Life at Home

Nooks + crannies + light + family + dog = a home

Pausing in the Busyness

     It's been a crazy 2 weeks since school finished up for the year.  From a ballet recital to an open house for school to a field trip to Central California to selling our 16 year old Corolla to buying a new car(14 year old Camry, gracias a mis suegros), to a meeting with our charter school rep to a swim party to a graduation ceremony and party, I haven't had a chance to breathe, much less sleep.  I've still more to do but I know it will be worth all the hurrying, driving, and enjoying.  After dinner last night, I decided to take a pause and enjoy the children, while observing them with my camera.  The sun sets so much later now that I didn't know we were well past the children's prep time for bed.  My husband had to come in and remind me.  We had fun anyway. 

Sunset

Oh sunset... what could give such a sweet ending to the day but the slow and gradual descent of the sun in the sky.  Such moments calm so many of my crowded and hurried thoughts after a day of teaching, feeding, and cleaning up after the children, of dealing with the regular hardships of living in a fallen world, of struggling with my shortcomings and those of others.  Hardships come and go but the sun continues its ascent and descent, unchanged and unchallenged by the troubles of this world.  It serves as a reminder to the permanency of God, who remains the same, yesterday, today and tomorrow.