contentedness
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To be delighted
In the past few weeks I feel as though I’ve come out of a cave. I didn’t even realize I had been in a cave, but sometimes it’s hard to see how dark…
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Laying down
A few years ago some words that a family member had spoken were passed along to me. They were something along the lines of supposing that I must be miserable because I stay…
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Bread of Life
The big boys are coming back after 6 days away at camp. For a homeschooling family that is a lot of time spent apart and I for one am really looking forward to…
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Distractions
I sit and write amid trash and crumbs strewn across the table. One child is sedated by a show, one squirms on my lap and the others are outside, finally making their own…
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the fall of summer.
Free I be. Free I give. Unencumbered beauty gazing into the pinked sky. My shoulders give way to the beauty of the sunset. Releasing hot air as my breath enters steady. A cool…
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we will sway but we will not snap.
I said words I knew I didn’t want to say. Hurtful words. Once again doing the same thing I swore I wouldn’t. I just wanted to be mad. And I knew that. But…
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it’s ok.
It’s ok to not always enjoy parenthood. I feel like I see so many blogs today about appreciating all the parts of parenthood, even the difficult ones because soon they will be gone…
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enjoy peace.
The past couple of years at the beginning of the new year I’ve had a word to focus on for that upcoming year. 2013 was contentment and for 2014 I picked peace. When…
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be at ease in 2013 {update}
We’re more than halfway through the year, so how is my “be at ease in 2013” goal working out for me? Well, in a lot of ways, I’ve reduced and simplified my life…
