A taste of life with the Lunds on a UP homestead

All can be said of my life in just a few pictures:

Standing in Lake Superior

(Some ) of the Lunds: Mary, Theresa, Annie, Michael, Stephen, and Lizzy

An 8-9 mile bike ride in the UP countryside

I milked a cow!!! ( The poor thing I was probably doing it all wrong anyway)

And this is Johnny!!! (I couldn't resist :)


Wading through a (to me, not them) very cold creek.
An old, abandoned, one room school house

And that is life... (though I probably should have posted a picture of the homemade chocolate mint cookies and fresh raw milk we had for breakfast and dinner, but I didn't want you to feel too jealous of me.)

I am one travellin' girl

So it seems like I really enjoy traveling a lot, I am going on another trip this time it is long but only a month. I will be going to four states, Oklahoma, Texas, Florida and Michigan.
I will not be doing my regular Saturday Sketches, but hopefully I will be posting about my adventures in Oklahoma and Michigan. In Oklahoma I will be going to the traditional Clear Creek Monastery and meeting some old friends of my dad. Then I will be spending most of the time with some friends in Michigan (hey Mary and Annie), where they live on a farm/homestead, and will be teaching me some AMAZING skills, and modeling to me a family living an agrarian (like what I was talking about before) lifestyle. So hopefully I'll get out a few pictures or posts here and there, and then I will start back on the regular Saturday Sketches when I return in July. Hope to see you and I will keep all you, my blog readers, in my prayers. Have a wonderful end of spring and beginning of Summer, (wow is it that already, time has flown bye.)

The Saturday Sketch

This is for all you Mother's out there (especially mine :) you are amazing!

Motherhood "How could not the station of Motherhood, the very utterance of the word, evoke such wonder, such awe, such honor, as to render every human in its hearing speechless! For my very ability to hear the word, to ponder its meaning, exists only because I was given birth...by a mother...brought into the world through a series of miracles not even science can explain. "Mothers shape the world one family at a time. Family life is the foundation of human existence and mother is the cornerstone upon which the family is built."
Mary Carlisle Beasley

Have a wonderful Mother's day!
*I know this is a day early, but I will be gone on the actual day.

The Saturday Sketch

First of all, I am so sorry this is so late in the day, I wasn't able to get to the computer 'till now.

I wanted to use this picture, because it in a way epitomizes the beauty of this spring. This particular drawing has two meanings, first, is that we can offer all this beauty and every wildflower or rose to Christ with joy and wonder, much like a child would; and second, it signifies that Christ has given it all to us in a perfect, beautiful, innocent and loving sacrifice and act of love. I can just picture every time I see a flower, Jesus' perfect hand that put it there. It almost gives a profound meaning to every flower, or at least we can view it as such, as God creating them for us to offer back to Him. Here is a little quote to state it more poetically:

"God waits to win back his own flowers as gifts from man's hands. " ~Rabindranath Tagore, Stray Birds, 1916