Sonlight Garden

{pretty, happy, funny, real}

 

The weather has been, well, almost balmy here in Kentucky. The day before this park day was absolutely beautiful. (Sunny, high 50's, blue skies) So, that day I declared to my cooped up kids, "Tomorrow, we are going to the park to have a picnic."  Cheers erupted. However, that next day we woke to gray skies and a cold breeze. I was hoping they would forget my declaration from the day before. Not a chance.

pretty

My pretty wind-blown little girls.

happy

happy kids playing at the park

funny

Catherine taking pictures of her mama. It looks like I am blessing myself. Ha.

real

After playing on the playground we decided to head out onto some paths that the park has. We came to a little stream right in the middle of our path. We could have turned back, but it was so touching and, well, inspiring to see my guys problem solve and help each other across the muddy stream. And besides, we couldn't pass up an adventure.

While Mary Jane was helping John Paul across the "raging river" all he could say was "Let's just go back to the playground guys!"

At one point one of his siblings said, "John Paul, you're not going to die! The worst thing that could happen is you fall and get all muddy."

As soon as John Paul's feet hit the shore he yelled, "Yeah!" Which caused us all to bust out laughing.

Real is the mud I have been cleaning off of all of the shoes and clothes.

~ Capturing the context of contentment in everyday life ~
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{pretty, happy, funny, real}

 

~ Capturing the context of contentment in everyday life ~

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Pretty

To my regular readers, I know I just posted this picture. But this picture so fits into the "pretty" category. My beautiful daughters!!

 

Happy

Our garden this year. We are currently living in a rental home until our home in Florida sells. We have always had a garden. It was hard leaving all of those garden beds back home. We so badly missed gardening and growing some of our own food and knew that we needed, to do something this year. So in order to not tear up our landlord's yard we started a container garden. Terry made a few self watering containers out of bins and then we found some pre-made containers at Wal-mart. Everything is growing great right on the back deck!

Funny

All this little 2 year old guy wants to do is swim. He asks constantly "We goin wimmin now?" And after he gets dressed in the morning the first thing he does is put on his floaties. And wears them all day until we do actually go to the pool. Eating is particularly amusing. Cracks me up!

Real

This is the office. This summer I plan to empty these shelves, purge and get some sense of order in here. I refuse to buy any new items for next year's school year until this is done. (sigh) Can you say clutter?