these lashes beautiful eggs, fresh from our local farmers’ market   blueberry smoothies, also at the farmers’ market watermelon . . . beginning to taste like summer! peonies from our garden and my bathing beauty Celebrating what is beautiful, this beautiful month of May.

This spring we bought a house in North Carolina. {This is the house we will live in most of the year, still spending our summers in our little old beach cottage.} There are so many things I want to share about this house and the beautiful property on which it sits and how it feels…

Rain, rain and more rain . . . My baby boy on an evening walk with his Grandaddy.   a lovely spring photo shoot with my friends’ two daughters.     Another photo shoot with a friend and her daughter on their new farm in North Carolina.  “There’s no place like home!” Breakfast outdoors with…

On a rainy Sunday afternoon in April, my 3 year-old is especially crabby.  It is the kind of day that, as a mother of young children, you could start to climb the walls.  The rain, the whining, the tears.  So I carry him into the kitchen, set him on the counter and preheat the oven.…

My sweet baby James has a secret admirer. She is 85 years to his 7 months but she is smitten nonetheless.  And knowing his sweet cheeks the way I do, I can scarcely blame her. He is pure, scrumptious delight. So we pick flowers, the first lilacs of the spring. If one wants to bring a friend a…

This sweet little vintage art print sits on baby James’ dresser.   It reads: “Said the Robin to the Sparrow, ‘I should really like to know why these anxious human beings rush about and hurry so.’ Said the Sparrow to the Robin, ‘Friend, I think that it must be that they have no Heavenly Father such…

We bought Wynn a Radio Flyer wagon for his 3rd birthday. He absolutely loves it. When you are 3 years old you have very important things to cart around the yard. Like, for instance, an old plastic watering can. There are many plastic versions of this wagon now available, but I was thrilled to find…

We hosted a family bible study at our house on Friday night- 23 kids, mostly under age 6, and about 20 adults.  We studied Noah’s Ark, which was fitting because it was quite the zoo!   I tried to set a pretty serving table, above.  This of course before it was filled with food! We placed…

“Spring shows what God can do with a drab and dirty world.” -Virgil Kraft {My toddler boy feeding a neighbor’s lamb with a bottle! } If I haven’t mentioned, I adore living in rural North Carolina (where we live September thru May-we are still spending our summers in our beach cottage in Michigan, I know that’s confusing).…

I walk the halls with my baby in the night.  I walk halls where the hardwood floor squeaks and moonlight seeps through the secret words I whisper in his tiny ear.  Mother and child, we walk this hall together, our love thicker than the darkest black of the night sky.  We are unsearchably deep, my boy and me. His sleeper is soft…