OUR HOMESCHOOL IN PICTURES

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It is raining this evening. Our windows are open allowing the delicate chimes and water and air to sing to us. April has come: a...

strawberry pancakes

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  • SPRING
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Seeing that we had several pounds of strawberries to use and preserve, the girls and I decided to make strawberry pancakes for breakfast last weekend....

a strawberry farm

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Sometimes I need only to stand wherever I am to be blessed. ― Mary Oliver, Evidence: Poems Last week the days grew so warm that on one...

THREADS {two ways}

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  JACKET (similar here, here, or here) DAY: dress | boots | earrings | sunglasses | bag NIGHT: blouse | jeans | earrings (similar here or here)...

visiting the pioneer life

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Normally, we spend our Spring Breaks visiting friends or family out-of-town and filling our days with fun, atypical activities. Not this year. This year, we...

lately

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Everything is a grace, everything is the direct effect of our father’s love — difficulties, contradictions, humiliations, all the soul’s miseries, her burdens, her needs...