Through the Lens Thursday: Box

It’s been a crazy busy week (in a good way!) and I almost forgot what day it was (for the second week in a row. Ahem.) On Sunday, we celebrated my grandpa’s 90th birthday and my grandparents’ 63rd wedding anniversary in the community room after their church service. My […]

Tickled Pink

She watched him dip his long, thin, blond hair in the red liquid, waiting to see what would happen when he pulled it out. They’d been friends since she saw him in 7th period art class in the 9th grade, sitting next to a smaller guy in a black hoodie. […]

Memories Captured: June

Memories Captured is back after a brief hiatus, and it actually inspired me to get out my real camera and, you know….capture some memories.

So far, June has been the month of sword fights on the trampoline.

Dancing and running barefoot in the squishy, soft grass.

Tractors vrooming through the garden.

As many cloudy […]

Detour

Confession: sometimes I just don’t know what to do with the little two while their big brother and sister are in school. When we don’t have anything planned, or any place to go, we often don’t do much. I rarely load them up and take them somewhere….the furthest we usually […]

No Agenda Saturday.

A gorgeous, breezy 79 degrees.

Sunshine draped over soft, green grass.

Dirt full of wiggly surprises.

A plastic house full of nothing but little kids with gigantic imaginations.

A Saturday with nothing better to do than run and play.

Linking up again with Jessica and Natalie for Essence of Now, and Alison and Galit for […]

So It Begins.

Their eyes were big as we pulled into the parking lot. They grabbed their backpacks and held my hands tightly as we walked into the building.

“Can you stay with me?” Henry asks, as we make our way through the gym to the far side where the first graders sat, waiting.

“No, […]