August Break: Farmers' Market

I haven't been doing good at taking a break this August.

Red is obviously the color my eye was drawn to! 

Weekending and an Announcement...

Phew. Good Morning. Isn't this photo beautiful? It's the sky after a storm. The sun was setting, but there will still low-lying clouds.

How was your weekend? I'm listening to the sounds of a sleeping house, it's still quite dark outside and it feels so good to have this little place full to the gills of family.

My weekend? Fabulous. Thank you for asking. (:

While Eric had a mini-road trip, I had coffee, went to the bakery, shopped at the farmers’ market and had a visit with our Grandma Bonnie and Grandpa John, cleaned out a boat-load of closets and cupboards. And that was just Saturday!

My father-in-law and nephew are here for the week, we are all giddy with excitement. The my nephew who was here two winter’s ago. Has it really been that long? Well he’s 12 now. And such a fun ‘grown up’ playmate. Everything he does is awesome, ask my kids— they are excited to get up in the morning just to be with him!

And we’ve eating Mexican food. For lunch we went to our favorite, Los Tulipanes (in Sioux Center for all you locals) and it’s amazing. We had fajitas for two, like we always do because it feeds Eric and I plus kids and leftovers. Mmmm perhaps I’ll have it for breakfast.

And after a lovely trip to Sioux Falls (though we drove home in POURING rain. Scary.) we came home and had the handmade tamales, Carlos brought for us. Crumbled and scrambled with eggs, with bolios and Mexican hot chocolate.

My tummy is so happy right now.

And it will probably be happy all week...

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The August Break: Creative Life

Lately, I've been revisiting my first love. Painting. Nothing really to show for it, just a lighter heart.

The August Break: Eating Local

For lunch every day, Eric and I trek less than a mile from our office building (Yes! We work at the same place!) to our little house.

And usually we dig up something to eat, do some dishes, start a load of laundry. You know the normal things.

But I love it when we take a bit of extra time for a quick healthy, filling meal. Yesterday's lunch was locally raised ham with farmers'-market garlic, vine-ripe tomatoes, home-grown potatoes and friend-grown zucchini. A little balsamic and olive oil. And bam a delicious lunch.

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A quote to think about:

Every experience, every thought, every word, every person in your life is a part of a larger picture of your growth. That’s why I call them crumbs. They are not the whole loaf, but they can be nourishing if you give them your real presence.
- Macrina Wiederkehr, from her book A Tree Full of Angels