Creative Writing Archives - Minding My Peas

The Glass Castle

We entered this glass castle together, across the the moat of uncertainty, into a morass of tangled hallways and rooms. The rooms all different shapes and sizes, all made of glass, unique prisms entangling and reflecting the light around us. Attendents conduct us along the pathways. Brief flickers of the…

When goodness abounds…

May 3, 2022 Creative Writing No Comments

Holy Lord of all the ages,Let me to thy haven fly,Let me rise to seek thee early,Let my hunger never die. Feed me with thy blessed gospel,Let me plead Thee all my days.Thou, who gave this sinner new lifeStay with me, now and always. All throughout the pains of this…

Every Second Of A Life

September 21, 2021 Creative Writing Daily Life: Celebrating Motherhood's Moments No Comments

As children, we expect adulthood to be an attainable moment that we simply arrive at, and then life begins. I certainly expected that I would feel like a real adult when I turned 18. And when that failed, supposed 21 might be the magic moment. But the reality is that…

Snap.

June 13, 2021 Creative Writing Daily Life: Celebrating Motherhood's Moments No Comments

They come to me when I’m in the middle of packing for our camping trip. Close-cropped brown hair and bobbed sandy brown above chocolate eyes and gray-brown galaxy eyes. Wide chocolate eyes and sparkling galaxy eyes above radiant smiles. “Want to take a walk Mama? Want to go to the…

Reaching Roots

March 24, 2021 Creative Writing Daily Life: Celebrating Motherhood's Moments No Comments

Writing is something I have always done. I’ve always loved it, whether I’ve been writing mostly terrible fiction, or muddling my way through prose, or attempting children’s books. I still want to write. My mind is busy with half-glimpsed projects, and images that demand capture. I have never felt both…

Waiting

January 21, 2020 Creative Writing No Comments

My mind is a noisy place right now. Thoughts and to-do lists billow like white sails run up on the lines of a ship. Pulled in a hundred directions by unspoken ideas and runaway thoughts, yet anchored to this place and moment in time by sticky hands and bright eyes.…

A Thankful Heart

November 27, 2019 Creative Writing Daily Life: My Favorite Things No Comments

Ambleside Online is one of the main tools we use in our homeschool and we love it. One of my favorite things is their section on holidays. They have an excellent list of stories and/or poems for Thanksgiving and Christmas, and we have been going through the Thanksgiving poems this…

Little Moments, Passing Days

November 22, 2019 Creative Writing Daily Life: Celebrating Motherhood's Moments 1 Comment

I sit on the floor, legs going slightly numb beneath me as I fold a small mountain of laundry. It’s a weekly occurence, but one that can engulf an entire evening. We’re watching a cheesy Christmas movie (my favorite kind) and the kids are milling around the room, in various…

The Next Best Thing

November 13, 2019 Budgeting Creative Writing Daily Life: Celebrating Motherhood's Moments 1 Comment

When we’re dealing with mindful stewardship of our budgets and how they fit into our lives, we frequently come to twists in the road. Sometimes there are potholes or speedbumps, and sometimes the nicely paved road you were on turns into a dirt road and you have to drive through…

The Case for Re-Reading

October 19, 2017 Creative Writing Daily Life: My Favorite Things No Comments

In which I make the case for re-reading… Are you a re-reader? Some people are, and some people wonder how on earth there can be time to re-read the same books. I have personally been in both camps. There are some books that I want to re-read but just don’t…