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Back to our happy place after weeks and weeks away

Back to our happy place after weeks and weeks away! So grateful that I feel well enough to sit on my heated seats in my toasty warm car watching two VERY happy girls on their fuzzy-coated horses! :)

My view hasn’t changed much…but the sun, bird

My view hasn’t changed much…but the sun, bird song and warm soup make it extra glorious today. The girls saw the sun come out and immediately headed outside. And Simeon was so happy to feel good enough to ride his bike for his paper route. We’re all on the mend it seems—Glory to God!

Such consolation! Isaiah 30:19-26

Such consolation!

Isaiah 30:19-26

All I “had to” do today was wrangle these just

All I “had to” do today was wrangle these just-over-the-crud (and bounced back QUICK!) random-teens-who-shall-remain-nameless as they subbed for Sim again today—he’s nearly bounced back but the 2nd day of headaches still had him fully sidelined. No pics of dinner because we all scarfed down our fav orders from Tiki….I’ll be back the kitchen tomorrow, only head cold congestion and some tiredness left for me!

Today I am finding great amusement in various “s

Today I am finding great amusement in various “suggested for you” English is NOT their first language click-bait posts. I must have clicked on one or another of them in the past and now….I studiously attempt NOT to click…but who could resist more pics of this blond infant. Hahahahahaha!

“Do not say, “this happened by chance, while t

“Do not say, “this happened by chance, while this came to be of itself.” In all that exists there is nothing disorderly, nothing indefinite, nothing without purpose, nothing by chance ... How many hairs are on your head? God will not forget one of them. Do you see how nothing, even the smallest thing, escapes the gaze of God?”(St. Basil the Great)

Funny[ish] story from my part in family drama earl

Funny[ish] story from my part in family drama earlier this week — After the initial blow up I was trying to text someone about it and i typed the f-word. My autocorrect had never seen me attempt to type it before….Lolol…and kept correcting it to something else. I gave up and just typed “bleeeeep” at some point, which my autocorrect kindly would accept. Lolol!

Nina and I proving we have a low threshold for tip

Nina and I proving we have a low threshold for tips….out to do Simeon’s paper route (yep, he’s they under-the-weather today, poor guy)! As I told Nina, be thankful it’s only in the mid-40’s unlike a couple weeks ago.

Smalllll circle — This week has been the toughes

Smalllll circle — This week has been the toughest in terms of chaos and trauma I’ve walked through in a long time… Such a different experience to walk through such WITH support and in REAL time though. In the wake of emotionally recovering the kids and I all came down with what’s likely the “omicrud” (so named by Fr Silouan)… I am taking this as a chance to dig in for more cocooning and recovery time. Everything looks just a bit different each one-day-at-a-time through all this. Thank God for Grace!!!

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