saturdays

why do we have to wait all week to play with the ones we love only for a few days...and then wait all over again. it seems odd, this little life we lead. we marry the ones we love because we want to spend our days with them, share our hearts with them, grow in love with them. we have families to extend our love to, to be surrounded by, to leave a legacy to. but once we have them, the reality is, is that life doesn't offer much time for them. our little society seems so wrought up in the greed of life we forget its simple pleasures. and yet this is the way of life. work. i am not opposed to work. i am opposed to work stealing from me and my family. i imagine a life where we are free from the race of life, free to grow and share memories, free to explore and have adventures of all kinds, free to take pleasure in one another without the time frame of a weekend. but then Monday comes...and i wait for Saturday all over again. i love Saturdays. i love that scott is home and when sophie asks if he is going to work, the answer is no. i love spending my days with my family. i just love it, i really really do. last Saturday we played in our garden. my heart was full. my family was close. we picked blackberries and veggies. what more could i ask for. my life is good. i am blessed, even while i wait for Saturdays.

someone seemed to eat more blackberries then they put in the bucketpicking...and eating the last peas of the seasonplanting one last peawashing the produce with dad...both need to pull their pants upblackberries...turn into blackberry pie bars

are we crazy or what...it looks as though we are going to brave one final adventure before the summer comes to a close and school starts again. students come in less than two weeks so we are heading out friday night for 100 mile house to visit with friends. it will be a long journey, but we will take it at night and scott and i can ride the way we used to. we can pretend for a moment that we are just the two of us...maybe we can even hold hands for a while. i am looking forward to it. these last few pictures share what comes with mondays, just me and my girls, learning how to share, learning how to grow as a family, learning how to love each other well, cheerios always come in handing for that.

sophie and penny sharing a book and cheerios, a daily event