- Making it through the busy season! Today marks the completion, and with faces upturned we say thanks!
- Four little cousins four and under.
- Many chances to train.
- Holding my girl Jennika, sweet as a strawberry.
- Splashing in the pool.
- Watching high tide.
- Sliding down the dunes to the Peter Iredale shipwreck.
- Four seals slipping through the waves.
- Splashing in the freezing surf, little ones laughing, delirious joy, oblivious to the cold. Such a picture of the joy-filled life.
- Exploring the Battery Russell … remembering my last visit there, more than 20 years ago. Kids running, wide-eyed, peering in dark, concrete cave-like rooms.
- Peanut butter and jelly sandwiches.
- Crisp Fuji apples.
- Sticky fingers
- Sand in the car, in the rolled-up cuffs of jeans, between the toes.
- Getting dry.
- All sleeping in one room.
- My girl asleep, right here, by my side.
- Being the milkshake they all love to drink.
- Finally, my on-vacation treat: A historical novel. Thank you, Janae!
- Climbing inside, Dominican Republic 1960.
- Afternoons quiet.
- Driving back to teach Bible study, early morning drive along 101. The fog low over the water, the sky cloudless and blue, the sun coming up over the coastrange mountains, blanketed by the fog so thick I could stare straight at the sun. Perfect round, glowing. Sometimes our life’s fog is grace too, yes? So we can actually see His light more clear.
- All around the table.
- Dolce de leche in the coffee.
- Her face when she’s asleep. So perfect.
- Damp curls.
- Swimming with my boy. Holding his torso–trim and muscular. When did he leave toddlerhood behind?
- My nephew Korban, walking to his own beat at all times.
- Kids so brave.
- Making sense.
- Puzzles.
- Tillamook fields.
- Fort Clatsop. Perfect play place.
- Hike down to the water’s edge.
- Four tired cousins all carried back to the car.
- Three pairs of little stinky feet in the backseat.
- Piling in to one car.
- Nehalem Bay stretched out.
- Staying up half the night finishing In the Time of the Butterflies. My only chance to read a novel and I had to see it through!
- Lindt white chocolate.
- Coming home.
- Crackle of the fire.
- House warming up.
- Kids happy in bath.
- Feeling empty, struggling a bit. Long drive provides perfect time for good talk with my man on the way home.
- Coast range.
- Leftovers.
- Popcorn with butter.
- Evaluating.
- Too tired to care much.
- Slipping into sleep.
- Knowing He’s greater, stronger, risen. LORD.
{Happy weekend … and thanks for reading.}