Monthly Archives: April 2010

Moments: the Tearing of Breath

23 April 2010

Six lanes of highway and two kids in the car.  A fat river of cars pushed her along smooth and fast.  They were traveling through Atlanta, the Sun hot overhead, glinting off the cars.
The motorcyclist came so quick and close to her car she nearly swerved, but then he was gone.  If her window had [...]

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Spring Wildflowers by the River

14 April 2010

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Renee found this trout lily for me, and surrounded it with sticks and precious rocks she found in the river so that I could take this picture.
And finding the first Bluets of Spring always thrills me!  Such small and delightful flowers, always blooming in happy bunches.

Ramping up the Joy

9 April 2010

When I started homeschooling McKinley and Renee, my idea was that we would spend a lot of time following our bliss.  I also knew enough from my experience with homeschooling my three older kids that the vision and the reality would not often meet.
But that is changing.   There are a lot of reasons for this, [...]

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Domestic Wednesday

7 April 2010

We had a big spring-cleaning weekend, culminating in an Easter dinner with family and friends. I just love when my house is clean. Today there hasn’t been a lot going on, and so I did a good bit of Etsy shopping and another good bit of house-tending and kitchen craft.
We’ve started eating smoothies [...]

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The ADD Gardener

3 April 2010

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Last week I made my first Spring foray into the garden.  It was a bit intimidating.  Spring weeds sprout quick, and grass is always my main adversary along the edges of my garden.  Besides this, as usual I didn’t do a thorough clean-up of the garden this past Autumn, so there was a lot of [...]

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