{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.

Summer Solstice Evening!

We had dinner by the sea, and enjoyed the increasing evening light!

I hope your summer started lovely yesterday!!

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Father's Day pictures coming soon!!

A YEAR! Oh my!!

Can you guess what we woke to?

I know it is completely unbelievable, but Leili is a year today!!! HERE is proof! We still have cake to go tonight but here are a few birthday pictures! The customary 1st birthday wake up! She LOVED it!!

Birthday crown and gifts!

Loving her OWN baby (Fern is thankful!)!!

AND... we turned her car seat around to go to church!! She was so excited!!

What a smile! I just LOVE this gal! What a blessing she is!

Retro? Vintage?

Leili is not the only gal running around here in her mama's old clothes!! Here is sweet Fern wearing a couple of my outfits that my mom made me way back when!! :)

Vintage is in, right!?

{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.

Book Review & Another!

So I have been on the waiting list for this one at the library for a while and then finally it was my turn!!! So this is what I read this week (it is pretty short and written well so it only took a couple days)! IT WAS SO GOOD! I think everyone should read it! I wish I could talk several people into reading it, not only because it has really good information but also because I would love to talk to some one about it and have a comrade! So if you read it CALL ME!!! :) This book was so good that I would buy this for our family library.

It has given me new insight and perspective when my kids (particularly Jake, he's more sensitive), have a downward spiraling day. We really truly are what we eat, and let me tell you I don't want to be alot of what is out there!!! So go read it!! :)

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And for the "another", some of my friends are reading Radical Homemakers, at first glimpse I was a little leery of (and the cover art does leave something to be desired) but now after "hearing" some of their discussion and reading the introduction to the book online I AM HOOKED! Now if only my library would have something so... radical, or if it was not a bit of a $$ book! But I WILL READ IT!

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So there is a little food for thought for you all, oh and Dan bought me a book at the used book store - Anna Karenina. I am a little intimidated by it but I am looking forward to it!

{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.

Strawberries!

Ok, Rima won! Her post was up first! :)

My friend Rima was in our neck of the woods and invited us to met her and the girls for a little berry picking!

She is imagining all the yummy-ness!Every one's hands were a little colored!And our tummies a little fuller!

I promise Jake was with us, but he was always about a mile ahead of us! Rima got a shot of him though so scoot over there!!

I have found a couple new blogs to spend time (because I have soooo much extra), reading!! :) With all that has happened over the last few months I have kind of lost my self in the grieving and uproar, I am trying to re-center myself as much as possible in my new (not permanent) surroundings. Not an easy task, but I enjoy seeing how other mamas find the beauty and simplicity in life so one blog is A Non-Disposable Life and the other Plain and Joyful Living. And of course you will find me stopping in on Soule Mama most mornings for just that little bit of beauty and inspiration!