Grad time

Our baby graduates!  How can that be?
First we celebrated at church with all the graduates--an open house for all.

And then there was graduation!

But where did the time go? How did we get from here

to here?

Early summer salad

Spinach and green onions from our CSA garden share, and an abundance of strawberries in the garden.  Add some sliced almonds and bleu cheese, and you have a beautiful and delicious June salad!

Ron and I were out for the evening, and Nicole and Ava came by while we were gone.  This is what we arrived home to:

Such a sweet and clever girl!!

It Can Be Hard to Let Go...

My sweet grandma (Baba) has been gone for 23 years now, but I still miss her and think of her often.  Some of my most precious possessions are things that I have (and use) that belonged to her.  One of those is my canning bath.  I'm not sure how old it is, but many of Baba's things were first her mother's, so it could easily be 100 years or more if that is the case.  But one of my goals is never to kill anyone off with my home canning, and the kettle is somewhat rusty, and sentiment shouldn't take precedence over safety in a situation like this.  So I bought a new one (not a significant investment at $20).  But the real issue became what to do with the old one, since throwing it away didn't feel good at all. 



I think it will be very happy in its new role in life......

I think Ava knows this......

"The time to show up fully for life is right now, whatever the circumstances.  Life is a swirling pool of infinite potential at every single moment, and we ourselves either activate or refuse to activate the mystical fertility of the universe."







- Marianne Williamson, from Everyday Grace

My grandma used to take pictures of her flowers

and that seemed like kind of a crazy thing to do.

But it makes sense to me now. Now I am that crazy grandma....