You know it.  Friday again.

 

 

FUNNY

 

Lately what is hysterical to me are the announcements and proclamations and such that Otto Fox decides to make.  When he decides to deliver his information is as equally funny as how he chooses to deliver his message.

 

 

He is currently The Deliverer Of All Information That Is Gross.  Spoken with no drama and no build up.

Hours and hours after his discovery he enters a restful near-bedtime living room and hops on the couch.  Between singing verses of a song from Sunday School he offers this gem of knowledge —

“Guys,” he says.  “We have some moldy cheese in the fridge.”

Or.

From the car’s far backseat (as we listen to the same six songs until I die) Otto lets everyone know some more pertinent information.

“Dried blood really creates some cool shapes sometimes.”

 

FASHIONABLE

 

My middle girls are just not into any sort of fashion yet.  I’m perfectly okay with that.

But my youngest and my oldest enjoy cute clothes.

There’s a little store in our town that has the cutest shirts for little girls.

I’m hoping Piper Finn will want to wear one of these adorable tops this autumn.

 

 

 

FLAVORFUL

 

You know we love the apples.

 

 

Here’s a little simple homemade Apple Dip that we have plenty during this fall abundance of apples.

(It was given to me by a co-worker at my first post-college real “career” job at a newspaper in Virginia.  Thanks Renee!  I’m still making this dip more than twenty years later!)

Apple Dip

Mix the following together:

8 oz. block of cream cheese
3/4 cup of brown sugar
1/4 cup of sugar
1 tsp vanilla

It’s best when it’s warm and that creamy warmth lets you forget that you are dipping your healthy apples in pure sugar.

 

FAITHFUL

 

Honestly, I can hardly barely even read this Ann Voskamp post.

The one with these words in it:

Sometimes….

The thing you never would choose for your life, chooses you for a reason.

Sometimes…

The thing that you’d never pick, picks you to become brave.

Sometimes….

You get what you need  — by walking through what you never wanted.

The thing you never wanted, may turn out to be be the thing you need most.

I hadn’t known: The thing that may make you fall a bit apart, may be part of what one day holds you a bit together.

It’s so raw and so, I don’t know, hard to swallow somehow.

But it’s good.  It’s full of true.  It’s scary and it’s painful and I’m going to have to re-read it again several more times before I can absorb it all.

 

FEELS

 

Sometimes words are all I need.

I heart words.

And this quote is an inspiring little quote for me – helping to realign what I value in home education.  And child rearing overall.  And – you know, what I value for my own life.

Do not ask your children to strive for extraordinary lives.
Such striving may seem admirable, but it is the way of foolishness.
Help them instead to find the wonder and the marvel of an ordinary life.
Show them the joy of tasting tomatoes, apples and pears.
Show them how to cry when pets and people die.
Show them the infinite pleasure in the touch of a hand.
And make the ordinary come alive for them.
The extraordinary will take care of itself.

— William Martin

 

 

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