Never Runs Dry

What goes comes to mind when you read "never runs dry"? For some reason the first thing that comes to my mind is alcohol. lol. (And my drinking experience is a couple of sips every year or two.) Specifically, "the wine is flowing freely" comes to mind. I didn't actually know what that expression meant …

Reflections on half a decade.

Today we dropped Elaina off for five hours of daycare (one hour for each year) and had a date in the rain. “Can you imagine if the weather had been like this on our wedding?” Forest asked as water sprinkled on our heads. He would have been a lot more comfortable in his wool tuxedo. …

The God who sings.

I was standing in my kitchen wondering what to write today. There are always funny sayings from my two year old. Today I asked Elaina the philosophical question, “so what do you think about life?” Her answer was “something Jesus.” When I asked her later she said, “TV.” After lunch I started browsing on my …

Good bye songflower.life, hello songflowerlife.WordPress.com

If you type songflower.life into your browser you will get a message saying the account has been closed. It’s not really. I just changed the address after downgrading to the free version and re-mapping the domain songflower.life would be a whopping $99. All that tech jargon is just to say, You know the split decisions …

Summer wanderings

It's Wednesday night. Blog day. So many writing roads I could take. When my sister asked "how did you manage the heat?" I told her the story of how we took refuge under our mamosa tree and then somehow ended up wandering to the nearby park where Elaina jumped in the wading pool clothes and …

Please pray

Update: Robin is stable now and should be able to start the long road to recovery soon. In my every child matters post I shared about Robin who courageously walked from Kelowna to Kamloops on behalf in memory of the residential school kids. I am having a hard time writing because I just heard that …

Wonder Restored

I packed my suitcase for a road trip on Thursday and it felt strange, foreign. Distant foggy memories of doing this action before surfaced. When was the last time I stayed overnight anywhere? March 2020. To be precise, we came home from Washington on March 1 when the COVID toilet paper jokes were just beginning …

Rewards are a good thing

I was worried every day. I worried every time my daughter ate something sweet or acidic or sticky… because she wouldn’t let me brush her teeth. And when I let her try it was a brush biting, paste sucking gong-show. And then the sticker chart idea surfaced. It ended up being a colouring chart when …

Every Child Matters

Elaina woke up screaming in the middle of the night. I think it was a bad dream, I gave her a hug and sat with her. Then we both went to the washroom and went back to bed. I was grateful to be back under my blanket but I couldn’t sleep and my mind drifted …

Heaven and Earth – a one minute music video.

It was a beautiful early summer night and I was at my favourite spot, Little River beach. I was about to trade my island home temporarily for a summer job in a hot kitchen at a Ranch camp. I soaked in the ocean view with all my heart. Then an unfamiliar feeling came, a deep …