sing like wildflowers

My full and kooky life as a homeschooling mommy to 2 great kids, raising a child with HLHS (Hypolastic Left Heart Syndrome), coping with depression, following Jesus, and being much too camera happy.

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Welcome to my blog! My name is Esther and I’m so happy you are here. I’m an avid nature photographer and a daydreaming thinker. My posts revolve around photos of nature’s beauty, homeschooling adventures with my 2 kids, sporadic reflections on my child’s heart condition, Bible reading reflections, gardening feats, and other mish mash things. Hopefully you’ll leave encouraged, pensive, or smiling at the simple things of life. Thank you for stopping by and hope you’ll find some interesting posts to read!

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  • FOTD: Purple Daisies. 1-23-’25. Photoshopped to make the purple more vibrant

    Thank you, Cee, for hosting this challenge! I hope you are having a good January. Dear readers, thank you, for stopping by! I am always appreciative and grateful for my readers, whether new or regular visitors. Have a blessed January.

  • Merry Christmas! 🎄🎁

    Wishing you all a merry, healthy, and peaceful Christmas and a 2025 filled with goodness and peace. Thank you, dear readers, for making my blogging experience so meaningful and blessed throughout this year. I appreciate you all, and thank God for the experience of sharing snippets of my life’s highlights, joys, struggles, and faith with…

  • Thanking God for the good and bad

    Yesterday afternoon, when Ellis, wearing her purple headphones, bounced up and down with delight in the dining table chair telling Elliot some inane thing and Elliot almost fell out of his chair, I almost cried. How do I get to be a part of this joy? That little body moving so freely and happily is…

  • Happy Thanksgiving! 2024

    Wishing you a blessed, happy, healthy, and restful Thanksgiving! I’m so grateful for each of you and for the kind and encouraging blogging family I have here. You all are a special bunch of people to me!!

  • Flower of the Day: 11-2-’24. Angel’s Trumpet

    Thanks, Cee, for hosting! I hope you are gaining strength and enjoying the cooler weather. Thank you, dear readers, for stopping by and have a great Sunday on this first Sunday of November! How is it that we are in the 11th month of this year already?!