The Gifts of Ordinary Days

Days are passing with excessive speed and I'm trying to take it all in.  Five more work days, five more opportunities to bring Lene home to have lunch with me, five more weeks before another school year is in the books.  Yet, even with all that is happening, I am filled with an incredible peace.  I am delighting in my mothering moments and have finally leaned so completely into God that I'm not sure where I start or where He ends. As it should be, I suppose.

Trips to the desert have become memories in the making lately.  Tis the season for pony rides and birthday parties for a favorite four year old.  And letting go a little for Lene to make fun ten-year-old memories with her friends. . .

Wine walks and wise words adorn the forefront of my mind as opportunities loom about me and friends rally around to encourage me in this change of life I am about to encounter.

Outside reading sessions, healthy smoothies, imaginative, creative play embrace us.  Hearts break wide and a farewell dinner of sorts takes place under the stars as we send our Miss Sharon off to Idaho to live closer to her people. 

Ordinary days filled with extraordinary ways.
Embracing it all.
Don't blink.
It will be gone too soon.