roosting on em
– hannah’s image
:: my honey just returned from “hunting and gathering”…and most of these littles are bumping into each other in the kitchen trying to put all the things away…
and that little william just held a chocolate bar up high and declared, “mom, this must be for you!”
and i’m just so wondering why my children always just assume these things!!!
“miiiike…ride my miiiike!”
– emma’s image
#10
for as long as i can remember…i’ve written like this…
and for as long as he can…he’s written like…
…this!
he’s ruled lines to my open, empty space…permanent pen to my always-opportunity-to-erase-if-need-be pencil…all CAPITALS to my (almost always) complete absence of!
a perfect illustration of our very personalities!
my opposite in most every way!
they most definitely do attract…
and i thank Him for that every day!
even…and especially…on these mondays!
dear daddy-to-mine,
to mine…nine!
oh, my…
can you believe it?
you and me!
we get to share another new little someone!
i mean…just imagine that…
and wasn’t that just so…always…like Him?
when i went to press “publish” on that little post the other day…
and realized that my 9th monday’s reason to smile…
was about our 9th newest little someone!?!
hasn’t He just always been that kind of amazing?
His timing…even in the things seemingly so insignificant…is always…just so absolutely amazing like that!
yes…that’s just always been just so like Him…
His planting me right in front of you…His setting us on and leading us all along this sometimes-straight-but-more-times-than-not-twisty-turny path…His filling our arms with all these littles all along the way!
all…and every last little bit of it…just in His most amazingly perfect timing!
and, hey…have i ever told you how grateful i am to be sharing this path…and all these littles…with you?
how very grateful i am that they have you for their dad?
well…i am!
and i’m just hoping you’re feeling so very loved by all these littles today…
these mine…and yours!
‘cause you just so definitely are!
more than these…or any other words…could ever possibly say!
very sincerely,
me
#9
i felt it…
His unmistakable nudge…
and him and me…caught all-utterly-by-surprise…just shook our heads with a, “wait…what!?!”
and…“us?!?”
so we sought counsel from some much…much…wiser than us…
and they all said…“yes!”
and we sought more counsel from some of these 8 already…
and they all said…“YES!!!”
so we came to Him and said, “if You would…then…yes, please!”
and then…HE…
…did this!
dear boy o’ mine,
this past week has been so (especially) nostalgic for me with these three little pullets ‘round here…
‘cause i can still hear you calling out into the dusky meadow each night…
“heeeere…chick, chick, chick! heeeey…duck, duck, duck!”
wooing all those fowl to come in where they’d be safe after dark…
and i can still see (especially) those little heads pop right up out of all that tall grass…and hurry just as fast as their waddle would let them right towards your voice…
those funny little ducks all in their straight row…
don’t you just miss all those blacks, and goatie-goats, and dogs, and cats, and ducks, and chickens…and silly…your mama’s one goose?
don’t you?
don’t you just miss all the feeding…and the watering…and the mucking…and (especially) the sometimes having to track them all down over all that whole property?
don’t you?
yes…i’m just so sure that you do!
i’m just so sure you miss all of that!
and i (especially) do too!
very sincerely,
me (your sometimes-wishing-you-were-still-that-little-“shepherd”-boy-with-his-one-big-stick mama)
– the “thank you” that boy o’ mine sent to his great-grampa bert for those four black angus (june 18, 2003)…and that boy, his first two girls…and his most favorite stick! (fall, 2001)
chick, chick and chick
or…wait…
maybe it’s chick, chick…and…chick?
oh…i’m so confused!
i’m just no good at keeping them straight!
let’s just call the top one “chick”…that middle one “chick”…and the bottom one…“chick”…
alright?
okay, great!
– hannah’s image