30 days of beauty::day four

I've got a long way to go and have been storing up some beauty to share.  Maybe I'll just get back to it.

30 days of beauty::day three

(Books being read in my house... now that is a mess I don't mind.)

30 days of beauty::day two

This beautiful face.  It both fills me with joy and with sadness. 

The little ones bring so much joy.  The cute voices and the things they say.  The little bodies - hands, toes, eyes... 

Sadness because they are growing so fast.  Soon the little voices will be older and their bodies will be bigger.  They become less mine and more their own.  It feels like from the moment they are born I am giving them away.

The key for me is to savor each day.  Kiss those cheeks often and thank my God that He chose to bless me with such wonferful gifts.

30 days of beauty: day one

In the likeness of soulemama and bluebirdbaby and these wonderful ladies, I'm going to get things going with a little bit of ordinary beauty. I've been feeling like I'm over-run lately and I hardly have time to breathe. I'm feeling that there is too much to do and I'm not spending any "real" time with my children. It feels like it is all slipping by and there is too much laundry and dishes and vacuuming and too many "no"s coming from my mouth when I talk to the children.

I'm hoping that if I just stop and look at these pictures that I will see that not all is lost. Not all my time is sucked up in the lost abyss of endless chores. There is beauty and the every day is FULL of it! It really is. This is what God has called me to do and there is always beauty in His will.

(this is our living room after David installed the new floor. the chair is David's from when he was a child.)