Spring!

Greta and I have been enjoying the outdoors every day we can. On sunny days we hang laundry on the clothesline and work in the garden to get it ready for the plants. Last week we filled the birdbaths and leveled the garden beds and pulled the first weeds. We even got the raspberry patch cleaned and thinned. When Caleb comes home in the evening we haul dirt and take walks. Caleb even used his smoker for the first time last Saturday to make the most delicious smoked pork for Resurrection Sunday dinner with our families, and we had our first lunch on the patio.


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A real, live Spring flower!

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When it's time for a snack we come inside and have tea and a quesadilla. :)

rainy afternoon and tea

Beautiful Sunrise

Picture taken by my wonderful man on his way to work last week.

He Is Risen!

::'~ Greta in her bee-yew-tiful new outfit, ready to walk to church with Caleb and me. From yesterday morning. ~'::

evening with dear ones

from 3.27.10

little person

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We're listening to audio of The Wind in the Willows this morning and waiting for the sun to warm up the outdoors just a little bit more so we can go out for a bit. Greta is "cooking" and trying on different sweaters and hats and pairs of shoes and drawing. ~'::

a clean silverware drawer

evening

around my home:
pizza crust, hook-work
delicious reading, oatmeal

happiest of tablecloths

New this morning from wally...such loveliness. Spill-proof too. :)

And my blue and green and yellow candles.

Spring colors and twinkling flames for March weeks of thawing and fog and rain.

(I can upload pictures from the couch with our laptop now... isn't that fun?)

spices

My beans were delicious this noon. ~'*

::'~ 2 years old ~'::

We're so thankful for our girl!

Afternoon birthday tea
with Mimi and Pa, Livi and Ben
and Auntie's pumpkin muffins
::Reading her new story, Miss Rumphius, with Pa and wearing her birthday dress::

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Chocolate bundt cake with the fluffiest pink buttercream frosting you ever saw and sprinkles.

~':: Also, her first ever pearly toenails. Sparkle toes. So thrilling!

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Daddy Caleb grilled chicken for supper with Grandpa and Grandma, Ana, Leah and Ethan.

This morning Greta is sporting her lovely new flowery umbrella and galoshes. I sang a bit of "Singing in the Rain" for her, and now she goes around the house dancing with her umbrella and singing her translation of it, "In a rain is a song, in a rain is a song!" Today is appropriately rainy, though we are not actually out in it. :)

winter days' occupation

Using extra energy on these house-bound days to make something lovely out of my crochet thread collection. I have been having great relaxed fun making each doily up as I go and not bothering with patterns. They'll need to be blocked yet, but are making me happy. Old fashioned and simple.

Saturday night veggie pizza ~'::

...and a movie, with siblings over :)

For My Sinful Coldness, Too

"The bitterness of death to Him is the very fountain of the sweetness of life to us."

In case you don't already go there, here is a link to Rebecca Writes' post of a March 3rd devotional from the book Opened Treasureswritten by Frances Ridley Havergal. It is beautiful!
I think of Frances as your friend, Livi, since you've read her biography. I don't know much about her, but I would like to.

Rebecca also wrote a brief biographical sketch of Frances' life for us in this recent post, "The Other Fanny". Enjoy.