What a gorgeous gal...inside and out! I'm so glad that you loved your day with family. I have loved knowing and growing with you the last 10 years..wow! I can't wait to see there this next decade takes us. Love you bunches!!!!
beautiful Anna, Thanks for sharing your day with us. Looks like the family celebrated you perfectly. Thinking of you on your birthday and Mother's Day. love, Jen
My precious friend, sweet Anna. Words are too few as I try to express my deep love and appreciation for you and your friendship. You are a blessing, as a friend, a mother, a wife, a sister, a daughter - in every area of your life you strive to love those around you. You are always looking to serve.
I think of you every time we sing the Prayer of St. Francis (Sarah McLachlan version). "Lord make me an instrument of your peace. Where there is hatred let me sow love. Where there is injury, pardon. Where there is doubt, faith. Where there is despair, hope. Where there is darkness, light. Where there is sadness, joy. Oh, Divine Master grant that I may not so much seek to be consoled as to console, to be understood as to understand, to be loved as to love. For it's in giving that we receive and it's in pardoning that we are pardoned and it's dying that we are born to eternal life. amen."
Just a girl seeking peace, hope and love through daily life with four kids and a husband that is working on his PhD. I homeschool our kids and enjoy reading, cooking, baking, sewing, blogging, photography and watching films. I am attempting to live simply and creatively. We definitely don't have it all together here at home, but we are learning a lot and we're having fun on our many adventures.
The Boxcar Children Series by Gertrude Chandler Warner
The Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis
The Fellowship of the Ring by J.R. Tolkien
The Hobbit by J.R. Tolkien
The Lorax By Dr. Suess
The Red Wall Series by Brian Jacques
The Trumpet of the Swan by E.B. White
Madelyn's Favorite Books
A Pair of Red Clogs by Masako Matsuno
Amelia Bedelia Books
Anne of Green Gables retold by Kathleen Olmstead
Corduroy by Don Freeman
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone By J.K. Rowling
How to Make an Apple Pie and See the World by Majorie Priceman
I Love You, Blue Kangaroo by Emma Chichester Clark
I Will Never Not Ever Eat a Tomato by Lauren Child
Ping by Marjorie Fack and Kurt Wiese
Strega Nona by Tomie DePaola
Tales from Pixie Hollow by RH Disney
The Love Me Bird by Joyce Dunbar
The Princess and the Pea by Lauren Child
Kalen's Favorite Books
A Color of His Own by Leo Lionni
Caps for Sale by Esphyr Slobodkina
Charlotte's Web by E.B. White
Corduroy by Don Freeman
Frog and Toad books by Arnold Lobel
Harold and the Purple Crayon by Crockett Johnson
How Are You Peeling? by Saxton Freymann and Joost Elffers
Owl Moon by Jane Yolen
Snowy Day by Ezra Jack Keats
The Feelings Book by Todd Parr
The Night Eater by Ana Juan
The Robobots by Matt Novak
Where's Waldo by Martin Handford
Brayden's Favorite Books
Yertle the Turtle by Dr. Seuss
The Very Quiet Cricket by Eric Carle
The Very Busy Spider by Eric Carle
The Foot Book by Dr. Seuss
Peek-a-Who? by Nina Laden
Moo, Baa, La La La! by Sandra Boynton
I Love You Sun, I Love You Moon by Karen Pandell
Goodnight Moon by Margaret Wise Brown
Blue Hat, Green Hat by Sandra Boynton
Music I Like
Alison Krauss
Barbara Streisand
Caedmon's Call
Ella Fitzgerald
Frank Sinatra
Harry Connick Jr.
Indigo Girls
Jack Johnson
James Taylor
Miles Davis
Nickel Creek
Norah Jones
Randall Goodgame
Sarah McLachlan
The Temptations
Favorite Quotes
"Hope has two beautiful daughters; their names are anger and courage. Anger at the way things are, and courage to see that they do not remain as they are." ~ St. Augustine
"Christianity stands or falls with its revolutionary protest against violence, arbitrariness, and pride of power, and with its plea for the weak. Christians are doing too little to make these points clear ... Christendom adjusts itself far too easiliy to the worship of power. Christians should give more offense, shock the world far more, than they are doing now." ~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer
"As long as people use tactics to oppress or restrict other people from being free, there is work to be done." ~ Rosa Parks
"Give until it hurts, because real love hurts." ~ Mother Teresa
"Joy is the best makeup."~ Anne Lamott
"Out of intense complexities intense simplicities emerge." ~Winston Churchill
"Forgiveness is not an occasional art, it is a permanent attitude." ~Martin Luther
"May God give us all openness to ways leading beyond our own selves." ~Mother Teresa
“Be the change you want to see in the world.” ~ Mahatma Gandhi
"Education is an Atmosphere, a Discipline, and a Life." ~Charlotte Mason
"Love accepts all and gives all. Love should be as natural as living and breathing." ~ Mother Teresa
"We have come to the place where we can honestly say that there is no distinction in our home school between home and school--we are living to learn and learning to live all at the same time. That is what happens in a home." ~Sally Clarkson
"I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent." ~ Mahatma Gandhi
4 comments:
What a gorgeous gal...inside and out! I'm so glad that you loved your day with family. I have loved knowing and growing with you the last 10 years..wow! I can't wait to see there this next decade takes us. Love you bunches!!!!
beautiful Anna, Thanks for sharing your day with us. Looks like the family celebrated you perfectly. Thinking of you on your birthday and Mother's Day.
love, Jen
My precious friend, sweet Anna. Words are too few as I try to express my deep love and appreciation for you and your friendship. You are a blessing, as a friend, a mother, a wife, a sister, a daughter - in every area of your life you strive to love those around you. You are always looking to serve.
I think of you every time we sing the Prayer of St. Francis (Sarah McLachlan version).
"Lord make me an instrument of your peace. Where there is hatred let me sow love. Where there is injury, pardon. Where there is doubt, faith. Where there is despair, hope. Where there is darkness, light. Where there is sadness, joy. Oh, Divine Master grant that I may not so much seek to be consoled as to console, to be understood as to understand, to be loved as to love. For it's in giving that we receive and it's in pardoning that we are pardoned and it's dying that we are born to eternal life. amen."
I love you. Happy Birthday!
Happy Birthday sweet girl!! Glad to say I have known you for most of these thirty years!
Love you!
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