The Unexpected

The Lord often protects me from some of the more difficult facts of life because He knows how weak I really am. Weak? More like wimpy, wimpy, wimpy! Last Thursday, I was helping to set up and decorate for our church’s women’s retreat. This was my third in a row with CSA, second year helping [...]

Last weekend

Just a very brief update so Lola knows what’s happening. The soccer game: the boys lost again. However, the number of goals that they lose by has been shrinking noticeably. NM has been strongly commended at each game for doing a great job as goalie (wow I am proud) and even as striker. His confidence [...]

Town Lake Walk

Really, I had no idea how much I missed walking around Town Lake/Lady Bird Lake. We went yesterday afternoon and walked for several hours. Austin was wearing its Sunday best, the temps and humidity was perfect, the blooming flowers perfumed the air and it was just gorgeous. Just gorgeous! And I had the camera the [...]

Updates

(Seems like they might be needed) The Cardinal Saga It continues! Today, while Mama Bird was away, I saw what I think were three eggs. They’re tiny and speckled. I guess I never thought about what they might look like, but there you are: tiny and speckled, not unlike quail eggs only not as speckle-y. [...]

Cardinal Saga Continued

Day Three: Day Four: To come: a video of mom fixing up the nest, taken today. UPDATE: a video of her working on the nest: Untitled from phisch on Vimeo.

Mayfield Park

We didn’t get to do much this past week since the boys have been congested and we’ve had to deal with the tiredness that comes with that. But after church today, we headed out to Mayfield Park to take photos of the peacocks (and peahens…no one ever remembers the peahens…). Besides peacocks, flowers: But, really, [...]

First trip to Jumpy Gym/Mary Moore Searight Park

We’d never really been to a place like this except maybe once when J was a baby and NM was invited to a friend’s birthday party. A warehouse full of different jump houses? Right up my boys’ alley! Can’t tell, can you? We were with some of our friends from church so the boys had [...]

Lots to blog, but in the mean time…

…our J has a cold. You know the kind that makes it hard to sleep? That I-can’t-breathe-and-don’t-like-to-breathe-through-my-mouth kind. No church for he and I tomorrow. We missed a chance to visit the zoo today but that was mostly due to weather. Instead we stayed inside and played with the camera. Always a silver lining!

Our Hike at Mary Moore Searight Park

This past Sunday, we finally had an opportunity to take Abba to see Mary Moore Searight Park which we last visited in January. The weather was beautiful so we just had to take advantage of it. J remembered to bring his field guide with him, so we enjoyed learning about the creatures we spotted. Hubby [...]

I <3 These Boys

“Why do you have the heart thing in that?” “I just want the practice, my baby.” (The thought of how fast you are growing up sometimes makes me heartsick) “Take my picture too! Oh wait, I want to ride my bike. Don’t take too long!” “Just stand still and it will go very fast.” (Not [...]

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