Brown Paper Packages

my valentine boy

Gifts of love from my boy. 

 

{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.

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To snow!

mindset for moms

The author of one of my favorite books, Steady Days, A Journey Toward Professional, Intentional Motherhood, has written another book, Mindset for Moms.  You ought to check it out!  

"snow, snow!", said Froggy . . .

. . . "I want to play in the snow!" 

Well, no one forgot their underwear around here (thankfully) but we were certainly as excited as Froggy about finally getting some snow this winter! 

(Go ahead, ask me how many times I've read that book the last two weeks.  Like, no fewer than 87 bazillion.  And that's the honest truth.)

soccer entertainment

For some reason this winter, it's been warm.  Really warm.  And since it was warm, we found some new front yard entertainment! 

Then, when the excitement of kicking around a ball and running around the yard has sufficiently tripped your trigger . . .

You make a house!  Reporting from 65 degrees in January, over and out. 

 

back in the saddle again

It's been a while, winter and all.  This week we had the most beautiful weather and it was time to revisit one of August's favorite places.  He and Keesha (his horse) are fast friends and I can't think of too much he likes better than riding up there in that saddle and just spending time with the horses.  What a good way to spend a warm February afternoon.

 

 

 

a birthday poem

I celebrated a special day,

In January (not the month of May).

Every year, my cake I share,

I know not why I have alfalfa hair. 

 

The end. 

 

 

breakfast

Nothing too exciting.  Just a little breakfast baking in the early morning.  Nightgown girl in position for stirring.   Boy in the tractor p.j.s manning the melting. 

Mama, overseeing the operations and in awe of the fact that there was no bickering or arguing, and even no fighting over the spoon.  Really. 

It was a nice, peaceful breakfast of 'nilla bars and milk.  Yum. 

pedalin'

There's a new cyclist in town.  Guess whose legs are finally long enough to make that little red tricyle toodle up and down the road?

Yep.  You guessed it.  Ruby Eva. "I'm doing it.  I'm doing it!!  Riding a bike feels funny!"

And down the road we go.

 

happy new year

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Best wishes for a beautiful new year!