Peace Arch, Blaine Washington

Seattle Science Center

Such a fun day at the Science Center.  Although there was lots to see, it was the simple miracles of nature that seems to interest the boys the most.  I am so thankful for this day. We prayed for sunshine and it was as if the sun was shining just for us. On the way home, it poured rain.... Heavenly Father does listen to our small prayers.

Experience Music Project Seattle Washington

              *So Thankful* for being able to go a little further than we usually go on a day trip.

Saturdays in Birch Bay

We have a pond right behind our home. I am thankful for the sounds that come from that pond. Last night it was a chorus if frogs. This morning I awoke to birds singing. The pond changes through the year. It is home to a pair of Blue Herons, Canadian Geese, and other creatures that makes my heart happy.

Spring Break

I am thankful for the time we've had this week.

Made-Up?

Today at school one of the printing work sheets read"Dragons are a made-up animal." I could not help overhearing one of my students say to another, "Sometimes dragons are made-up."  Not for a second did they believe that dragons are not real, and that is what I love about teaching this age group.  They are willing to imagine and believe in anything.  It is truely inspiring to spend time with them. This year has been a true gift.

Six Day Weekend

It all started on Monday... I was teaching and we were instructed to have parents pick up there children well before the afternoon was over.  Actually, many wondered why we had school in session on Monday... but now it is Thursday and we have been home ever since.  Safe, in our little house.  I have not done all the planning I meant to, but I did knit a scarf.  

Even I tried a little snow...it was so yummy... it was our first snow since November when we had a small dump.  Would you believe on January 16? Just another reason why I love living in BC.  It broke some records though, a winter storm that has lasted all week. It has been a six day weekend...sigh...*so thankful*

What sort of diary should I like mine to be?

What sort of diary should I like mine to be? Something loose-knit and yet not slovenly, so elastic that it will embrace anything, solemn, slight or beautiful, that comes into my mind. I should like it to resemble some deep old desk or capacious hold-all, in which one flings a mass of odds and ends without looking them through. I should like to come back, after a year or two, and find that the collection had sorted itself and refined itself and coalesced, as such deposits so mysteriously do, into a mould, transparent enough to reflect the light of our life, and yet steady, tranquil compounds with the aloofness of a work of art. The main requisite, I think, on reading my old volumes, is not to play the part of a censor, but to write as the mood comes or of anything whatever; since I was curious to find how I went for things put in haphazard, and found the significance to lie where I never saw it at the time.

V. Woolf

10 Good Things

1. Coming home to a warm shake n bake chicken meal ( Who doesn' t like shake and bake?)

2. Loving my job and every second of it.

3.  My little one and his phrases and the way he loves me.  He was stealing chocolate chips from the kitchen for him and I tonight.

4.  I am still running...

5.  Reading to my students every day...my favorite part of many favorite parts of the day.

6. Looking forward to Christmas even though it is sooo dark right now.

7. Snow... but only in the mountains.  I love you British Columbia.

8. My husband.

9.  All my sweet boys.

10.  My faith.  The Saviour.  The healing power of the atonement.

We Remember

Please join me in posting silence for today.