Sarah

A couple nights ago, I felt good. Good as in almost great! So we went outside after supper and drew and painted with chalk. Had quite the gathering of neighborhood kids (always my favorite) and even decorated some trees in the process. I was feeling...

11 August, 2014 /

Have you ever been given a gift so big, so extravagant that you could only cry in response? Could only stare in shock, no words to break the moment? Could only think, Surely, this is not from man but from the Lord! We just did. We haven't...

01 August, 2014 /

It seems like just when I'm down enough to say, these days are too hard to continue, the Lord sneaks in a little reminder that joy is a choice no matter the circumstances. Tell me this wouldn't make you smile. (I promise you I found it like this right on its...

30 July, 2014 /

The week before Mothers' Day, our city offered a "Mommy Son Adventure" (from which the word adventure has entered Corban's near daily vocabulary: "Let's go on an adventure, Mom!"). It had a dinosaur theme and included 8 or so different stations from matching to puzzles to races to...

10 June, 2014 /

A little while ago, I mentioned that one of James' coworkers gave us an easel no longer desired by her grandkids. We were thrilled! After playing with it for a few weeks, I realized that the chalkboard side was pretty well worn through to the wood in several...

02 June, 2014 /

  We found something unexpected in our backyard today. By their height, I'm guessing they've been there a while. But somehow I'd never noticed them. They were all spread out, one by one, so at first glance, they were easy to miss. Then my eyes were opened, and there they were, just...

20 May, 2014 /

My birthday started just like any other day. One child ate chalk. Another dumped an entire, full container of cinnamon on herself and in every crack in our wood floors. And the baby was weary of having so many faces look at her first thing in the morning. I threw a party,...

15 May, 2014 /

Once upon a time, a man and a woman had a baby boy, making them parents for the first time. The everyday demands of their lives did not change, and he quickly came alone with them on errands such as grocery shopping. As the boy...

06 May, 2014 /

The snow lasted something like a hundred days this winter. I've always said if it's gonna be cold, let there be snow, but shew, the length of this winter really tested that statement! We love walking through the quiet lanes in the cemetery a few blocks down. Even in...

12 April, 2014 /

Is it too late to write about what we did for Vday? 'Cuz I think it was about a year ago. March was loads of babysitting and preparation for the Art Gala and James' birthday giant surprise and a gradual losing of a certain 3-year-old's nap, and suddenly...

11 April, 2014 /
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