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We drive all over this county in North Carolina looking for home.  We pass over subdivisions and town, craving country space with a powerful thirst.  via Out the window is rolling green pasture and spring in every sense of the word.  Magnolias and grass a vibrant green.  Above all it is rolling, rolling, gentle and…

 via I wrote some months ago about our decision to sell the dream house (“the New Old House“) we built in Indiana in order to spend our summers on the beach in Michigan and the rest of the year in North Carolina near family.  For reasons that I guess you will just have to trust…

 It is said that it is the nature of Grace to fill the places that have been empty.  On the canvas of my life this living Grace breathed mercy and, in early January, He drew a second line. And now I am the mother of two. Two! My second babe is the size of a…

I have very few good pictures of Wynn and I together.  I am sure that all the mamas reading this can relate.  I have LOTS of great pictures of Wynn with his daddy.  I have lots of great pictures of Wynn on his own. {I am the one after all who invested lots of time…

I seriously love the look of family photos printed on canvas.  Canvas is classic, beautiful and artful.  No expensive framing needed, canvas is, in my opinion, a standout on its own with simple clean lines.  I received the best early Christmas present when a company called Easy Canvas Prints contacted me several weeks ago asking…

Bring us your heavenly peace. and blanket us in the beauty of the Christ child. Sing over us your silent nights. Usher into our hearts the sacred Trinity. A standing ovation, Mr. December.  Yours are the days of holy wonder.

After seven weeks away, we finally arrived back at the beach cottage this week!  We are settling in and preparing for a white Christmas.  {Are there any two words more lovely than “white Christmas?”}  We had so much fun in North Carolina, but it is so good to be home!  Was everything this beautiful when…

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{With thanksgiving for all the beautiful things!}

It isn’t very often that you see the job of  mother and homemaker portrayed in such a beautiful {glamorous} light.  And yet it is a dream job, where the end of the day yields love, sticky hugs and innocent adoration- outweighing the frustrations and the mundane. For that reason I fell in love with these…