The Beautiful Life

Project 52–Week 52

I actually made it through all 52 weeks! Woohoo! I’m thinking about trying out Project 365 next year, but I’m still debating. We’ll see. Anyway, on to the last photo of the year…

Have a happy New Year!

Project 52–Week 51

We just finished reading Peter Pan in school today, so I’ve got a bunch of pirates on my hands now. Aren’t they terrifying?

Project 52–Weeks 49 & 50

Week 49: Owen is Mario Brothers obsessed, so when we saw this project on Sew Mama, Sew! the other day, we had to make them right away!

Week 50: It was really cold here last week and hot ham and bean soup and homemade cornbread muffins were just what we needed!

Project 52–Weeks 46-48

Catch up time!

Week 46: We finally got our house on the market. After years of talking about moving, we are actually going to do it!

Week 47: We took two weeks off from school to just relax and do some fun Thanksgiving-related crafts that I don’t usually have the energy to do after we are in school all morning.

Week 48: We always put up our tree the day after Thanksgiving. Owen is really obsessed with the Mario Brothers, so I took his broken Mario and hot glued some ribbon to his head. Instant Christmas ornament. And I think it made him feel the loss of Mario’s foot a little less.

Project 52–Week 45

I was over at the Bethany House of Prayer the other day, walking around the land and taking pictures for their new website. Of course, we had lots of kids in tow and Graham insisted on me taking this shot. He’s such a sweetie.

Project 52–Weeks 43 & 44

Week 43: I was taking photos of our house to get it ready to put on the market, and Owen kept getting in all of the photos! See him peeking out from behind the tree?

Week 44: I bought these wonderful letters made by Likely and they came in the mail the other day. The kids LOVED them and we spent a couple of hours playing word games, sorting letters and just carrying the pieces around. Fun, fun!

Project 52–Weeks 41 & 42

He thinks he’s Spiderman. Every single time I take out the camera.

The day’s reading selections for school: Raft (wonderful book!), Heidi, Beehive Reader, Beyond the Great Mountains, A Child’s Calendar. Life is slow, and life is good.

Inspired by Ann and Ann.

Project 52–Week 40

There is just nothing like a steaming mug of hot chocolate on a blustery Autumn afternoon.

Project 52–Week 39

In the last couple of weeks, I’ve taken up scribing. I’ve been wanting to make His words more a part of my everyday life and, as someone who always has a pen in hand, this simple but powerful act just makes sense. I’ve started with my favorite book, Revelation, and am slowly working my way through, pausing to breathe in His words and carefully scratching them out onto paper. It’s fitting really, since we’ve been talking about scribes in school this past week, and although I don’t write as beautifully as those monks did, the words still shine.

Project 52–Week 38

We had a last minute change of plans on Friday and the kids wanted something to do, so I got out the craft box. What started as a quick fifteen minute session ended up lasting a couple of days, with multiple requests (and bribes) to do it again soon.