SEASONS

in praise of fall

  • AUTUMN
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  • SEASONS
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We spent the day at a local event celebrating fall recently. While the event was primarily to help raise money for a local nature conservation...

all in a weekend

  • AUTUMN
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  • CHILDHOOD
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  • FAMILY
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  • SEASONS
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  Rest and be thankful. ― William Wordsworth Sometimes I think about the early days of our family, when we’d harness babies to our bodies and...

a daytrip to Galveston

  • LIFESTYLE
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  • SEASONS
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  • SUMMER
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  • TRAVEL
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Life, with its rules, its obligations, and its freedoms, is like a sonnet: You’re given the form, but you have to write the sonnet yourself....

when spring comes

  • SEASONS
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  • SPRING
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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...

only once

  • CHILDHOOD
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  • FAMILY
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  • SEASONS
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  • WINTER
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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...

strawberry pancakes

  • FOOD
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  • RECIPES
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  • SEASONS
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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

  • HOMESCHOOL
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  • PRESCHOOL YEARS
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  • SEASONS
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  • SPRING
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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}

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

the earth’s poem

  • LIFESTYLE
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  • MINDFULNESS
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  • SEASONS
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  • SPRING
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It is spring again. The earth is like a child that knows poems by heart. ― Rainer Maria Rilke Spring has arrived here, wrapping us with...

you are my sunshine

  • FAMILY
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  • MOTHERHOOD
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  • SEASONS
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  • SPRING
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Be soft. Do not let the world make you hard. Do not let pain make you hate. Do not let the bitterness steal your sweetness....