tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-216050522024-03-14T01:49:04.773-07:00We Are Family...Sandeehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18234324593027826036noreply@blogger.comBlogger947125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21605052.post-23401059594112307262014-09-03T09:57:00.002-07:002014-09-03T09:57:54.475-07:00Killer game....
I wish I had some picture to share, but it was a killer basketball game last night.
Double overtime and they won by 1! Yea! Nick made the first basket and played intensely leaving it all on the court...I lost track of the baskets he made. Tad is an eighth grader getting to play with the BIG guys now....and he got a 3 pointer and a 2 pointer last night in the little Sandeehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18234324593027826036noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21605052.post-1265151787131035602014-09-02T12:10:00.000-07:002014-09-02T12:10:11.668-07:00Hello September
September 2nd.
No crisp mornings (yet)
No swirling leaves or need for sweaters...the weather thinks it is still summer...
but it's not...
at least not in my mind as I packed up four kiddos for their first day of school.
a little different this year....
they packed their own lunches, picked out their first day outfits (except for the littlest one, I can influence her still) Sandeehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18234324593027826036noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21605052.post-70015212562642294172014-01-22T16:03:00.001-08:002014-01-22T16:03:25.135-08:00What I've been watching this "winter"...What have eye been watching?
My little kindle and I have been snuggle-in-the-bed, under the quilt buddies this winter...using Amazon Prime...I have a few TV series I like to watch, and movies.
I also have some of my "alone" time going to the movie theatres. It is an escape that helps to just chill and enjoy. I love going by myself. The dark theatre, Sandeehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18234324593027826036noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21605052.post-6302009247858548802014-01-22T14:50:00.001-08:002014-01-22T16:06:50.559-08:00January is here...but winter is no where to be found
Here it is January. No snow, no rain, no need for sweaters...no winter in site. :(
Seeing that fall and then winter are my two favorite seasons (in that order), this camper-ette isn't too thrilled with no winter... really.
But at least we have basketball....
and knitting....
and Pinterest....
and movies.....
:) at least we have that.
I have been doingSandeehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18234324593027826036noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21605052.post-87292052792960779402013-12-03T13:45:00.003-08:002013-12-03T13:45:46.397-08:00
I am weary of facebook. Facebook has made SOO MANY tiresome changes over the past few months that it is practically impossible to connect with who you want to connect with. ALL I ever see is this junk stuff from some place or another that I liked once upon a time.....sigh...so protest protest. :) Perhaps I will return to blogging....and pretend facebook does not exist.&Sandeehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18234324593027826036noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21605052.post-43934190829622107922013-07-19T13:49:00.003-07:002013-07-19T13:49:29.066-07:00Lean in....
Mark said it right.... I read this yesterday on Ann's blog about control freaks...(eh hem...me)...and it so hit the mark...(no pun intended, since it was written by Mark Buchanan) that I had to make this little pic with the quotes.
It is now my desktop background to remind me.
"Here’s what I’ve learned: Every impulse to seize control — is the Holy Spirit’s Sandeehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18234324593027826036noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21605052.post-73659928006532564592013-07-16T10:50:00.000-07:002013-07-16T10:50:25.125-07:00a wounded heart in common
somedays
all a wounded heart can do to keep beating
is read Ann
"That maybe being the mama I want to be isn’t so much about being more, but trusting more – trusting more in the God of Hagar and Ruth and Hannah, the God who sees the angst, who nourishes the empty places, who hears the unspoken cries — and answers. That godly parenting isn’t ultimately about rules — but having a relationshipSandeehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18234324593027826036noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21605052.post-40794142065137435452013-07-12T11:20:00.002-07:002013-07-12T11:21:00.571-07:00the taste of fallit's mid-July, but I tasted fall today...
you know how sometimes a certain smell, or sound, music, or taste, can make you feel like you are in another time...or season?
this morning, as I was walking to my car from starbucks, on the way into work, it was a cool 65 degrees with a breeze, I took a sip of my iced vanilla latte and I felt fall.... almost a skip a heartbeat feeling....
summer Sandeehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18234324593027826036noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21605052.post-34485264409240661562013-06-12T12:16:00.001-07:002013-06-12T12:22:37.926-07:00Art and soul...I never blog anymore...huh?
I know.
I think a lot of things.
I facebook a bit.
But just don't blog ...sigh...
But I wanted to share a couple things. The first is some fun mixed-media Art. Thanks to Cindy Davis, and Dana Regules...for inviting me to an Art night. SUCH therapy and so fun! Cindy runs The Blue Egg Garage...great artistic classes and so much fun.
Sandeehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18234324593027826036noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21605052.post-16077185231745462142013-05-10T11:15:00.002-07:002013-05-10T11:21:15.576-07:00Happy Momma's day, every day....
{something I blogged at work today, so I thought I would post it here too}
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14 years ago I had just returned to work from my first sabbatical and my first baby. My son was 11 months old and as a new, yet older mother (who had been told she would probably never have children) I was thrilled to celebrate my first Mother’s Day as a momma.
My Sandeehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18234324593027826036noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21605052.post-5619242204024840692013-05-09T09:44:00.001-07:002013-05-09T09:47:25.616-07:00sick with heart ache.....open the door wide....
why
why 10 years
why does evil rage
why are people so evil
how do we keep our daughters and sons safe?
how even to pray...when girls are held captive for 10 years......
God where are you?
and all the girls and boys held captive this very moment and we have no clue.....
Oh Lord Jesus..... are we alone in this?
if you ache too, and I know you do, why not stop it?
Sandeehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18234324593027826036noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21605052.post-63951392409390153752013-04-19T13:47:00.002-07:002013-04-19T13:47:40.601-07:00setting free an artful life
Inspiration from: Beth Nicholls
funny self
i did not realize you were so funny, funny thinking about certain things
i wondered
but did not slow down enough to question those funny asumptions tying your feet to the ground
then a spark of wonder, inspiration from here {thank you Kelly, for sharing your story and other possibilitarians...and i see i have some very funny thoughtsSandeehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18234324593027826036noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21605052.post-71898148423968840002013-04-03T11:11:00.000-07:002013-04-03T11:41:10.757-07:00A message to my heart....
Awake, my soul! Awake, harp and lyre! I will awaken the dawn.
Psalm 57:8
When the Lord restored the fortunes of Zion, we were like those who dreamed.
Psalm 126:1
4 months without posting. I was not sure if I would blog again. I had nothing really to talk about. Nothing that facebook snippets would not suffice. Or only Sandeehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18234324593027826036noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21605052.post-3462778559284078622012-12-10T16:04:00.003-08:002012-12-10T16:08:34.619-08:00just one....
My mom is an angel. :) saint.
sweet hearted, God loving, fragile strong woman who I see God's love and life flowing through when she does not even see it herself.
she does this amazing thing, with dad. for dad. (for me too)
she will go to see dad, when he has had a hard night, and is down and crunchy and just heart sunk.
and she (even when she feels Sandeehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18234324593027826036noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21605052.post-89758737328539415952012-12-03T21:42:00.002-08:002012-12-03T21:48:20.085-08:00Christmas is coming tra la tra la
It's that magical time of year again!
ho ho ho
Sandeehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18234324593027826036noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21605052.post-49386543670076900192012-11-26T15:44:00.000-08:002012-11-26T15:44:01.656-08:00learning the new normal
as i sat the thanksgiving table this past week, i realized this was the first time in more years than i can remember that my dad will not be at this table with us. being in a wheel chair and not well, he cannot travel to our home.
so, we traveled to him. I piled all four kids in the car, after we popped the turkey in the oven, loaded with scrabble, Yahtzee, chess and Sandeehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18234324593027826036noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21605052.post-73480403696841692312012-11-20T20:32:00.002-08:002012-11-20T20:32:14.449-08:00look at the calendar...can it really be the end of November...just two days away from turkey day? and no posts in October....
so much has happened in our home and family and life ...and still happening... it is truly a time of change and clinging to God...
each day of this month, I have written a status on facebook of the what I am thankful for...and I will say...each day there is always Sandeehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18234324593027826036noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21605052.post-23637658516986750632012-10-29T11:56:00.001-07:002012-10-29T12:00:01.259-07:00a fun-stuffed weekend...We had a fun-stuffed weekend.... thought I would share a bit....
the joker, Bane and kitty..ready for the night of 1000 pumpkins
a few of the 1000
That was Friday night....then Saturday am...we had a fundraising garage sale...We packed all our "stuff" in the suburban and took it all to Nanny's house. She had a sweet little sign all ready for us.
I Sandeehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18234324593027826036noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21605052.post-72207251500328055012012-10-27T00:00:00.000-07:002012-10-27T00:05:55.378-07:00buttons and lace
kneeling down to the familiar sound
{when did the creaking start}
the bending of her bones
in harmony with the hinges' song
as she opened the wooden trunk
layers of life within
her map skinned hand
{once strong with holding babies
and toddlers hands
with combing curls and ironing shirts
with wiping fevered brows
and smoothing onion thin pages}
now rested a moment on the top Sandeehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18234324593027826036noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21605052.post-19400286045861679602012-10-26T22:55:00.000-07:002012-10-26T22:55:38.057-07:00blessings....God is just so good to us.
something is different...richer ..better...hard to explain...but good.
i just have been aware every day this past week of how blessed we are....and just loving and enjoying my kids...
a big blessing is their school. we switched schools this year...all four of them....which was a long and hard decision for me...and not met with Sandeehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18234324593027826036noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21605052.post-56376969948634869012012-10-25T15:21:00.000-07:002012-10-25T15:21:51.317-07:00watchman angels on the wall, come and sing with us
Jerusalem via Pinterest
Psalm 125:2
"As the mountains are round about Jerusalem, so the Lord is round about his people from henceforth even for ever."
henceforth
even
for
ever
amen!
i posted this picture and this verse on facebook yesterday.
it was for my mom. it just encouraged me. i thought it would encourage her Sandeehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18234324593027826036noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21605052.post-79133793718366996852012-10-24T22:10:00.001-07:002012-10-24T22:31:16.266-07:00the whispering drawthe whispering draw of the leafy, woolen line rubbing along her fingers,
as the needles clickety-clicked...
loop upon loops.
some back some forward some gaps....
as the other she circled around her legs, impatient.
row upon row in a comfortable rhythm,
growing steadily,
although not fast enough for the second she's liking
one hour blended to two,
windows dark against the rain,
tail Sandeehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18234324593027826036noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21605052.post-65967668697075641892012-10-22T09:51:00.002-07:002012-10-22T09:55:00.466-07:00autumn raini am a negligent blogger...i guess facebook and pinterest have replaced my blogging time. doesn't help that blogger seems to hang up and get stuck most of the time..so i don't have time to mess with it. but i am not ready to give up on it yet.
it is autumn and it is raining ...which both make me very happy. I posted this on my momma's facebook page this Sandeehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18234324593027826036noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21605052.post-33386960713782115492012-10-11T19:32:00.005-07:002012-10-11T19:32:56.025-07:00frost
The Road Not Taken
by Robert Frost
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;
Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Sandeehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18234324593027826036noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21605052.post-87662356494256565302012-10-09T10:17:00.003-07:002012-10-09T10:41:47.556-07:00tissue-thin
there is a veil...
tissue-thin....
between the realm of all we see touch and feel..and sometimes despair and the realm of God's spirit, breathing life.
i feel {felt?} ok still feeling, though with a whisper of hope...
i feel battered, exhausted, worried {concerned} stressed over too many things this morning.....
too many gas-guzzling trips in the suburban this week {and Sandeehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18234324593027826036noreply@blogger.com1