The Good Life

Summer Edition

“They need to be running and painting and mixing and asking questions and then when they’re all worn out, taking naps! Play isn’t a distraction from their work. It is their work.”

-Jessica Smartt, Let Them Be Kids

“If I have a hope, it’s that God sat over the dark nothing and wrote you and me, specifically, into the story and put us in with the sunset and the rainstorm as though to say, Enjoy your place in my story. The beauty of it means you matter, and you can create within it even as I have created you.”

-Donald Miller, from A Million Miles in a Thousand Years

”We want to create the closest, most loving, tight-knit community as possible at home, and an essential secret ingredient in that recipe is fun and play.”

-Krista Gilbert, Reclaiming Home

“I am a mother-tired, but when my soul doth magnify, my time doth magnify…I redeem time from neglect and apathy and inattentiveness when I swell with thanks and weigh the moment down and it’s giving thanks to God for this moment that multiplies the moments, time made enough.”

-Ann Voskamp, One Thousand Gifts

This post is part of a blog hop with Exhale—an online community of women pursuing creativity alongside motherhood, led by the writing team behind Coffee + Crumbs. Click here to view the next post in the series "Fun Mom Summer".