As it’s getting lighter earlier I’m finding I’m waking up earlier again. I’ve been using the time to do some quiet meditation and reading. It feels like it’s healing balance and ground me better for the day.
On thé way home from my school drop off I had to stop by the slough and enjoy the quiet of the swans for a couple of minutes. There is peace in the silence
Our 4H club got together today for a pierogie making day. My cousin shared his grandpa’s recipe and they learned pretty authentically.
Its a really good group of kids – 4H has been a really good thing for our family
I’ve seen gophers, this morning I saw someone on Facebook post that there are crocuses blooming in Calgary, and on the way home the girl and I saw swans on the slough
The neighbours have lots of calves, but I haven’t seen any in our field – it’s the last real sign of spring here.
It makes me think of my dad and bow excited he’d get every spring. The hope and promise of new life.
We did a fantastic evening walk with the doggies along the ridge. It was a bit windy, but incredibly beautiful.
On the way back the boy stopped, waved his arms towards the mountains and said can you believe this is our life? I mean seriously the only thing I miss about our old life was the good wifi. Now here we are, it’s so beautiful, and we are surrounded by family. People who actually care that we exist.
I’m so grateful our life path brought us back here
The heifers were moved into the field near our place today, which means soon there will be babies, which means soon it will be spring. Real spring, not calendar spring. The two are quite different events in Alberta.
Seeing a newborn calf stand for the first time, run, jump, play, fills me with such hope and promise for new life.
The girl and I were driving today and she told me they watched a movie in class today.
I said ohh really, a movie
And she told me they’d finished the book so they were watching the movie. That was when I asked her what it was.
The Outsiders
Like only the best movie any junior high girl ever sees. And the book is even better.
But as an angst filled teen in the 80s, a book of struggle and rebellion starring Patrick Swayze, Rob Lowe, Ralph Macchio, Matt Dillon, C. Thomas. Howell, Tom Cruise, and Emilio Estevez is the kind of thing dreams are made of.
I loved that story, and she loves it now too. No matter how times change, teenage girls stay the same.
