A Splendid September

 

September brought with it Grace at Old Sturbridge Village for Mustar Day, setting up for a new Sunday School year (in which we introduce FCC to the prayground) and a return to life as a homeschool family! Many thanks to the McCarry family for the sweet musbroom house mugs to welcome the girls back to life as homeschoolers! Grace worked at the famr and Emma worked at the orchard this month. I just love that they both chose jobs where they work outside and are connected to nature and the land. xo

Twenty-One Years Of Promises

 

I have no ring for your finger
I have no banquet table to lay 
I have no bed of feathers

Whatever promises I made
I can't promise you fair sky above

Can't promise you kind road below

But I'll walk beside you, love

Any way the wind blows 

I don't need gold, don't need silver

Just bread when I'm hngry

Fire when I'm cold 

Don't need a ring for my finger 

Just need a steady hand to hold

Don't promise me fair sky above 

Don't promise me kind road below

Just walk beside me, love 

Any way the wind blows 

I don't know where this road will end 

But I'll walk it with you, hand in hand 

I can't promise you fair sky above

Can't promise you kind road below 

But I'll walk beside you, love 

Any way the wind blows 

Do you let me walk with you? 
I do

I do

I do

And keep on walking, come what will? 
I will

I will 

We will. 

-Promises from Hadestown

Happy twenty-first annivesary, David! Had this song been out when we got married I have no doubt we would have used it as our wedding vows or our first dance song or both. Thank you for walking beside me these past twenty-one years. Here's to the next twenty-one! xo 

Just July

 

July arrived and with it my second doctoral residency at High Mowing/Pine Hill Waldorf School. It was another amazing week with my cohort learning all about Emergency Pedagogy from the man hinself -Bernd Ruf. We celebrated David's birthday and then began our journey to Maine where we celebrated Grace's and then dropped Emma off at Pilgrim Lodge for the week. It was strange to leave one and bring the other home. While Emma was at PL Grace spent the mornings helping at Nature Camp and then we would do something fun in the afternoon. She got her hair balyaged (thanks, Emily!), we went to Tower Hill, we took the bunnies to be groomed and then it was time to pick Emma up! Once she was home we went to see the Barbie movie (these Barbies loved it!) and we went to Pickity Place for another delicious meal. All in all, it was another splendid month! xo 

This is Seventeen

This is seventeen. Seventeen is a wicked sense of humor. Seventeen is spt on observation of the world around her (and telling it like it is). Seventeen is Starbucks runs with her sister/best friend and learning to drive. Seventeen is researching make-up brands to determine which is cuelty free and worth her money, and watching Instagram reels and sendign them to her mama and sister all day long ("not the Instagram reels!"). Seventeen is Lord of the Rings and Hunger Games and Taylor Swift songs. Seventeen is amazinga nd I am here for it (even if it has all gone by way too fast)! Happy birthday, Grace Elizabeth! May this next year be full of wishes come true! xo 

June

 

June. Pride month. Emma's end of the year presentation. Children's Sunday. The last day of Parker (yay!). Dance Recital, Father's Day weekend and four new chicks to add to the flock. A visit with Frank in Boston and a return home to Plymouth Church. A full month indeed! xo