Dear Little Chee

Four. You are four-years-old. The days preceding your birthday, your dad and I kept mentioning our memories of the days leading up to your birth. Lucia, four years ago today, your mom was very...

Some things never get old...

With Love from December

Here is to the end of a lovely Christmas season and the start of a New Year! The tree has been undressed and is ready to be recycled - not nearly the teary end of the holiday that I had imagined -...

Hope is the thing with feathers - (314)

By Emily Dickinson 1830–1886 “Hope” is the thing with feathers - That perches in the soul - And sings the tune without the words - And never stops - at all - And sweetest - in the Gale - is heard -...

Hope

I wish the heaviest thing around was the big pot of soup on the stove, but instead, it is my heart. I wish I could easily gush over the gormeant grilled cheese sandwhiches I made, the concoctions...

What Love Is: Oklahoma Christmas

There is a queer peculiarity about the atmosphere when a little family goes-a-Christmas-tree hunting with crunchy leaves under foot and not even the slightest chill in the air. On such an early...

Casseroles and Farewells

Before December takes full hold of me, I had to set aside a few words for November. November, my favorite month, swept in quietly from the hold of October and greeted me with the known & thrilling...

Organic Pumpkin Butter: A Neighborly Gift, A November Favorite

Ingredients: 1 can organic pumpkin puree or approx. 3 1/2 cups or fresh 1 cup organic apple cider 2 teaspoons ogranic ground ginger (optional, sometimes I omit) 1 teaspoon organic ground cloves 1...

The Second of December

Decking ourselves in light garb, we spent a seventy-something December Sunday in mid-town. We walked away from November with warm hearts and good memories, into a month of even more family and...

DIY, Adoration.

Per the English Language Dictionary: a·dore [uh-dawr, uh-dohr] Show IPA verb, a·dored,a·dor·ing.verb (used with object) 1. to regard with the utmost esteem, love, and respect; honor.2. to pay...

A word or two about teaching

Most days I look out into a sea of faces and wonder what the hell I am doing. Beautiful little faces full of life and potential - full of interest in subjects and life and most things other than...

Words to Live By

One of my favorite Instagram feeds that I follow is Free People Greenwich because,not only do they post awesome office style, but they load my page chock-full of inspirational quotes. Below is one...

Fancy a Stroll?

It is already Tuesday morning as I finally sit down to jot some notes from the weekend. Fall has swooped in and set the world a spinning for us and we have enjoyed it so! From Trick-or-Treating...

This Morning

I woke thinking of nothing else - only my Grandma Airy. My cousin Stacy and I joined my dad at her bedside a few weeks ago, when I was in West Virginia. I remember looking at her big brown eyes and...

Seasons Change

This fall day my thoughts continually linger to those that I love so much in the hills of West Virginia. The fall leaves have probably transformed even more from the time that Lucia and I departed...

The Wisdom of the Augusta Place Trees

So the tree rustles in the evening, when we stand uneasy before our own childish thoughts: Trees have long thoughts, long-breathing and restful, just as they have longer lives than ours. They are...

32nd Birthday Breakfast

For Mateo's 32nd Birthday Breakfast, he chose a Waffle Champion feast of champions. We three bundled up tightly on the chilly-chilly morning, snagged some coffee for we thirty-folk, milk for our...

Music & Baking

Playing music and baking are Lucia's two most favorite things to do. Together she and I can make some rather delicious concoctions - brownies from scratch with honey and cocoa, banana bread with...

www.joyfullygray. us is now www.joyfullygray. blogspot.com

Hi everyone - www.joyfullygray.us is no longer our domain. We are only using a {free} domain now: www.joyfullygray.blogspot.com. Please update your bookmarks! The new address will be updated on...

Dear Little Chee

Four. You are four-years-old. The days preceding your birthday, your dad and I kept mentioning our memories of the days leading up to your birth. Lucia, four years ago today, your mom was very...

Some things never get old...

With Love from December

Here is to the end of a lovely Christmas season and the start of a New Year! The tree has been undressed and is ready to be recycled - not nearly the teary end of the holiday that I had imagined -...

Hope is the thing with feathers - (314)

By Emily Dickinson 1830–1886 “Hope” is the thing with feathers - That perches in the soul - And sings the tune without the words - And never stops - at all - And sweetest - in the Gale - is heard -...

Hope

I wish the heaviest thing around was the big pot of soup on the stove, but instead, it is my heart. I wish I could easily gush over the gormeant grilled cheese sandwhiches I made, the concoctions...

What Love Is: Oklahoma Christmas

There is a queer peculiarity about the atmosphere when a little family goes-a-Christmas-tree hunting with crunchy leaves under foot and not even the slightest chill in the air. On such an early...

Casseroles and Farewells

Before December takes full hold of me, I had to set aside a few words for November. November, my favorite month, swept in quietly from the hold of October and greeted me with the known & thrilling...

Organic Pumpkin Butter: A Neighborly Gift, A November Favorite

Ingredients: 1 can organic pumpkin puree or approx. 3 1/2 cups or fresh 1 cup organic apple cider 2 teaspoons ogranic ground ginger (optional, sometimes I omit) 1 teaspoon organic ground cloves 1...

The Second of December

Decking ourselves in light garb, we spent a seventy-something December Sunday in mid-town. We walked away from November with warm hearts and good memories, into a month of even more family and...

DIY, Adoration.

A la Dictionary.com: a·dore [uh-dawr, uh-dohr] Show IPA verb, a·dored,a·dor·ing.verb (used with object)1.to regard with the utmost esteem, love, and respect; honor.2.to pay divine honor to;...

A word or two about teaching

Most days I look out into a sea of faces and wonder what the hell I am doing. Beautiful little faces full of life and potential - full of interest in subjects and life and most things other than...