SCHOOL GIRLS

August 2013

  Chris has been heading out to North Dakota to help out the Coborns store by the oil fields.  He leaves and Lacey and Nola Jean head to Foley.
This is one of the first trips right before school started.
Nola and Jordyn went to Mrs. Harren's class and learned some of the greatest lessons in life.
You pack up your goods into a school bag, button your sweater,
take your friends hand,
and head out in to the world with a smile on your face.

3 X 3 = 9

Becker community center Sept 2013

camp dells 2013

Paul Bunyon 2013, Conner - Chris - Jordyn

Mantolello community center October 2013

women united 2013

camp dells 2013

Clear Water 2013

soccer camp 2013

soccer camp 2013

MotelWinter 2005

Becker community center September 2013

3x3=9

The number three keeps coming up in my life.  I know we have talked about it many times before - and here it is again!
Lord,
I pray that each will know what you made them to be.  That they would not try to be who they are not or desire to be someone else.  Pour out your Holy Spirit upon each on here this day, annoint them for all that You've called them to be and everything you want them to do.  Deliver them from any evel and keep them on the path in which You created them for.  May the fruits of the Spirit (LOVE, JOY, PEACE, PATIENCE, KINDNESS, GOODNESS, FAITHFULNESS, GENTLENESS, AND SELF-CONTROL)  grow in them daily.  I pray that they will understand that it is You "who has saved us and called us with a holy calling, not according to our works, but according to His own purpose and grace which was given to us in Christ Jesus before time began" (2Timothy 1:9).
Oh how I love these groups of three!
Amen!

Harvest fest 2013

They are coming in...
pictures,
calls,
they are carving their pumpkins.
Getting ready for the Harvest fest.
Putting on costumes of something they long to be,
knowing that God made them special just as they are.
They gently clean out all the seeds and slush from the inside,
  Jesus does the same for us -
and after He does,
He puts His light in us so others can see the way.

A pocket full of love

This is the smile that has made her famous.
Straight across,
looking as though she has something saved in her cheeks.
And on this day,
I picture a pocket full of love sent out to Blaine and caught by our Cassie Grace.

Heart beats

My heart skips a beat as I remember holding her for this moment.
Little vintage dress on that Minerva had given me long ago...
curls pinned back with a vintage clip.
And her momma shares Nolaisms with me quite often...
I love those moments also as my heart skips to the sound of her voice...
"oh phew, another skunk farted"
"and skunks don't have hands, they are not humans, they can't read magazines"
"you can't see after the sun goes down, when it's dark. But on Halloween, you can't see until it's dark. If it's light out then you can't see on Halloween when you go trick or treating."
"can my cousins come to the Arli-Dazzle parade this time" (she remembers??)
"Jordyn is my friend"
"mom, I told you not to pick me up, I am staying here"
"sugar makes your tummy do bad things, it is not good for little girls or you"
"first we will go for a walk, then you will get ready for bed, then you will get a rubsage"
and so it goes...
the beautiful words of little ones
reminding you that your heart is where it belongs

Memories

I believe the beauty of this picture,
the memory of these flowers...
will get me through many a winters night.
As we let the ground rest...
waiting for new seeds to be planted
in the spring soil.

The town rooster

As he struts his stuff around the Hacker farm...
we contemplate his life.
He probably isn't that old, but he has a crow that out does most.
And early this morning as he sat on the roof of the house and cockadoole dooed...
Carol woke well before dawn with this thought...
I wonder what life on the farm would be like...
if this fancy pants rooster were to move to town?