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.

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.

From the kitchen to the table ::

I hope your Thanksgiving, in whichever way you celebrate it and with whomever you celebrate it with this week, is full of memories made.

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.

this little corner

In this simple little corner of our dining room sits a chair, side table, and season book basket. In the basket are a good bit of our autumn books along with the books the children have been creating.

They each love to sit and read over their books aloud to me, or quietly to themselves.

As this is our third new reader in the house, it's been quite an exciting last few months as she familiarizes herself with new words. I still do most of the reading with her in the larger picture books, but I know it won't be long before she will be called on to read to her little sister.

{Speaking of her little sister Rosemary, she is recovering well. This has been her most painful surgery yet, as her incision is in the back of her neck, and her bones and muscles are healing from being cut through. Saying all that, she is slowing getting around by crawling and makes more progress each day.}

our evening

This evening, within one small family room of our house there began an escalation of chaos between music practice, homework assignments, and just wanting to be near mommy. It seems that no matter how large our space is, everyone would rather congregate together through all the chaos. I'm not complaining, I am enjoying these days, and evenings, immensely!

savoring fall

Yesterday I took the kids out to our local boat landing nature park to soak in the last few days of our beautiful trees. Once we got back into town on Sunday from last week's trip out to Dallas, I realized quickly that I had missed our "peak week" where the majority of the trees are in full color and full of their magic. So I decided to quickly enjoy and be grateful for what was left and make the best of it.

As we walked around the park, around the river, and through the woods, I savored every spot of color I could take in, knowing only days were left of our fall colors.