Move in day was last Friday. Well, technically, I suppose it turned out only to be move out day. At 7am, we picked up the truck, only to realize it was too small. I don’t know who from the UHaul website decided that a 3 bedroom house could fit into a 17′ truck, but it definitely wasn’t [...]
Posts Tagged ‘family’
29 Sep
Dreams Have Value
When my husband and I visited Best Friends Animal Sanctuary earlier in the month, we fell in love with our overnight dog, Julep. We took her on a ride down to Jacob Lake, took her hiking, and had a nice meal on the patio of a local restaurant. Julep was wonderful, and we immediately saw [...]
8 Sep
Who Needs TV?
I had one of the most enjoyable nights I can remember during the recent holiday weekend. It wasn’t anything fancy–my family gathered in the living room with 3 guitars (only two of us could actually play, and of the two of us, only one was good–and that wasn’t me!). We spent the evening playing, singing, laughing. [...]
21 Aug
Counting My Blessings
Today I feel like it’s important to take a moment away from the hustle bustle of my brain and simply be grateful.
-I am grateful for a wonderful summer of closeness with my mom. We’ve had a lot of silly times, serious times, and all around happy times. I’m so grateful to be her daughter.
-I’m grateful [...]
27 Jul
So Lucky
As our week in New Jersey comes to a close, I reflect today on how lucky I am. I married a perfect gentleman, a man with wonderful family values and a heart as big as the sky–and whenever I spend time with his family, especially his parents, I am consistently reminded why he is the [...]
25 Jul
“Married to Amazement”
When it’s over, I want to say: all my life
I was a bride married to amazement.
I was the bridegroom, taking the world into my arms…
I don’t want to end up simply having visited this world.
-Mary Oliver
Today my wonderful family by marriage and I went frolicking through the beautiful countryside of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. I found [...]
24 Jul
Fiddle finagling and farm frenzy
So I pulled out my fiddle this morning to practice, and BOING! My G string, the lowest string, broke. Practice postponed.
This gave me a great excuse to restring both that string and the D string, completing my restringing since nabbing the fiddle at the Pico Blvd. garage sale. I can’t tell you how much better [...]
23 Jul
Simple Fun
Sometimes the way you plan things to turn out just isn’t the way that God wants them to be. That’s okay; the trick of responding faithfully is to figure out a way to be joyful anyway.
Today we had a wonderful day planned with the whole family–parents, sisters, nieces, and aunts–to visit a large sculpture garden. [...]
22 Jul
The Value of a Mentor
A continual lesson in my life seems to be to hold gently the balance between being a gutsy risk taker and a humble apprentice.
Here we are in New Jersey, miles away from our home in California but feeling right at home in the house of my incredible set of in-laws. Robert’s parents really do feel [...]
Just a joyful Catholic girl trying to live as simply and consciously and gratefully as possible in this beautiful, amazing world...and bringing as many as possible along for the ride.