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{this moment} – A Friday ritual. A single photo – no words – capturing a moment from the week. A simple, special, extraordinary moment. A moment I want to pause, savor and remember. – Soulemama. Thanks for letting us join!
Tuesday, 3 hours before Jaia needed to be at dance class , she shouts out – “Mom! can we go by new shoes?!” – as in new dance shoes. There’s only one place here that I know of that sells them and it was about 1/2 hour away so we jumped in the car and made a mad dash to buy new shoes! I had been promising her for weeks that we’d go and well… I had to keep my promise right?
I cannot believe I didn’t take pictures at the store! J was in dance heaven. Soft shoes, hard shoes, bags, t-shirts etc… I do believe her christmas list is begun and finished now! She was very happy to get new shoes. – Sorry the pic is blurry – It’s so very hard to catch a girl on the move doing her “step 1,2,3’s”. She’ll be in her first performance on the 11th and her first feis on the 25th of August. I can’t wait ! I’m sure she’ll do fantastic and wow those judges:)
Wednesday was barn day of course. Camps are all over and we’re back to peace and quite there. We went a bit early so Rowan could ride. The heat here has been so oppressive and just plain HOT – that it’s been hard for anyone to find the time to ride safely. Rowan has decided that it’s time Jaia is able to ride Jonah – so she’s been letting J hop on Jonah after her rides. Just a bit of walking until Jaia gets used to riding a horse much larger that what she’s used to. I was sitting and reading while they were riding, but I looked up to see this..
My girls – riding together. I love it when they get along.
Bright Blessings!
On Wednesday we go to the barn. We clean stalls and do the feeding at night . Which means we put grain in, put hay in, let horses in or out – sweep etc.. Both girls get to ride if they want and then we head home.
Jaia getting to ride a friends horse for the first time.
Jaia wanting to see how a real horse – Karoly – would react to the toy horse. Well – he tried to eat it 🙂
We’ll be using these play ponies for races during camps
Wednesday night Jaia also had 2 of her friends sleep over. Talk about busy. They’d been asking for quite a while now, but we were just waiting for the right time.
Jaia wanted to make sure her friends knew where they were going to be sleeping. In the basement with sleeping bags and toys!
Mom’s didn’t get to come down.
Thursday morning/afternoon while all the girls played so well together – Rowan included – she loves to do hair (fancy that) – I made the oil infusion for the plantain salve I’m going to make. Plantain is said to be good for poison ivy (which I now have thank you very much) and also mosquito bites and other skin ailments.
Simmering the dried plantain leaf in olive oil using a double boiler.
Straining.
I also decided while cleaning and rearranging some books that I really aught to work on reading what I have on our bookshelves –
when i run out of books from the library to read.
Today I “think” is crafternoon – Now what shall I make???
Have a wonderful afternoon – It’s supposed to be 90+ degrees here today!
Bright Blessings!
A picture a day – okay 5 pictures a day. Once I started I couldn’t stop.
Cleaning stalls
Getting ready for a lesson
Putting away tack after her lesson
running herd
running herd
Bright Blessings – Have a wonderful day!
So, since I’m constantly talking about “the barn” where we go spend a lot of our time, I thought today I would show you Avalon.
Jasmine the pony
Sophie Dog
Indoor riding arena
Chicken coop, sans chickens currently
Cross country jump course
The goats
That guy in the middle? He’s ours – Jonah.
We were there for a good 2 to 3 hours yesterday before anyone else showed up. It was windy, peaceful, quiet and after I finished cleaning stalls I sat for a good hour reading! and enjoying the silence. There’s more still to Avalon – oh so much more!
Bright Blessings!
Covered In Roses 