BOOBIES
give your baby the breast
My friends A in TX, and M in WA would like that on their bumpers, I'm just sure of it.
286. Great Grandmother L.
287. speckled puppy tummy
288. little E who conquered the dinosaur head and jumped off by herself
289. friends who come for dinner and survive the chaos
290. the completion of painting the boys' rooms and bathroom
We went to the park today, took Harley along to get him used to things like strollers and screaming kids. Wore him out!
I have wanted to write about hearts, but just haven't had the words.
Church on Sunday was about the tendency to have our hands and feet moving, but our heart disengaged.
But the greatest of these is Love. You can be top dog, go getter, degreed, PHD'd, and all that, but if you have not Love....
I go through days, maybe even weeks feeling like I've accomplished much, but my heart was not involved; I've been cold, detached, effective yes, but not loving.
Sometimes loving feels like accepting bad behavior, looking the other way, taking a break from the incessant need to correct and guide and teach.
I can't afford to take a break and simply love; Good Lord, what might happen! Ugh, dirty clothes not in the basket, dirty boys with dirty ears, clothes on inside out and backwards, toilets not flushed. To hell in a handbasket to be sure!
Just let me get them squared away, then I'll take the time to love on them. I won't be as likely to get jelly in my hair.
Then on the 28th I opened my daily blog update from Ann at aholyexperience and she had a link for a free Charlotte Mason e-book.
I like free.
I like Charlotte Mason's work. Sweet. The book is called "A Thinking Love". I have just begun reading it, but I'm hopeful that it was a timely God sent gift to me and will help me put my heart ahead of my foot and hand action.
Here is the link so you can have your own bit of free today:
http://simplycharlottemason.com/books/a-thinking-love/
Finding the lines between laying down the line and showing grace or mercy towards my kids is really hard for me.
It is easier to bark at them, correct them, and get on with things, than to stop and make a decision about correction via punishment or teaching,
or showing them grace in the moment.
It just seems like it takes so much time! and I'm busy, you really have no idea. but then I think about what is the busy? what do I do each day that is the most important task in my now? Raising boys.
Harley and I enjoyed walking at the park today. He's a boy, what is it with me and boys? He makes me laugh, and that helps me be a little lighter with my two legged boys.
Each blade of grass is beautiful.
Like my favorite fireworks on the Fourth of July.
Central Texas, June, 100 degrees, cactus two feet away, and mushrooms? Seriously?
Library books I'm reading:
The Case Against Fluoride by Connett, Beck, and Micklem
I am totally against drugs in drinking water. Where's the informed consent in that? and the statistics do not support fluoridated drinking water; in fact the opposite is true. If you are a fluoride junky, read this book.
Amexica by Vulliamy
The whole United States, Mexico deal fascinates and disgusts me. This book is specifically about the border land, almost a country in and of itself. So far this is a well written, sad, enlightening book. It was completed in 2010 so stats are very current.
Day of Honey by Ciezadlo
One woman's life in the Middle East from 2003 to 2009.
The above are non-fiction works.
The Beauty of Humanity Movement by Camilla Gibb
About contemporary Vietnam
The Help by Stockett
Wow, this book kept me up at night, made me cry; it's rare for a work of fiction to make me cry. Set in Mississippi in the 1960's, written in multiple voices, from white women and their maidservants. I just kept counting back the years and thinking how all of that nastiness and hate is not history, it's like it was yesterday.
What were people doing and thinking? What were my parents doing! How could educated, Christian, people let that crap go on so long? Ugh.
It is a really good book. Be brave and read it. Consider what is ugly in your community, city, state or country. What are you going to do about it?
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