And oh I’ve been getting up earlier than the kidlet and official teen and older teens. Savoring that quiet time... Read more →

It's our Family Word Of The Year. (Each person in our family is also welcome/encouraged to choose their own, private... Read more →

Learning To Breath Through My Eyelids {Day 8} & another recipe So I am in the midst of this 31... Read more →

Dear Jesus This is (some of) what’s been in the back of my mind this week: I have not finished... Read more →

Ah it's Monday Gratitudes. I missed last week becasue I have been MIA from Its Own Sweet Will for a... Read more →

Five Gratitudes for Monday, March 10, 2014 Camping Sod Memories of lil' guys. More memories of lil' guys. Game time!... Read more →

The days are growing longer. The sun is returning bit by bit and I am Right Here in the very... Read more →

Welcome February. Month of snow (I hope), cold winds, fires in the woodstove, savoury meals from the slow cooker, crusty... Read more →

of Gratitudes for this final Monday of January {Can you believe it? I’m having a hard time with it myself.}... Read more →

Lately... I've been thinking And... I've been trying my best to get this dawg to just sit down and obey... Read more →

~ Heated rice bags, warm clothes, electric heaters. The inversion in the valley is horrible today - it's even fogging... Read more →

Five Gratitudes for this first Monday of 2014. ~The finding of yet more wood for the woodstove. {Bwah hah...I just... Read more →

Graces throughout the year. Small Blessings. Rich and spicy, homey smell of apple butter. The obnoxious clanging of that vintage... Read more →

New Year's Eve. At Witt's End New Year's Eve means it's time for the.... Yahoo Feast! This is an entirely... Read more →

This final day of 2013 will be (Heaven willing and yes indeed I do touch wood!) peaceful and filled with... Read more →

What's in our Reading Basket this month..... The Cricket On The Hearth We'll be beginning this within the next day... Read more →

FOR TODAY December 19, 2013 Outside my window...everything is covered in mounds of lovely white snow. And it’s cold. And... Read more →

More Favorite Christmas Music, & a Favorite Old Movie as well! Meet Me In St. Louis It's approaching all too... Read more →

Remember this one? Watch it again and listen to this song... "Just like love you know he's there, Waiting to... Read more →

Today's Music Selection can be found right here: Christmas Music, 2011. I love listening to this still. Give it a... Read more →

I do believe this is my very most favorite Christmas song. {Well, along with O Holy Night.} And this woman's... Read more →

Christmas Song for December 3: Not actually a Christmas song. Or is it???? Listen and decide. {And you can find... Read more →

Admittedly, this one's kinda a weird choice - but really who does't like the Ramones?? {And don't 'cha think more... Read more →

ChristmasTide is upon us. And my calendar is filling fast. Something I find both delightful and stressful. Yes Thanksgiving was... Read more →

Is this one.... The Christmas Mystery by Jostein Gaarder a lovely, magical story following the journey of a little girl... Read more →

My screen saver is a photo of a little, green, smiling Buddha. His presence is supposed to remind me to... Read more →

This has long been one of my favorite traditional Christmas Carols; I've read it dates from 1760. {Anyone know for... Read more →

My back is still numb and sore, (dang vertebrae!), but my second (or perhaps third) favorite month of November is... Read more →

So he came home. And the breakfast room table, which has been his desk off and on for some time,... Read more →

Some days even I forget. I fear there were even some years during which I’d forgotten, (lost along the Wilderness... Read more →

Oddly enough, mine is not a picture perfect life. And I have no plethora of beautifully arranged photos to post... Read more →

Day 15 of 31 Days of Home & Family Culture {Check out the Entire Series Right Here} I have been... Read more →

{Day 12} of Find every single day Right Here! Seasons And the seasons move and we move with them. It’s... Read more →

31 Days of Home & Family Culture {Day 10} ~A Renaissance Man should be able to do the following things~... Read more →

Many Quaker Meetings use the anagram S.P.I.C.E.S. to help children (and everyone else!) remember important Quaker Values. So no I... Read more →

I have been engulfed within a whirl of Out Weeks. Out Weeks: filled with Out Days. Days spent bouncing from... Read more →

31 Days of Home & Family Culture Introduction Day 1: This Future Is Weird Day 2: Organization for the {Temporarily}... Read more →

Listening to this = Soul Nourishment. Living that Spirituality Realm! Mary you’re covered in roses, you’re covered in ashes You’re... Read more →

Farewell August And your too hot weather. And your lone camping trip (I believe this is unprecedented). And your silly... Read more →

~~Part of The 7 Realms series~~ Social/Fellowship Ideas Other Than Bookgroup. {Part II of a Why I’m Sick of BookGroup:... Read more →

Last summer was weird because we didn’t actually go on vacation. Of course we went camping. And fishing. And out... Read more →

Beginning those Weekly Goals in each of the Seven Realms..... Week 29, 2013 {July 15-21} Physical….to keep on the treadmill... Read more →

This week I’m beginning something new: Switching to a weekly calendar and setting weekly goals in each of the Seven... Read more →

In between… The spaces; images move which only I can see. They flutter and reel, undulating like those hills over... Read more →

I’ve been thinking a lot, and talking a bit, about Stretching Myself. Sticking a timid toe outta that comfort zone.... Read more →

This is harder to do than it sounds, don’t you think? We all begin with good intentions, usually at some... Read more →

~Monday Morning Gratitudes~ ~The dryer works (touch wood). Yes it squeaks horribly, but it works! ~All this loverly rain. (I’m... Read more →

I saw this quote on Pinterest (but naturally...), and I liked it. Until I thought a bit more about the... Read more →

This one graduates from University tomorrow. With a B.S. in Political Science and a Business Minor. We are happy, and... Read more →

The Seeker I have been re-reading Clarissa Pinkola Estés Women Who Run With The Wolves. And I must admit I... Read more →