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!

Category: motherhood

  • Temperature sensitive Teddy & Ellis

    Temperature is starting to soar in California. This summer, the temperature has been unusually mild, but the past couple of days have been warmer, like too hot. One of my succulents has burnt leaves from the scorching sun! Ellis does NOT do well with heat, and it triggers her migraine. She’s had 2 in the…

  • Wordless Wednesday: 8-7-’25. Thumbs up for Teddy from San Jose Police Officers at 4-H outreach

  • RDP Wednesday: Hair

    This is my Rag Tag Daily Post entry for hair. This picture was taken in June 2018 when kids were playing hair dress shop with their dinosaur figures. They were inspired by a book of photographs of dinosaurs taking over a human house.. It’s titled What the Dinosaurs Did Last Night: A Very Messy Adventure…

  • Meeting our 4-H friend’s hog named Violet

    We learned some interesting information about pigs today from our friend. He’s part of the swine project, and he’s raising Violet as a market pig and she’ll be shown at the County Fair next month. Violet loves to eat marshmallow snacks. Her ears have that jagged shape and was notched from breeders when she was…

  • Golden Gate Bridge and Sausalito sights

    Kids and I tagged along with Chris to Sausalito while he had his networking session. We dropped him off and walked around Sausalito boardwalk, but then I got too hungry and we had to hurriedly seek out a place to eat dinner. I had too much coffee and not enough food, so I was feeling…