In the Back Yard

tending

caring

trying

watching

working

laughing

pausing

Lingering

One of my favorite things about being at home with Neva and Frances is being able to linger with them.  How sweet to have no particular place to go, sitting together like we do so many mornings over breakfast.  An extra cup of coffee may be poured and, if I'm really lucky, my knitting basket brought to the table for a few quick stitches while Neva finishes up eating and Frances explores the dining room (mostly just Ninja's food bowl) Then we mosey on over to the couch for some morning snuggles and reading. 

We are here, together, and slowly we greet the day.

{ this moment }

{this moment} - A Friday ritual. A single photo - no words - capturing a moment from the week. A simple, special, extraordinary moment. A moment I want to pause, savor and remember.

Visiting

We were really happy to visit with my brother this past weekend, especially since he has been in Peru for the past month and we missed him over Christmas.  I was explaining to Neva that Ryan is my brother and, after thinking she didn't really understand, she looked at me and said, "Mum Mum (my mom) carried Uncle Ryan around when HE was a little baby?"

Here are a few pictures of Robb doing some, um, yardwork.

{ this moment }

{this moment} - A Friday ritual. A single photo - no words - capturing a moment from the week. A simple, special, extraordinary moment. A moment I want to pause, savor and remember.

inspired by soulemama

Three cheers

Well, it's been a month exactly since the last time I saw you here! I can blame it a little on technical difficulties and a lot on the move to our new home. 

So, in this past month we were:

.: celebrating Christmas in the midst of the chaotic move with a few days of peace up at my parents' house...there was much fireside knitting, sipping of wine, holding of children by people other than me, in a word, heaven.

.: packing, packing, packing...unpacking, unpacking, unpacking.

.: somehow finding time to knit, knit, knit.

.: learning to crawl, learning to clap, learning to wave, drawing tons of spiders.

.: painting the new kitchen, or rather, watching my father paint our new kitchen.

.: making a home for our family.

.: stretching out, settling in, breathing a little deeper knowing that we are HERE.

Hip hip Hooray!