What you do in your house is worth as much as if you did it up in heaven for our Lord God. We should accustom ourselves to think of our position and work as sacred and well-pleasing to God, not on account of the position and work, but on account of the word and faith from which the obedience and the work flow. ~ Martin Luther

Tuesday, February 11, 2020

These Days






Mid-winter lilies are therapeutic mid-winter.  Try it- you'll see!









 

These photos hurt my heart.  Especially that second one.  

Thank goodness he gave me a little-boy grin just afterward.  I'd have been done in.






We've had sickness going around for about two weeks.  One person would get it for a few days, we'd have a day off.  Then another one would succumb.  Two weeks later, I feel like we are only just now 'back to normal'.  That's one of those things about having a larger family- it is pretty much inevitable that anything 'gotten' will go through the entire house and will take forever to finally hit everyone.  On Ineke's turn, even sick as a dog, she wanted to hold Moses' hand.  It was super sweet- and probably the reason he later got sick himself.  


Being sick never looked so good.


 


She typically wears a sweatshirt and jeans during the week.  Maybe that is why on Sundays, Corynn is all the more striking when she finally does get spiffy.

A friend got her the dress at a bag sale.

And oh, those locks!

 
 

The cinnamon roll star gets an upgrade.  Now it is a strawberries and cream star.  And a major YUM.


A huge, brilliant, beautiful snowstorm dumped about 9 inches of snow on us over the weekend.  It has been such a strange winter- so mild, so brown, so rainy.  I remember one day in January reaching the unheard of temp (around here) of 60 degrees!  It felt so good to see Old Man Winter putting some effort in before it is too late.  The boys build snowbales today and had a nerf gun battle in the yard.  Warm weather and rain in the forecast means that the snow will not last for long- so we enjoy it while we can.

I'd write more but 1 a.m.  isn't the best time to blog.  At least not coherent thoughts.  I do what I can.

4 comments:

Els said...

I love your updates!!!
I know how draining it can be when sickness travels through the whole family, with God's grace we get through it.
Good to see lincolnlogs, memories....we would combine them with the wooden railway tracks.
Now the kids have flown the nest and the first 2 inches of snow here didn't get turned into anything :(
Your Corynn seems to follow the same pattern as our Ineke :). It's good to see them make and effort for the Lord's Day!
Love from an old friend!

Full of Grace said...

I have tried and tried to leave you comments, but it has proved impossible, but I keep trying in the hopes that one of these days it will work. crossing my fingers today is that day! I LOVE all your photos, but wow, Corynn is SO SO pretty and SO SO grown up. Just beautiful.

Unknown said...

The children are all growing so quickly! Corynn!! Oh, goodness, how lovely. Rosemary

Els said...

I see that I turned up as unknown... first comment is from Els in England