Hi, I’m Danica.

I guess I’m a lot of things: a wife, a mom, a daughter, a sister, a crafter, a cook, a reader, a writer, a homemaker, a pianist, and probably a lot more too. But at the end of the day, I’m just a Christian trying to find and obey God’s will.

Archive for the 'just life' Category

boys.

Saturday, June 5th, 2010

The headline in today’s Rural News (our local paper) made my heart race:
“Gas & Steam Engine Show June 12, 13″
I grabbed the paper and excitedly got all the details. Tractors, trains, wagons, horses — and all down the road at our local museum. I was probably grinning ear to ear, when suddenly I just had [...]

around here…

Friday, May 28th, 2010

We’ve been working on our first vegetable garden.
Ryan did the tilling…

… and I did the planting.

Our new lights were installed in the kitchen.
One…

… two!

I got our guest room emptied of boxes and set up for company…

… and I cut fresh flowers for the house.

Just in case you think it’s all girly and flowery around here:

Aren’t [...]

pictures.

Wednesday, May 12th, 2010

There’s been another iPhone dump.

snuggle time

Wednesday, May 5th, 2010

just another day

Tuesday, April 20th, 2010

Today, so far:
- a quadruple batch of blueberry muffins
- a house to myself, and a chair with panoramic views of amazing beauty
- a quick vacuum of the whole house (because you can’t just sit forever, you know)
- a new shovel
- the 8th evergreen shrub removed from the front of the house
- referring T-ball and rake-sharing
- [...]

this week.

Friday, April 16th, 2010

My kitchen is painted and we’re slowly settling in.
I’ll put up pictures and words about that later.
Because the small joys of new wall colors and clean counter tops have been largely eclipsed by the tragedy of death this week. A 14 year old boy — a young boy — suddenly gone. A mama’s heart, [...]