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This Thing Called Rhythm
So I took my advice and chilled out. I really needed it. The house did kind of fall apart. My grocery list was once again limited to milk and chocolate. We ate beans all week. We swung in the hammock...
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It’s Back!
Ordering the Stars is being interrupted to bring you a special message from this week’s sponsor, The Santa Fe River. Please continue chilling out, until the next installment. ~ After a long dry spell,...
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Ordering the Stars: Home is Where You’ll Find Me
So today is the day I spill my biggest secret about Ordering the Stars: Spend more time at home. Spend more time at home, and your home will be taken care of and it will take care of you. That’s it....
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Postcards from High Summer
Summer, that season of such bounty, unfolds before us. And behind us. Maybe even within us. It’s been a good run, so far. We’ve been known to leave home, a handful of times. But always in our home away...
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Growing into Motherhood
Has anybody else been following the beautiful series over at the Parenting Passageway of women’s stories of growing into motherhood? They are just filling me up with encouragement and...
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Ordering the Stars: Home is the Heart
Here is our family’s “mission statement.” What we strive to practice daily, as best we can. Whenever there is a lot going on, when life is overly full or times are tense, this is how I find my way back...
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Living on less: life is good
Jumping in with Adrie to talk about living more simply that the planet may simply live. Seems money is on both our minds this week. Her post is here. A good friend and I often have lively debates about...
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Ordering the Stars: Housekeeping Rhythm
A friend of mine shared this story: She read in a book by a Waldorf early years teacher that whenever the children starting getting too wild or disruptive, the teacher slowly and methodically went...
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Days of Wonder
The glorious days of Autumn have been full in their simple way. What do you say when old friends ask what you are up to and all you can think of is laundry and roasted chickens and the new bonnet you...
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Letting Go: The Christmas Edition
Earlier this week I wrote my version of “The Letter.” Maybe you’ve been working on one, too. You know, the letter we send to our relatives explaining, pleading, guiding, reassuring, demanding, that...
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Finding Grace, Going Slow
Simple days, as ever. Re-reading Mitten Strings for God and Simplicity Parenting. These books just make me feel so good when I choose to forgo the many holiday activities going on, to not go overboard...
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Waiting for the Light
I’ve known it was coming. Since September I’ve been preparing. But still, now that it’s here I’m caught by the fullness of it. Darkness. Two days of beautiful, much needed rain underscore it. No sun....
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Notes on the New Year
Hi Friends, Happy New Year! I’ve missed you. I wish I could say hello here more often, and am glad you come by for when I do. These days I’ve been: ::Resting. Home from a big family Christmas, it has...
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One Year Later: Remembering Birth
One year ago, around today, I was getting ready to have my second baby. Oh, I’d been waiting and waiting and waiting. Wanting that birth to come more than anything. And you know what? It just wasn’t...
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Waldorf 101: Notes from Parent Night
Here are some impressions and notes from a parent night at Cora’s preschool this month. Yes, I’m the dork that takes notes at parent night. What can I say, I’ve been studying Waldorf early years stuff...
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Yarn Along
Joining in again! We’ve been so happy that our library got Pocketful of Posies, a book of nursery rhymes by one of our favorite’s, Salley Mavor. It is such a feast for the eyes! (I loved the...
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Ski Date Love Song
Sometimes, the snow comes. And the kids are sick. And Grandma and Grandpa want to be with them. Sometimes we are let loose, my love and I. The land shimmers in it’s snow blanket, fresh and airy....
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Traditional Foods Blues
It’s a song, people. dum dum dum deedum I woke up this morning my earl grey tastes like a goat. Set the sourdough rising, and cooked those soaked oats. Dee dum dum deedum The yogurt milk boiled over,...
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Head, Heart, and Hands
Thinking about creativity, the mother’s journey, and the deep need each of us has for a sense of purpose. I’ve been really enjoying the audio interviews at the MAPP gathering that speak so...
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This Old Bedsheet: Cowl Neck Tee Edition
Welcome to the first edition of This Old Bedsheet, wherein the crafty re-purposer makes all kinds of wondrous things with old bedsheets, fearlessly expanding her fledgling sewing skills, saving the...
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