LOVE to see these smiling faces sharing some time on the farm and starting our Sunday with mass. Rose and Bernadette were putting up the kneelers one on each end.
We have been having wave after wave of family helping us to have a mini vacation in the midst of our haying these days in between the rains. Our long lost son, Breno, from Brazil followed by my sister, Paula, and family, and then daughter, Nancy, with her husband and 4 kids!
This is so beautiful to me! I would love to take meal pictures at the long tables in our cabin in Michigan with the lake out the patio doors. Now I am enthralled by the beauty of the landscape of the rolling pastures and the corn field across the road. Happy family meals - my sister, Paula, and her husband and granddaughter stopped in on their way to the Black Hills! LOVE family time on the farm!
The porches have become our family time/vacation now with the cabin gone. For Paula and Bill their new camper will allow them to have vacation experiences wherever their hearts takes them.. I am sad to lose our wonderful vacation home, but we are embracing the change and finding great joy when family comes our way!
Supper on our beautiful porch a few nights ago with Renata from Brazil to visit with us for the week.
http://www.marshallindependent.com/news/local-news/2017/07/around-the-globe/
A great article on their trip around the world!
Nancy and Bill arrive and John has his arms full of his two Goddaughters! They are 11 months apart, and soon that will all disappear!
Hay racks ready to go, cows and calves grazing, and family supper shared on Ruth's wonderful porch! Nancy and Bill report how oppressive the heat is in KC, and we are all breathing a breath of fresh air today as the humidity has cleared out and it is cool and breezy after a hot sweltering humid week here too!
So excited to have my first tomatoes yesterday and wonderful cucumbers!
Love to say as we are sharing a meal..."this was growing just an hour ago... beans, tomatoes, and cucumbers. For supper Ruth picked beets and had them on the table half an hour later! FRESH! We feel the vitamins and minerals zooming all around our healthy bodies!
The crew called Faith/Family/Farm!
Yes, Faith! We sat amidst 10 grandchildren at 8a mass this morning, and all were very good including two baby girls - 14 months and 4 months! Even the bigger ones that love to visit and giggle were quiet and respectful, too! After mass Rose and Berna... just months apart in age were little busy caretakers of the church putting up kneelers and telling the littler kids to mind their manners. Father's homily about how we are called to be loving and forgiving and not be judgemental and prideful. I pondered how we share the Truth in a loving way, when you see it trampled underfoot all over the place.
A sight in the beautiful morning light in our wonderful church was such a delight to this old ladies eyes and heart!
Family time supreme just moments after heaven came down to earth! What JOY filled me as I was surrounded by my children and their children - 10 and we sang out with our deepest adoration for our Jesus coming to feed us his Body and Blood - "Holy, holy, holy...!!!!"
LOVE this and mass shared with my family!!! A prayer of thanksgiving I pray every day - "Thank you, Lord, that we share our faith as a family." It has been hard to see how hurt some have been when their kids turn their back on how they were raised.
Genuflecting and kneeling towards the altar... recognizing Jesus there!
Another beautiful porch for Sunday breakfast on this beautiful day!
14 month old Josephine with a chocolate doughnut hole with sprinkles and dogs see her as an easy target... good thing she liked the dogs and accidentally let them have a few.
Lots of bales to pick up...in the midst..
Lord, may my faith even be the size of a mustard seed and be planted and grow to bear much fruit with JOY! I am longing to join the chorus of Praise for all that you do for us! Jesus, we trust in you. Bless-bless, Barb
A rosary and a wonderful Sunday afternoon nap... the best!
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