Saturday, July 9, 2022
Eastertide Gratitude Daybook
Outside on our Turkey Ranch-
Our spring flowers have come and gone. Irises. Lots of yellow ones. Red tulips & scarlet Indian paintbrush only had a few blooms this year. I planted locally raised geraniums that are holding strong in the heat, also two blackberry bushes on Easter Sunday from and with Jesse.
We have a spring foal on the ground and one still on the way in the fall. A palomino filly named Kisses by Cate (to go w/ last year's foal, Hugs).
From the bookshelves-
Ongoing GK Chesterton in the roundabout way I study things that I have a long-term interest in (biographical articles, podcasts, chapters at a time- rarely reading something straight through.)
Mary & I have started watching Jane Austen movies: Emma, Sense & Sensibility, soon on to Pride & Prejudice. In Girls Group, we’re discussing Haley Stewart’s new book re. Jane as your Life Coach, Jane Austen's Genius Guide to Life.
With our hands-
Cate & Sara put together fun birdhouses that she can see from inside the house.
Mary’s busy making her own cooking camp at home with Pioneer Woman’s Super Easy! cookbook.
JP & I had fun designing his combo-schools Graduation announcement.
For our school’s May Crowning, I made a simple crown for Mary out of live stems and also some props for the Wizard of Oz production later in May.
In my head-
There’s too much in my head. I’m too much in my head. My hormone shifts have been hard. But I’m working on all that w/ a new doctor.
On my heart-
All the kids- Jude home, JP leaving this fall after a special season of Graduation festivities, M & M and a fun summer with them after a stressful year(s!), Cate and a more relaxed schedule for more time at home with her this summer.
Our Recent Road Trips-
Perfect for Eastertide: Gilbert Creek Flower Farm & the Dallas Arboretum.
Back on Good Friday, we spent the afternoon in the Wichita Mountains, including praying Divine Mercy Chaplet at the replica of the Holy City there. Getting to church all three nights of the Triduum liturgies w/ Mary was a "homeventure" that I hope we repeat every year.
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