Haul - Yesterday my girlfriend met me at a larger-than-life garage sale benefiting a local senior assisted living home. Were any of you local bloggers there? We were the crazy women pushing the double stroller down the very crowded isles and threatening three sweet, but slightly unruly boys with not getting to pick a book out. Sales like this don't happen often in Va. Beach, so we had to go...munchkins and all. Thanks Alicia! It was fast and furious, but I had a great time.
Hays - My maiden name. I loved being a Hays before I got married. I loved it so much, it was difficult for me to give it up...so I didn't. I stopped using my middle name and use my maiden name as my middle name. S still doesn't know that legally, I'm still a Hays.
Hatched - The ducklings have hatched! But we missed it. We came home yesterday to find mama duck had left the nest with her new babies. She is a smart mama as we have 4 cats in our cul-de-sac and our very curious bird hunting type dog. Smart mama indeedy! 5 out of the 10 eggs hatched. The other 5 were left and the boys were very curious to find out why the others did not hatch. So we opened the eggs that were left. None were stinky or rotten, thank goodness. They were just undeveloped, but were the most gorgeous, bright color of orange. Providing lots and lots of questions and yet another look into the amazing miracle that is God's design.
House and Home - I have been thinking a lot about these two words over the past several days. They are very similar and are only but 6 pages from each other in our very old, very large dictionary. But for me they could not be more different. I know, I know...your home is where your heart is. But for me for a house to truly be a home it requires certain "things".
- my great grandmother's table in the dining room, set and ready for company
- a garden brimming with goodness
- daddy home, he left yesterday morning to go back to Chicago
- a kitchen table of sleepy boys eating breakfast
- our jungle gym in the back yard
- my boys' artwork cluttering up each and every wall in the house
- bare feet on our hardwood floors
What makes your house your home? I would love to know.