angels all around

I feel like I’m on a different planet from this blog for the last little while…there is too much to take in.  Too much to record.  Too many feelings I have kept close to ponder in my heart before I’m ready to really write.  But really, I’ve realized that writing is what helps me decipher…

February little things

In the beginning of February our kitchen looked like this with our traditional kitchen “heart attack” plastered all over the place: Plus, it always looks squeaky-clean like that.  Ha! I should post more pictures of my kitchen when it’s strewn about with so many “things,” pots and pans and dishes and kids and backpacks and…

October little things

Old news but still good news. Lucy turned eleven and had been planning out that day for a long time. She was sure to let everyone know about the day. Even the minute of her birth (which Dave made up after her incessant asking and we couldn’t remember because we didn’t have her baby book…

September little things

Sun has set on September long, long ago, but here I am to document what happened that crazy month. (Claire took that above pic. at one of her soccer practices…or maybe it was game warm-up?  But I love how she caught that gorgeous big sky with the silhouettes of the players all tiny at the…

August 2017 little things

August 2017 little things

Grace got home from China the end of July, so the beginning of August was filled with Chinese gift-giving: …picture reminiscing: …and driver’s license testing.  More about that back HERE. Our life has changed for the better in SO many ways with that girl driving.  I honestly say a little prayer of thanks about every day…