after the rain

don't you love it how after the rain

everything seems so clean and green.

it is as if the whole world has had a bath.

enjoying GOD's providence

...how happy we are to be thus constrained

and held short by our heavenly Guardian!

And what we are to do is quite certainly nothing

more than we are already doing,

which is to adore the lovable providence of GOD

and to throw ourselves into His arms and into His keeping.

~St. Francis de Sales

our sky

this was our sky today.

how was your sky?

the employees at the starbucks in my front yard called me out to look at our sky whilst they worked away making wheatgrass tea and smoothies.

i love this starbucks because they don't care about things like "no shoes, no service",

they appear to be faithful Catholics, after all, they have a statue of St. Joseph and the Child Jesus right in their store, they use all natural ingredients, they care enough about the environment to share a moment such as this with me, their most loyal customer and best of all, their drinks are free!

p.s. juli, maybe tomorrow i'll try to answer your question,

"what kind of homeschooler am i?"........

(i think she is trying to interview me in a roundabout way=)

DIVINE artwork

saturday afternoon drive

wordless wednesday

i have seen this post title around the web and hope no one minds that i am borrowing it!

today was all orange

i don't know why some days i notice certain colors more than others, but i do and today there was a lot of orange. and some yellow of course. there is always yellow because, well, because it is my favorite color.

blurs and stills

do you ever feel like the simply beautiful moments in your life

sometimes happen so fast that you couldn't even catch them if you tried?

yesterday held many beautiful moments for me.

here are a few things that wouldn't stand still ..............

and here are a few things that did.............

wilbur lives next door

our neighbors just got 4 baby pigs and they are sooooo cute.

we love to go outside and watch them run around and play.

this one likes to dig in the dirt and we laugh because he gets the dirtiest little face!

their barn is not quite as big as the zuckermans' but we imagine that there are most definitely some spiders living in it who just might be able to spin some pretty magnificent webs!

littlest son thinks possibly even spiderman lives there? go figure!

a walk in the forest

during a trip to the mountains yesterday,

my little girl and i went for a walk in the forest together

we went to the end of the road

and these are some of the beautiful things we saw..........