Do Fairies Eat?

She pondered it outloud, not really asking me for an answer. "Do fairies eat?"

"Some people say that butterflies are kinda like fairies and butterflies do indeed eat," I told her.

She fluttered to my side, looking every bit like a fairy, and gazed up at me as only a 6 year old daughter can. She asked, "Fairies aren't real, are they?" *sigh* What's a mom to say? "I think it would be great fun if they were real but, No they aren't. But Angels are real and the Bible says that sometimes we entertain angels unaware so maybe sometimes we have some garden angels."

As the afternoon sun was cooling and I was noticing the weeds, I found a little scrap of paper tucked into the flower pot...

Piece by Piece

I know I've mentioned before that my table settings lean toward hodge podge & mish mash but this is the one set that I've collected piece by piece. About 15 years ago my son and I were living on our own and didn't have a dime to spare. One afternoon we stopped at a Goodwill and I fell in love with this old Wedgewood pattern. It was only two cups and two saucers and they were $5, which was more than I could afford if I wanted to get the shorts my boy needed for Summer. We passed them up but a week later he stopped back in with his grandma and bought them for me. That darling boy has picked up all these pieces for me one by one over the last several years. They aren't all Wedgewood but it's ok because the only label I need is a post-it note marked, "Found another one Mom..."

Old Time Colors

It's been so windy here the last few days that my back porch is in shambles. As I was picking up, the pile on the chair caught my eye. I forgot how much I love the colors of Summer!

Thank you, Father, for being an artist!

Hoping you have a beautifully creative Tuesday.

June Afternoon

Right up there with catching fireflies, swimming at dusk & watermelon parties with the neighbors. Thank God for sweet June afternoons!

By some miracle I'm adjusting to parenting an "adult" whilst enjoying innocent fun with the younger ones. One of you commented that no one warns us about the terrible 20's and I had to laugh because it's so true. One of you commented that having a child that is able to be independant is far better than one that will never be independant. I was humbled because it's so true.

My friends mom gave me a verse... If anyone sees his brother (or child) commit a sin that does not lead to death, he should pray and God will give him life. (1 John 5). She reminded me of when I was 18 and making wrong choices. She told me that these were the verses that she prayed for her daughter while that daughter was making wrong choices with me.

It wasn't all about us girls either. That mom grew spiritually during the time those two young girls were walking away from God, moving into a yucky apartment, hanging out with the wrong boys... and getting pregnant. Twenty years later, we are both following the Lord and married to Godly men.

I'm learning to pray God's promises

"Pray and God will give him (or her) Life"

Crazy Lovely

Our house is filled to overflowing with kids!

My sister and her 5 children are back in town indefinitely and you would think that my kids have been estranged from any child their own age. Between my 4, my sisters 5 and my mom's 3 (mom & dad adopted kids that are the ages of our children), it's the most lovely kind of craziness!