Remembering my sister on her birthday.  This bear is one of three matching bears.  All in different colors.  One for myself, and one for each of my sisters - light brown, pink, and dark brown.  Pink "Nicky" bear" was buried with my sister.  My bear is in this photo and he's lit…

" We love because He first loved us. "   1 John 4:19 Taking the time to just create a little something special with the family.  A Valentine brunch with a bunch of little goodies.  We worked together to pull this together.  Husband made the heart waffles, I did the fruit and bacon,  and…

The strange masked faces are part of this little guy's "normal".  I hold him close.  I know of all that "used-to-be" and hope for him to see the smiles behind the masks.   The tears sting my eyes lacking makeup because this capture was unexpected and raw.  He knows me thro…

January blew through!  We had so much going on - painting interior family room, finding our homeschool rhythm, and just living in some historical difficult times.  It's hard to stay on top of everything and just a continued reminder that I have some "things" around me that clutter m…