"There's just something about the way he sings. It makes me think of when it snows outside, and the fire is warm, and Podo is telling us a story while you're cooking, and there's no place I'd rather be--- but for some reason I still feel... homesick." ~ Andrew Peterson, On the Edge of the … Continue reading Stacked Wood & Hearthfires
"For the people who were shoveling away on the housetops were jovial and full of glee; calling out to one another from the parapets, and now and then exchanging a facetious snowball... laughing heartily if it went right and not less heartily if it went wrong." ~ Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol Good things in … Continue reading Skates & Christmas Mittens
"...As the days on which the Jews got relief from the enemies, and as the month that had been turned for them from sorrow into gladness and from mourning into a holiday; that they should make them days of feasting and gladness, days for sending gifts of food to one another and gifts to the … Continue reading Gray Skies & a Good Feast
"May the wind that blows the hardest bring you home." ~ Jon Foreman, "The Gift" Sickle moon Corduroy pants and feet in the sun Day at the pumpkin farm with the kids and the farmer who drove us out to the field, used his clippers on the pumpkins, and said, "I could stay out here … Continue reading Windy Walks & Chai
"We do not have to become extraordinary to be joyous." ~ Bethany Rose, Farm, Heart, Pen Newsletter These are the things that made me joyous in September: September marigolds A sweltering Monday, when the kids played hide and seek in the basement and we ate spaghetti under a storm warning Tree Climbing Lessons with Huddy … Continue reading Marigolds & Leaf Boats
“The hardest thing of all to see is what is really there.” ~ J.A. Baker These are the things that made me happy in August: Biking to the firehouse to vote In a garden that the deer ate up and the heat left haggard: coneflowers Sunday afternoon in August, watching the dragonflies Cardinals game with … Continue reading Mushrooms, Pears, & Rain in August
“I only went out for a walk and finally concluded to stay out till sundown, for going out, I found, was really going in.” ~ John Muir VBS -- A week for kids and circle dances and costumes and learning Hebrew and talking about Jesus when we walked by the way and when we jumped … Continue reading july ttmmh
"{In} grace... still my sighs and fill my mouth with song, then give me summer weather as a Christian." ~ The Valley of Vision, "Purification" Lemonade made with strawberries from the patch Drive to town with Trent, listening to Jamie Drake's new album Sweeping to The Sing Team Running a letter to the mailbox in … Continue reading june ttmmh
"I promise that I will bring you up out of the affliction of Egypt to... a land flowing with milk and honey." ~ Exodus 3:17 A Saturday for the kids -- on the floor, in highchairs, playing in the rock bed, eating brownies and reading Beatrix Potter stories on the back patio Playing violin barefoot … Continue reading may ttmmh
"For behold, the winter is past; the rain is over and gone. The flowers appear on the earth, the time of singing has come..." ~ Song of Solomon 2:11-12 Gardening and yoga Papa Jay trying to describe the forsythia by the bridge: "Like the sun just sitting there" Tuesday morning rain and writing Painting "Starry … Continue reading april ttmmh
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