Cabin Weekend!

We have a 5 month old in the house!

I set Asher on the couch to take a picture of him at 5 months old 

and he looked so cute I just kept clicking away.

Sandbox Completed

Thank you, Daddy, for the new sandbox.

Lots of time spent in the sand this last weekand no more time in the dirt pile out back.

Piano

Our free piano!

Made in 1909

Thanks to Scott and Russ it made it into our house(and Jesse, too, of course).

Knitting

The girls with their first knitting projects.  Hadassah and I teamed up to make her washcloth.

 

Dying wool.

Our colors of wool so far.

Our neighbor lady, Ellen, is teaching us to knit.

Stay tuned for our creations.

I want to see little children 

adorning every home 

as flowers adorn 

every meadow 

and every wayside.

I want to see them 

welcomed to the
homes they enter, 

to see their parents 

grow less and less selfish 

and more and more loving 

because they have come.

I want to see God's
precious gifts accepted, 

not frowned upon and refused."

Stepping Heavenward by Elizabeth Prentiss

Here is a little mouth to kiss; 

here are two more feet 

to make music with their 

pattering about my nursery. 

Here is a soul to train for God,

 and the body in which it dwells 

is worth all it will cost, 

since it is abode of a kingly tenant. 

I may see less of friends, 

but I have gained one dearer than them all. 

Yes, my precious baby, 

you are welcome to your mother’s heart, 

welcome to her time, 

her strength, 

her health, 

to her most tender cares, 

to her life~long prayers! 

Oh how rich I am, 

how truly, 

how marvelously blesssed!

Elizabeth Prentiss 
Stepping Heavenward

Gather the children, Mother, The little heads close to your knee

In the hush of the beautiful twilight, And talk to them tenderly,

When the bright eyes grow tired and restless

And gaze at you wistfully And the sweet lips beg for a story,

Then gather them close to your knee.

Not long will your little ones linger

So talk to them while you may.

 A world may be better tomorrow

 For the story you’re telling today.

So tell them the story of Jesus,

For the child’s heart is tender and true;

And not all the teachers and preachers can guide them,

oh Mother, like you.

-Author Unknown

A little experiment with...

clouds in a jar!

swim lessons

Last week these three completed their two weeks of summer swim lessons!

They did such an awesome job and we sure had some hot days.

So hot I was wishing that I could jump in with them most of the days.

But Asher and I cheered them on.

So much fun!

Asleep

I think I take more pics of my babies sleeping than I do of them awake!