A legacy of motherhood

“How can it be a large career to tell other people's children about the Rule of Three, and a small career to tell one's own children about the universe?
How can it be broad to be the same thing to everyone, and narrow to be everything to someone? No. A woman's function is laborious, but because it is gigantic, not because it is minute. I will pity Mrs. Jones for the hugeness of her task; I will never pity her for its smallness.”

― G.K. Chesterton

8 BIG months.

I asked my resident photographer, Clairvaux, to take pictures while I was making dinner yesterday.  Our lives are a conglomeration of routine tasks.  I generally do the same things everyday. Although, I always find it so beautiful that if I did NOT do those same 2,000 things each day, so much of our daily lives would be lacking and wanting.

How important it is for them to eat.  I was told that 75% of the daily happenings occur in the kitchen.  That is about true for our lives.  What a beautiful gift food is to a family. What a silent sacrifice it is to produce that gift each day.  I had her take a picture this particular day as Kapaun was wanting to be right next to me, Vianney was telling about all the tales she has been reading since the literary world has exploded for her, not pictured was Damaris wanting a snack.  I was there buzzing along, listening to Vianney, kissing Kapaun, preparing a meal for ten.  How can this work not be deemed so very important! 

Barely pictured, Vianney telling me about all her stories.  If I wasn't here, who would listen to her stories and make her feel important. 

Who would hold the koala bear?

We do all of this because we love you.  We want you to know how loved, wanted, and cared for you are and were!  I cannot help but think of John 15: "Greater love has no one than this, to lay down one's life for another."