this moment ::

Inspired by Soulemama's {This Moment}

{this moment} - a friday ritual. A single photo - no words - capturing a moment from my week. A want to pause and savor this moment.

Summer is :: 9

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Summer is :: the promise of jam making

Everyone's favorite - Blueberry Jam. With a second trip out to the local blueberry farm, I had just enough to make jam. Mmm it's so good. We've been enjoying it at night for dessert on toast. What a great excuse to make some homemade bread this weekend with this book.

Summer is :: 8

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Summer is :: Early morning art making

This morning I got to experience a little bit of bliss watching my two girls sit outside on the ground while it was cool and "make" for an hour. I was busy inside, but the quiet allowed me to take a breath before my day got rolling at normal "top" speed. It was an amazing way to start our day.

Summer is :: 7

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summer is :: late afternoon harvesting

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Summer is :: 6

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Summer is :: growing corn right in our backyard

On the end of our garden that gets the most sun, we planted 2 rows of corn - organic silver queen. We watched as they came up, careful to replant any seeds that didn't germinate, fascinated by how big the stalks grew while we were away in Dallas earlier this summer, thankful for how well our corn has grown in our ground, in our very first garden, new to all of this but very excited about what we're learning. Tonight we picked our first couple of mature corns and we were delighted at what we found inside, beautiful white plump kernels. We are already talking of expanding our garden for this fall and next year and excited at what is to come! Feeding our family has become my passion, we are starting out small, but hopeful our return will be big in years to come!

Summer is :: 5

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Summer is :: frying squash

As I was planning dinner late this afternoon it hit me how much I love to fry up seasonal squash, which is pretty plentiful around where we are these days. So tonight as I was enjoying making our dinner feast, I grabbed my camera to capture some of what we ate tonight, fried squash. It's easy to cook up {quite therapeutic I think} and so tasty.

Seeing Green

I'm seeing a little bit of familiar in everything I do these days. G R E E N. It's everywhere I look. It's in my garden, my drink, my meals, and in my quilting. I've started a long project that's due just around the time of Lena's birthday this fall. I fell in love with this concept of quilting last Fall when I made this table runner. For me the hardest part of getting started is completing the first square. I get stumped toward the end, but with one square now out of the way, it should be smooth sailing. It was interesting how the color I didn't realize was there all along turned out to be the most predominant color. As I kept looking through my stash of fabrics, I saw more and more of it. The color green. I love it so!

this moment ::

Inspired by Soulemama's {This Moment}

{this moment} - a friday ritual. A single photo - no words - capturing a moment from my week. I want to pause and savor this moment!

We're back

We're back, we've been back actually for almost two weeks, and I've been too busy to fill you all in on everything. We got released from the Dallas hospital Friday, July 1st, drove straight to the Dallas/Fort Worth Airport and waited over two hours for our plane to arrive that was late and thus changed the course of the rest of our trip. But we made it home, finally around 7:00pm that evening.

These pics were from the last couple of days we spent in the PICU when she still had a lot of swelling around her eyes.

It was amazing seeing her "look" transform right in front of our eyes a little each day. She still has a little swelling around her head, but she really looks great. More importantly, as much as we hated the fact that she got prescribed a trach, it really has been the best thing for her. She breathes so much better at night. Her daytime activity has really picked up and her development will be accellerating rapidly.

Yep, it does feel good to be at home doesn't it, Rosie!?