Shotsnaps

Because I have them.  

When Aidan was a week old, we attended Simeon and Marissa's lovely wedding by the lake. And-- wait for it!-- I commandeered Mercy to...

...on Papa and Mama's bed. In sleep, all sweetness.

...for fledglings to nearly get run over by the lawn mower. Don't worry.  John rescued it and brought it to Millie, and Millie ...

Babies are better than sleeping pills.  I'm out within minutes.  

The quality of this snapshot is lacking, but I post it because of Piper's expression.  She asks to hold Aidan many times a day,...

Several weeks back, John cleared a rectangle of weeds and green down by the road so that my dad could plow and drag the earth for a new...

When John's parents were here, his dad alerted me to the fact that I'd already successfully grown a pumpkin in the newly plowed lowe...

  But wait!!!!  Is that my brother Joel, taking a break from the dissertation that will earn him a doctorate in philosophy, holding a s...

For Molly. We saved leftover seeds from last year, and the girls planted them along with their hopes for pie, breads, and soups.  ...

(Picture of my parents, my brothers and sisters, and all the nieces and nephews.  Yup. That's twenty-five children spread between the...