I was thinking about it last week when he trotted into my house… the little boy who has trotted into my house hundreds of times. He came in one afternoon last week and greeted me in his little man-ish way, and I gave him a smile and called out his name. And I was happy [...]
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Two years at Willow…
Posted by sarahonpurpose on February 21, 2012
http://thestehlikchronicles.com/2012/02/21/two-years-at-willow/
“I lift my eyes up…” and the days that teach me to do it more
I see it in her face. Or rather, it’s what I don’t see in her face. She is in kindergarten, and I am at the neighborhood school where I help out, and we are walking the halls to a room where we will work on writing sentences. It is the first thing I notice about [...]
Posted by sarahonpurpose on January 20, 2012
http://thestehlikchronicles.com/2012/01/20/i-lift-my-eyes-up-and-the-days-that-teach-me-to-do-it-more/
Labor of Love
The house is quiet. Three boys rest upstairs. The soothing mechanical whirring of the dishwasher is nearly the only sound to be heard. It was not this way an hour or two ago. When the house was all-fire charged with the energy of a whole mess of neighborhood kids. This one drawing, that one playing [...]
Posted by sarahonpurpose on December 30, 2011
http://thestehlikchronicles.com/2011/12/30/labor-of-love/
Letters on life…
Dear West Dallas Community School, thank you for a fantastic first two months of school for the Stehlik family. Even though Noah may scrunch his nose and ask, “What’s the big idea with me having to eat green beans for lunch almost every day?” I am secretly very pleased. Dear music class of George W. [...]
Posted by sarahonpurpose on October 18, 2011
http://thestehlikchronicles.com/2011/10/18/letters-on-life/
One Year at Willow.
It’s hard to believe, but this week marks one year since we packed up our mancubs and moved our circus out of north Plano and down to Willow Leaf Court in West Dallas. I have way more thoughts and emotions as I reflect on the last year than I could possibly articulate, but mostly I [...]
Posted by sarahonpurpose on February 21, 2011
http://thestehlikchronicles.com/2011/02/21/one-year-at-willow/
