the Thursday 13 – We have tadpoles!

After a whole lot of searching, poking through streams and ponds and bogs – we found some! Tadpoles! An older boy at the park helped Maya with the capture, reminding her that you kind of have to keep them in water – not hold them in the cupped palm of your hand….

1. How [...]

Word Filled Wednesday – Finding Home

This is a picture I took on our Saturday walk. It’s a view of the waterfall outside the senior housing complex where we are waiting, hoping, praying for an apartment to become available.
The apartment complex is actually a renovated mill, built in the mid 1800’s – the waterfall and the river that flows over and [...]

In Other Words…

Deborah, this week’s hostess of “In Other Words” offered this verse as her response to a quote from C.S. Lewis.
‘Then He (Jesus) said to them all, ” If anyone desires to come after Me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross daily”, and follow Me.’ Luke 9:23 (NKJV)
or (in other words)
‘Then he said [...]

The Simple Woman’s Daybook for Monday, May 25

Outside my window… the weather could not be more beautiful. Sunny and clear and just the right temperature.
I am thinking… that I have a lot of good things to look forward to.
I am thankful for… the awareness that I have a lot of good things to look forward to.
From the learning rooms… polliwogs and tadpoles [...]

A Quiet Observance of Memorial Day

Celebrated in most states on the last Monday in May, Memorial Day is a time to remember the U.S. men and woman who lost their lives serving their country. Originally known as Decoration Day, it was established in 1868 to commemorate the dead from the Civil War. Over the years it came to serve as [...]

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