Category: Musings on Life and Beauty

Poppy

Musings on Life and Beauty



It’s been a rough couple of weeks, and I’m feeling down.  In the midst of this, and with the return of rain, my Iceland poppies bloomed.

I’d been watching them, waiting, their reverent heads bowed low and pregnant with petals about to burst forth.  And then they raised their heads and opened.  I went to look.

Unexpectedly, from deep within me came an ache I didn’t know I had.  It was a bittersweet feeling of being lost and found, of losing and finding.  I blinked back tears.

“Hello, old friend,” I whispered.

“I’ve missed you.”


Hopeful Homemaker

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Growing

Musings on Life and Beauty



My little girls are growing up so fast.  It catches me off guard, sometimes, which is why I took these pictures last weekend.  It was just a moment.  I turned around and there they were, standing against an old brick wall, watching me.  They’ve grown.

As I reached for my camera, tears pricked at my eyes.

I wanted so much to experience motherhood as my best self.  Yet here I am in a stage that seems designed only to reveal the worst in me.  It is so humbling.

It’s also sad.  It makes me ache for them.  They deserve so much better.  And I ache for myself, as well.  I wanted more for all of us.

But here we are, growing up anyway.


Will someone please push pause while I collect myself?

HH

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I wish.

Musings on Life and Beauty

Today has been a catch up from behind day, full of emails to teachers regarding make-up work from last week, as well as visits to the doctor for immunizations (21 shots, all together, for 7th grade, kindergarten, and the little girls).  We’ve spent time on the phone, time in the car, time with the calendar trying to work everything out for the insane month of May.

This is what I wish I’d been doing instead.  (Notice I didn’t write should .  I should have been doing laundry.)

I wish I’d made one of these wreaths :


and I wish I’d ordered one of these trash cans for our kitchen.  Mine has seen better days.

I wish I’d tried this recipe out for a Family Night treat:


I’m craving lemon.

And speaking of shopping and baking, I am totally in love with these cake stands .

I’ve had this tutorial sitting open on my desktop for more than a week.  I wish I had time to try it.  Along with finishing all the other ridiculous projects I accumulate.

But it’s raining.  And it’s Monday.  So we’ll be doing homework.

And that’s ok.  The above list is just stuff.  Trying to motivate 5 children to get caught up on homework is what life is really all about.  Sort of.  Or at least, I hope so.  ‘Cause that’s what I’m doing!

Hopeful Homework… I mean, Homemaker.

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