Lamentations 3:22-26

 Because of the LORD’s great love we are not consumed,
   for his compassions never fail.
 They are new every morning;
   great is your faithfulness.
 I say to myself, “The LORD is my portion;
   therefore I will wait for him.”  

The LORD is good to those whose hope is in him,
   to the one who seeks him;
it is good to wait quietly
   for the salvation of the LORD. 

Praise be to God Almighty forever and ever!

Head and Shoulders or Knees and Toes?

I Heart Faces is shaking things up this week...they want something other than faces.  I have taken a lot of pictures of ears, hair, toes, fingers, noses, fingers in noses...

I looked at my pictures on the computer and I kept coming back to a couple of Christian.  I really loved his hair last summer.  It was so long and wild.  In many of the pictures I took of him (and there were many, believe me) I could (can) see him as a young man.  I got a glimpse of his grown-up face. 

Then there were all of the times when he ducked under the water if he saw me coming with the camera.  If he wasn't in the mood for a picture, then I got a picture of his feet.

I decided to enter this picture since, for me, it's unique.  And I can enter the other one another time, in a face contest (maybe a beach one?).  He had some pretty cute baby feet...I can't believe those baby feet are gone!  Now he has big boy feet.  They're still cute, but I don't kiss them anymore. 

I'm thinking there are going to be some fun, interesting, and even emotional pictures this week...take a look!

Just Because It's Us?

Weird things happen to us.  Seriously.  I feel like I'm in the middle of a show sometimes.  I don't know if it's a comedy or a tragedy.

Michaela, Eliana, and I were in Eliana's room just hanging out this morning.  Eliana was entertaining us with her funny antics and sayings.  All of a sudden she got up off of the floor, went in her closet, and shut the door.  I thought to myself,"One should never shut themselves up in a closet!"  Michaela has been listening to The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe every night as she goes to sleep. 

After a second Eliana opened the door enough to poke her face out and she told us,"I need some privacy."  Then she shut the door again.  Michaela and I looked at one another and giggled.  We never know what that girl is going to say or do.  She knew we thought she was funny, and she opened the door and looked at us once again.  She said,"I need some privacy!"  Then she smiled and waited for us to laugh.

She opened the door and a few minutes later was about to go back in there.  She was in the doorway, and I believe she was facing into the closet.  She turned around quickly and said,"Something fell down!"  I said,"What?!"  I hurried over to the door and sure enough there was something on the floor that had not been there before. 

I looked up to see where this may have come from.  There is a light hanging precariously from the ceiling, and I have no idea if it's possible that it came from there.  I wondered if something else had pushed it over the edge of one of the shelves and out into the middle of the closet floor.  I sort of felt like the lords in Braveheart when they have betrayed William Wallace and then they are having a meal and one of the betrayers falls to the table from the rafters above, dead.

Only just with legs.

Seriously.  Weird.

A Happy Girl

Swinging in circles,

Looping about,

Squealing, delighted,

Giving a shout...

If joy could be captured

And saved in a jar

It just might be pink

And full of bright hearts.

A Portrait of a Home With Young Children