hearth and home

What it's all about. A place of love and belonging and warmth and family and companionship. I love seeing the grandkids building relationships with each other.

Treasuring each other, and caring for each other.

Welcoming and taking delight in each other.

Being fun and silly together!

And opening WIDE that place of love, safety and belonging, so that no one is left on the outside looking in.

From a novel by George MacDonald (The Vicar's Daughter):
"Her society did much to keep my heart open, and to prevent it from becoming selfishly absorbed in its cares for husband and children. For love which is only concentrating its force, that is, which is not at the same time widening its circle, is itself doomed, and for its objects ruinous, be those objects ever so sacred. God himself could never be content that his children should love him only; nor has he allowed the few to succeed who have tried after it..."