How quickly things change. As of this morning, our housing plans have fallen quite, quite through. It is three days before we were to be out of our house and into the apartment, and now we haven’t an apartment to be into.
We had perhaps ten minutes of panic apiece, and then. . .Peace. Maybe even [...]
Entries Tagged as ‘Rissa's Entries’
August 25, 2009
Addendum
August 24, 2009
Eulogy
Our time here is drawing to a close. This weekend, Abby, Bex and I are moving to an apartment ten minutes from the Little White House, and Grace will continue to live with us off and on until her own housing situation works out.
It’s a little sad. These first months have passed away like golden [...]
July 24, 2009
The Little Brown with White Trim House?
Fear not! It shall not come to pass! When the owners came by to see their property, they talked seriously of painting our little white house brown with white trim, but the house was painted last week, and white (with slate blue) it stayed!
In other news, a gross carnage came to pass in our gardens, [...]
June 29, 2009
Change and Hope
My plan for your future has always been filled with hope.
Jeremiah 29:11
The girls of the Little White House could perhaps use your prayers. It’s hard to know where to begin in explaining all of the changes and opportunities that have come knocking over the past couple months…I think our silence was inspired in part [...]
May 13, 2009
Lilac Corner
Big, bushy bouquets of lilacs are overtaking the Little White House. We’ve filled vases and pitchers. . .It has been warm enough for the first time to sleep with the windows open, and the scent of lilacs ruffles through the moonlit rooms on cool, fresh breezes, and colors our dreams.
The pea plants, in other news, [...]
May 5, 2009
May Days
I am reporting from our white wicker porch swing to the tune of its creaking chains and the first songs of the crickets’ spring soiree. The nights are still cool, and I’m wrapped up in a green woolen blanket, the sky is bluely darkening and turning translucent, the lamplight spilling across the street is tingeing [...]
March 28, 2009
Icicles and Dvorak
A small blizzard buried the girls of the Little White House on Thursday.
This is just a note to say that the sun is shining brilliantly today, and we are an island in a sea of white, and I am listening to Dvorak (loudly) as Abby clinks silverware and rustles papers in the next room, and [...]
March 24, 2009
An Army of Cheer
LITTLE WHITE HOUSE — Four girls carrying a large quantity of yellow balloons were seen traveling north near the corner of 12th and Cleveland last night at dusk.
Passersby on that busy thoroughfare reported that it looked like faces had been drawn on the balloons in permanent black marker, ranging from the typical Smiley to one [...]
February 10, 2009
Softly Falling Snow
A deep stillness came over house this afternoon, and a pervasive chill has seeped in at the windows. A few hours ago, the sky began to spit down tentative snowflakes, and now seeping down through the dark branches are the largest and softest of snows. The instinct seemed at first to be for hibernation, but [...]
January 22, 2009
We’re real!
No, really. Great changes have been occurring behind the scenes while we have been maintaining an unflinching silence at the Little White House Blog.
“If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost. There is where they should be. Now put foundations under them,” said good, old Henry.
Any girl who [...]
