A New Blog....

....by some of my favorite people in the whole world!!!

Dearest Observers, I give you:

 Brothers Five   (www.thebrothersfive5.blogspot.com) !

That is...the new blog of my five little brothers, (who are awesome!) Andrew, Samuel, John, Edwin and Paul Morton. They got their first intro post up tonight and they've already make me laugh...I love them. :)


I can hardly wait for more of their posts!

Much love from a happy (and adoring) big sister,

Adeline

Today. And Lusciousness.

Today.

It feels like Spring in June.

My Mama is in the kitchen, cooking. Making hamburgers for lunch, and fresh tomato soup for supper (with Daddy's homegrown tomatoes!) with an Italian amount of garlic.

I am once again overwhelmed by the blessing of friends who are also like my sisters. Marth and I had an impromptu spend the night party at 'Manda's with Angelita last night. Sisters. Chick flicks and pillows and PJs and talking from our hearts and praying together.

Hydrangeas by the side steps.

 For beautiful music that makes you want to dance. I'm listening to this today!  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nIY51AaHN1E

The dining table overflowing with baskets of fresh vegetables from the garden. (any favorite eggplant recipes, mes cheris?)


The fact that I can rejoice and be glad all my days because of being satisfied in the incredible mercy of Jesus. Psalm 90 has blessed me so much.

Ah.

And for pictures that make you smile and edify you just scrolling though them.

I give thee now, kind Observer, inspiration!

I love finding pictures that reflect God's love for beauty and craftsmanship. So. Here are my latest goodies to share with you.

A room with an odd assortment of furniture and hues of blue that make you think of the sky with a few quirky clouds.

This makes me laugh!!

Babies.

And then this....
This.
J Peterman. Mens jacket, with green lining. Olive green.

Why do I love squash so much? With onions? In a cast iron skillet? Timeless, incomparable comfort food.

Ah!!
Soft gathers. Gold bracelets. I love her hair. Nix that yarn like mess hanging down. Replace it with something turquoise and soft. Velvet? The cream silk...that golden yellow...

J Peterman again.
Behold, one of THE most gorgeous men's wardrobe ever!!! Ah....Just throw in some front zip sweaters...some bootcut jeans, white tees...some seersucker...Georgia boots...and a carnation for the lapel of the coat.

A shoe that delights my heart!! I'm in such a yellow mood. Look at the folds in the fabric!

Doesn't this kitchen just say "honey-come-in-dahling-and-eat-something-and-bake-bread-and-also-chicken-marbella-and-sit-and-talk-and-drink-coffee" ?

Eucalyptus is so. so. pretty in arrangements I think.

Another Louise Green that is 'dericious'!

 Another flowey yellow yummy!

 Delight!!! Stripes! French Provincial with gold details.

One of the most understated, stunning bags in the world. (Peterman once more)

Isn't this the sweetest little cake?

*Quiet sigh of pleasure*

Can it get any better, non?

And this. This is a picture of a lady homemaking and it is beautiful. 

I would so love to have this framed! This inspired me. I love, love love it!

So-what was your favorite? I love hearing what picture jumps out at people. :) My favorite was, of course, the girl in the kitchen, but then those shoes...and also the chairs. And golden yellow skirt. Oh, and isn't the chandelier in the kitchen stunning? Did you see that!?

Alrighty-I'm off!! Thank you for enjoying these with me.

Fondly,

Adeline

2011 Retro # 4 Winter Picnic with the Smithie Kids

Ah, there are few things more wonderful then nieces and nephews. (Aren't they adorable!?) I got to take them on an Auntie-spend-time last winter, and a hot chocolate picnic was in order. It wasn't super cold, and the crunchy leaves sounded so peaceful. The stillness of winter woods is so quiet and yet so loud at the same time. I love it. See, that one little colorful leaf!? :)

And...here are the cuties themselves! (All of us in Winter makes me laugh...my usual knit cap makes me double over sometimes when I pass a mirror...)

 

Hot chocolate is good medicine.

Oh my goodness! Just look at them....

"Esther, smile!" 

"Is'th my hair-a good?"

One wonderful thing about Georgia is that you have flowers almost all year round!

 

Bret III (I love you, buddy!)

 

Here is moi, a very happy Auntie! (Aren't my self portraits getting better!? ;) I never knew Auntie hood was such a delight.

Ronny is so.so. adorable. He found this wire while we were down there and drug it over all  my himself. That child has got the muscle!

 Well, toodles. Love all those chillrens' so much. All 17 of our  grandbabies!

Love,

Aunt Poog

2011 Retro # 3: Of Saturday Afternoons and Sisters

I wrote this a little more then a  year ago and just never published it...thought I would now! Hope you have a beautiful day!
~AGM

If you had climbed up in one of the tall pine trees that circle around a small, open grassy space, on an unusually beautiful Saturday afternoon here in south Georgia, you would have looked down, over there, and seen that there were two girls on a quilt in the grass, with an odd assortment of things piled around them......a basket of various junk food retrieved from the bread drawer, a thermos of hot water, various teas, a jar of honey, a shotgun, ammunition, journals, pens, camera, blankets, pillows and books. Having arranged themselves thusly, the two could have lived comfortably for several days.


They begin to sip their tea in the planned afternoon of quiet thoughts and contemplation. They talk, then fall silent. Then an outburst of laughter.... the indistinguishable sound that comes from the shuffling or moving of something they're holding or looking at that you can't quite see.

The sky is the brightest of blues, the air has the refreshing nip of early spring, and the little birds are singing out their tiny hearts in beautiful praise to their Creator. As you are looking through the long, spikey clusters of fragrant needles, you see that they are situated on a knoll leading down to what they call a beautiful creek, but what in actuality is really a little trickle (but they love it, so that was all that matters). The cows drink out of it when they are thirsty on a hot Georgia days, and are a ways off from the trough.

They read for a while, and then, as sisters often do, end up holding their books while they talk, and then eventually abandoning them as their conversation continues...One of them fixes herself a cup of hot, steamy tea. She is using her shoe as a cup holder. She takes a picture of her amusing invention, and then one of her sister, reading.

They are talking now. Everything is beautiful...the gentle wind, the bird's song...except, in the midst of the blue sky and perfect weather, they miss their sister, an older one who's just been married, very much. As they sit and enjoy each other, they feel at the same time incomplete and strange. Like they want to jump up, leave their picnic, and run give her a hard hug and tell her they miss her, and that they wish she were here-but at the same time, they don't wish that she were with them, because they're so happy she's happy and married. Ah, she is in a beautiful season. Yet they are, too. Just a different one.

Sometimes you miss her in your home and in your everyday life so very much that all you can do is go to the bathroom and cry real hard for a minute and then laugh at yourself because the thing you're crying over is really the happiest thing in the world. But you do miss her, and feel strange without her.

But they know that, as time goes on, they won't feel strange anymore, and they'll learn how to be two instead of three. Yet that very knowledge of getting used to the new normal puts a lump in your throat sometimes. But, oh, Lord, thank You for such beautiful seasons of being three together. That was really fun. And thank You for this new season. Marth and I are really enjoying it and learning allot of new things. Thank You for helping us to feel better and get used to change. We're not quite there, but we're doing better...thank You...

That's what they talked about, the two girls, huddled on the blanket, talking their hearts out, feeling less strange than they had been. Knowing that we can learn new things and make new memories, and knowing, too, that we can hardly wait to see her again. To all pile on the bed and eat ginger snaps and milk and be so happy to see each other we all start crying, and then, as always, laugh at each other for being so silly...

2011 Retro #4: Thanksgiving on The Island

Good morning y'all,

Yes, another retro post. :) Still experiencing computer problems! But I'm loving all the memories so much...Last year we had the greatest joy and honor of spending Thanksgiving with our dear Uncle and Aunt at their home off the Georgia coast-Grand Daddy and Nana and our cousin C. and Michael and Kressant and their crew were able to make it, and we had a truly wonderful time. There is nothing better in the world, I think, then to be with your family!!
They had this awesome low country boil prepared for lunch, with tons of Auntie's super famous desserts, and then smores, that evening, and horse shoes, bikes, the creek...of course the best part of it all was sitting together and laughing and talking. To hear the sound of my Grand Daddys, Uncles, and Daddy's laughter together in a medley reigning supreme, with Mama's and Aunties joining in merrily, grandchildren howling, is a sound I've missed so much, and one that makes me want to cry for joy hearing it. I missed allot of other voices, but maybe they'll be able to be there next time. It was just a very special day for all of us.
Cuties.Mama and Auntie in the kitchen! Auntie's kitchen is such a warm, loving place.All the guy's music was awesome!
Marth and I hopped down to the lunch site and tidied to picnic table.Their woods are just gorgeous.
*laughing*
(I love my sister Marfa!!!)
"Me's on my way to 'da creek!!"
Marth giving Jonny a piggy back ride...
It's as if you're in another world. Like one out of a book.  You know that feeling when you go somewhere you just barely remember visiting as a little child, and you go back and it's even more enchanting than you remember? That's a breathtaking experience.Low tide...All the grandkids were quite excited.Stability
Cleve, back then, a-few-weeks-before-he'-married!"There's a fine line between fishing and just standing on the shore like an idiot." ~Steven Wright


My family.

Ah, those are really beautiful words to be able to say...and to think-they all belong to Jesus and love each other-I'm so super blessed!! It was wonderful. We have so much to thank God for.

Thank You, Lord...

Love to all-and hope that you have a wonderful day.

~AGM

Our internet is back up!

Dearest Observers!

How are you? See, we can get on the internet now. Hooray! And all the peoples rejoiced. (Alan is the sweetest brother in law to fix all of our junk for us!)
I hope you are well today, and feeling good and enjoying all this rain and mist and Ireland-feeling-ness. And I hope you are halfway through a quart jar of water and that you're going to drink another! And that you rejoice in the Lord today. Pray that I would. His mercy is so great that any other heart-attitude would be so great a tragedy. He is soo forgiving and loving, even when I fail. Praise His name! How good my Jesus is to me.

And now, on to posts. Life. 'Tis very much so in the past, but isn't everything? Our mother 'puter is still low in the dumps, so all the pictures I have are old ones that were in drafts. I feel like I'm digging through an old attic chest and smiling and laughing and crying when I find old stuff that's beautiful and brings back memories that are oh-so-good. So, as the technically challenged, tardy blogger often says, better is something old, then nothing new.

With love,

Adeline Grace

2011 Retro #3 Thanksgiving at Home

Thanksgiving.

A time to give thanks to God.   How grateful I am to the Lord for these people that are some of the ones that I call family. Each one is such a blessing. (and how I get to missing them as I sort through these pictures! Hugs to all! Sending missings through the wires!)

So. The deluge of photographs commences!

(Look at that sky!! I just love the blue skies in the Autumn. Praise the Lord!)We begin the beautiful day with the boys catching the Thanksgiving goose for roasting. Jay, who is a seasoned veteran in these matters, always does the chopping honors. Hence the seasoned squint. (he really is a sweet boy)Just kidding! LOL. "How I love these well done jokes."

;D That's actually our special goose that babysits our chickens. I have named her Jemima.
My Daddy is a Grand Daddy too. Wow. Praise the Lord! Here he is with Anna grace.Cooking!!! Ah. One of my very, very favorite parts about Thanksgiving is all of us stuffing ourselves into the kitchen and laughing and talking and shoveling around flour and tasting chocolate!I miss you Alyssa!!
Hey cuties.Andrew and Mariah count how many flies we need for the giblet gravy."I think that'll do. We can can the rest."
Alyssa and I always coordinate our duo pictures. Martha makes the best chocolate icing!
Gracia and EnochLet the Feast begin!Sam! Pile it on, honey!It's allot of fun to look down the tables and see face after face of really special people...Marty and Wesley Begin their careers.One thing I love at Thanksgiving is all the embarrassing pictures of people eating. They delight my heart all year long!Auntie manages to look graceful even when munching. Hooray for Lady Jacqueline! (Nick? Cleveland? What are you doing?)Katie and Alan-both the eldest children in their families and amazing examples for each of their 11 younger siblings. :D We love y'all. (And Anna says hey!)
Uncle Bret and Aunt Jacqueline are so wonderful. I miss them!*laughing* Henry and Mikey.
"Is thy turkey as tender and succulent as my many hours of labor should render it?" quoth he to his neighbor.
"Very well, sire, thank thee!" was the kindsome reply
Two inpertinate urchins chow down on an atrocious amount of cranberry sauce and wave their flat ware about in an awkward manner. They were soundly flogged.
Chief Eating Bear approves of the gelatin salad......As does Brave Spearing Fowl the asparagus casserole.
My father and mother. They are pilgrims too, and I thank the Lord for them going before us.
Martha
Wesley and RachelLOL, another eating shot...The girlies table!Yuch, you make me smile!
My Mama, the greatest woman I know.
Dorothy and Noah and Little Man! (I love y'all and miss y'all!)
This looked like the funnest table. You've no idea how fun it is to place the name cards at different seats. Alyssa and I laughed for hours and moved names around here and there. This table was the perfect balance of loud, quiet, boring, funny and obnoxious. Not necessarily in that order. :DI love these people!
Hey M.!!! I woves you and just started missing you when I saw this picture!One of the sweetest couples in the world. We love them allot. And he can smile, too.Andrew, enjoying the food and little J.! (who is so.so. happy and wonderful)Gabby and Rose discuss calories over sweet potato pie and gravy.Feasting
"You know, Frank-Jac and I don't really appreciate you taking my roll."
"Ohh-brother, that was yours?"
"Yes. But, shoot, whatever!"
Marty
G.The three contestants await the judges decision.The pilgrims and Indians continue feasting.Eating Bear continues to approve of the gelatin salad.
"Me. Big. Macho. Eating Bear. More. Everything. Except vegetables." Daisy! You are a joy! These two are adorable together. Me and Alyssa put them there just for this picture!Ashburn
This foursome makes me laugh.
The eating ones-they are the best!S. and Enoch
And then the time that is most important, most dear. When the people in my life get up and testify of the Lord's goodness, faithfulness and provision. These are the moments that stand out in your mind, get stuck in your heart. Listening always makes me cry. It always makes my heart sing and makes excitement well up in my heart. We serve a faithful, loving God. May we be faithful to Him, through the strength that He only can give. That is a mystery-the great, great love of the perfect God to His  fallen creation.

The mercy and love of Jesus Christ overwhelms me. Blessed be HIS name.I LOVE this couple. They are beautiful.
This dear, dear cake. See the artful placement of the leaves? 'Lyssa, Mariah, Marth and I had such lofty dreams for this flour and sugar. I think it turned out quite pretty, just, infinitely simpler. :D Oh, speaking of cakes, y'all should see some of Alyssa and Mariah's cakes-they are simply breath taking.JohnPlundering the spoils!Cuddling with grandbabies...While the guys play music...
Rach was just sitting there drinking cup after cup of water. After about 30 minutes I got slightly concerned.
Happy birthday Nick!! You're grown! Love you, brother...The ultimate challenge-a matchbox car motor. They did it. Carlos can now play with ease.

(Actually, I'm not sure what this was. They are amazing, though! I love having handy guys around!)
Michael Jr. and Kressant! How I love them!Mother and Child
I love these pictures! I love seeing life-long-best-friends-sisters laugh together...and love Jesus together. That's what makes it so beautiful.DessertMaud and S. with Enoch. Nick struggles to keep the child and plate in paw.
Nick, you're going to be awesome. Just next time use a wet cloth. The vultures have gathered...
Singing together! I love hearing all the instruments. And singing. I love to hear Christians sing together.
In love...
It's the twins again!
And Gracia starts a traveling circus. Nice playing, M.

On to Page two, lovelies! 'Dis way....