The Queen Bee Challenge

Hello Friends!

It's Friday and I'm so happy.

This week has been filled with Science experiments, Art projects, baseball games, reading "The Chronicles of Narnia," a trip to the library, and swimming.

Summer is so incredibly sweet....and busy. It hums along like a bumblebee, and if we're awake and aware, our homes can become a hive of happily humming bees busily engaged in making honey and other sweet summer things.

Or they can become a hornet's nest of squabbling contention and noisy discord.

I challenge myself this weekend to make my home a hive of happiness, a haven of holiness {even if summer tends to have a higher volume than other seasons}.

When the buzz of my children would usually cause me to quiet them down and hush their play, I will choose to smile instead and love them for their exuberant childlike wonder.

And when the buzz threatens to turn to angry cacophony, I will choose to be a loving queen bee, and bring sweetness back to my hive.

Care to join me?

P.S. I'm doing a GIVEAWAY on Instagram right now for an original hand-lettered 8x10. It ends tomorrow--so go follow me @writinginthestillness to enter!