thank you, Sarah.

I never knew what ginger looked like in the wild, so I'm glad a friend showed me... don't they have pretty flowers?

it's so difficult when the stuff going on is invisible... and impossible to explain to our children...

you'll look back on quiet days like this with remembered joy.

even if it doesn't FEEL like it now... just sorta draggin' butt, and fakin' it, I remember it well...

and the REASON I remember it? because I wrote it down on the calender... the kids' new words, new tricks, simple joys, and other fun things.

when I purged tons-lots of stuff (18 years of school stuff, lol, total pack-rat!) I KEPT the stack of calenders... for the beautiful memories.

so, go write down somewhere safe what you just posted, about Ciara and Maddie, okay?