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    Merry Christmas!

    December 25, 2013

    Our Christmas decorations eventually made their way out. Wishing you and yours a merriest of Christmases! chandeleirdining wall quiet treetable candlesnativity

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  • Love on your teens. No matter what. No matter how many times they give you the side eye when you are "embarrassing" them with how much you love them. They need it, desperately, but they'll never come right out and say it. And they eat those 'embarrassing' moments right up, and it soaks deep to their roots. Just love. Love and lots of prayer. That's all the parenting advice I'll ever give. 💕🙏
  • I found this in an old sketchbook yesterday. Grief brings such strange gifts. I’ve been thinking a lot about this concept lately. So many near me have lost loved ones just in one short month. I’m coming up on a year after a profound loss, myself. It hurts like hell, but in the wreckage of it all, there are new horizons. We rise. (A slightly different entry for Wordfull Wednesday.) #aotecommonplace
  • I think sometimes I get so focused on the stress of homeschooling that I forget what a gift it is. Today is my craziest day of the week- I have multiple children who have multiple physical and occupational appointments- and we spend all afternoon in the car. But we can just pick up and go and keep right on learning. We can make space for their medical needs across the weeks and months without losing time to learn. And learning is a comfort to my sickest one; it's something that is 'his'. Something he can control. Something he excels at. It stays 'done' and with him even when his body is betraying him yet again. I can't even imagine him in a traditional school setting with all his needs...may I not take this gift of time with him (and all my other children) for granted.
  • I was sitting in a car yesterday, having a somewhat uncomfortable conversation, trying to wrap my mind around something, and I found myself looking out on this scene. I kept drinking in the beauty of it, the way the sun was kissing the ends of the evergreens, which were so tall and so many shades of green they were almost blue. The way that one tall skeleton of a tree stood. You can't quite tell it here but the valley drops away just behind those trees, and you're only seeing about half of that tree. And the next hill beyond and the Appalachians behind...I just drank it all in. The beauty of it helped me calm down, helped me to breathe, helped me to think. Later, my family and I turned on One Strange Rock with Will Smith on the Nat Geo channel. We were just taken away with the awe and wonder of how oxygen is formed on our planet, listening to the astronauts speak. One of the things they all said was, you take for granted this process, but when you see it from space, you suddenly realize how amazing and how precarious this process is. Even later still, my husband and I got into a deep conversation about a community we care deeply about. We mentioned how people were taking each other for granted, not really seeing each other, and how profound some of the damage was. How could we be peacemakers? What is our role in this process of healing? All three experiences yesterday brought to mind, again, of @iamfujimura treatise on 'culture care'...this idea that people of faith are charged with the stewardship of culture...to care for it, to be peacemakers...to see it as it really is... beautiful and strange, precarious and wonderful. Let me not forget this, Lord. Help me to see. Let me not take for granted each breath You have given us all.
  • Week 2 of @the_little_oak_learning 52 species project. I found this one super hard to get 'right', and then I remembered how I adored the one my littlest, Elliana, drew, that was almost Technicolor in its prismatic-ness, and I took a deep breath and just had fun. Alas, I can't put my hands on her drawing- I probably filed it since it was last semesters' work for them. It was so fun and amazing looking. This was drawn in Procreate and then printed out. 😊 . . . . . #52species #aote52 #motherartist #maketimeforart #wearethemakers
  • I’ve always loved this quote. I feel I need to hear it more and more these days. How quickly we all seem to forget. Choose kindness today, dear ones. {Wordfull Wednesday} . . . . #aotecommonplace
  • The kids and I have really been enjoying this book we found at the library. We have had lots of lovely conversation about community and food and, and, and. Definitely worth finding at your own library! I have a feeling this one will land on our 'to buy' wish list, which is solely populated with library books we check out so many times we dogear the library copy. 😬☺️
  • Deep quiet breaths as the week begins.
  • My godmama gave me these beautiful letterpress prayer cards from @poustiniapress for Christmas. In the toss up between not saying prayers because the prayer book is missing (again), (little hands), and actually saying prayers, these little cards have definitely shifted the balance. They are so lovely and useful. . . . #astillsmallpoint #orthodoxchristian #iconography #thelittlechurch
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