There seems to be a trend in my knitting these days – I keep running short of yarn. I make sure I have enough based on the yardage requirements for the patterns I’m making, but it isn’t lasting through the whole project; My Moonlight Garden shawl, started in… Read More »Coming up short
“Oh! You’re sitting at the table! Wanna play a game?” It’s pretty much a constant. Anytime this girl sees someone sitting relatively still, and often when they aren’t, she attempts to entice them into “just one quick game”, which, more often than not, turns into more than just… Read More »Card Play
I wrote these first words Monday night: The text came through, “Heading to the birth center”, and my heart leaped for joy and then caught in my throat. My first baby is about to deliver her third baby. My thoughts were such an unruly jumble of a mixture… Read More »Grandbaby the Third – It’s a Boy!
We had a quiet day at home today. No errands to run, no trips into town. Home. I didn’t get everything done that I thought I would, but I spent a beautiful time pushing my youngest son on the swing as he talked to me and told me… Read More »Stillness Found
Once upon a time, there was a young blacksmith. Like many trades, blacksmiths learn more skills throughout all their lives, and so like all blacksmiths, he was still learning his trade, though he was much more at the beginning of the learning than at the ending. One day,… Read More »A Satchel, a Blacksmith and a Story
Yesterday was one of those perfect early fall days. The sun was shining, the skies were blue, the air still warm but drier and crisper than just a couple of weeks ago. We had a few days of being home this weekend and I had caught up on… Read More »Grazing (and appraising the garden space)
I haven’t been home very much these last weeks, so my time for making has been minimal, but I do have one project I’ve been working on. I can’t tell you much about it though, because while I don’t think the recipient it’s intended for reads my blog,… Read More »Making a Secret
(If you follow me on Instagram, you read most of these words last night, but I wanted to share them here as well, and I’ve edited them a bit.) God’s artwork. A soothing and peaceful gift at the end of a day that was a lot harder emotionally… Read More »Breathing Peace
With the heat of the summer moving behind us, Husband The Amazing spent some time working on wrapping up the outside of the kitchen addition. He doesn’t love working with vinyl siding, and while it has its benefits – namely easy maintenance – it is lacking a bit… Read More »Board and Batten and Fairy Houses
Is it possible that he was born only five short years ago? I feel like we’ve known him forever, always a part of us and our family. It’s like that for me with all our children. That feeling that once they arrived, they had always been here. And… Read More »And Then He was Five