My daughters and I pulled in at Michelle’s house before she arrived. We knew we were welcome to go on in. By the time I wrangled with my couple of bags, the girls had already run inside. I entered the front door, set down my things, and walked into the kitchen. This picture is what…
Tag: blessing
Wake Up and Make Things
It is early morning. I stole away from the nursing baby and am sitting in my little quiet corner of the world, on my back-deck, surrounded by potted plants and birdsong. I am writing and contemplating my messy life. I am a homeschooling mother of seven children. My husband and I have a home business…
Nightmares, Morning Sickness, and Miracles Again (The Anniversary of the Day That Changed Our Life)
I can’t let this day go by without mentioning that it was one year ago today that started a series of events that has totally changed our lives. I had just found out I was pregnant with our fourth child, we were at the close of an especially hard summer financially, and I was just…
The Daily Turn #15: Sunflower
of courseit could mean only this:we need to clean the guttersof our house. But we both felt–upon seeing thestraight, strong stalkof a sunflowerstretching upfrom the rootsdug deep intothe ditch-bank-edgeof our roof(two-stories high)–that it wasa blessing,a definite metaphorfor something better.