Today I am hosting a giveaway of The Rhythm of Family: Discovering a Sense of Wonder Through the Seasons by Amanda and Stephen Soule.
You know, the people behind SouleMama.com!
This lovely book is filled with sweet family projects and essays and is beautiful from start to finish. Although the projects are geared more towards parenting smaller children that I have, it’s still a worthy and inspiring book.
This copy of The Rhythm of Family is a used library book, but still in great condition.
To enter to win this book, write your name in the comments section, a well as your favorite simple pleasure. I will randomly choose a winner Wednesday, May 30th at 9 P.M. Pacific Standard Time. Please enter just one time, U.S. residents only.
Good luck!
Katy Wolk-Stanley
“Use it up, wear it out, make it do or do without”
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Hot here in Michigan! So enjoyed watching my kids run in the sprinkler this morning! —Carolyn
Remembering to smell the coffee beans before grinding them in the morning – bliss!
-Chessa
Watching my baby sleep. -Stephanie
Love reading a book in the morning with my coffee. This happens very seldom as I still have littles.
🙂
Erin
Summer lemonade with fruit…tawnya
Sitting on a bench with my 2 year old daughter, watching our chickens do their thing. – Elly
blowing bubbles for my 17 month old daughter so she can catch them.
Jeanine…reading….anything.
My favorite simple pleasure is being outside, with coffee, without children fighting. 🙂
My favorite simple pleasure is sitting down with my daughter at lunch. — Jessica
Coffee in the quiet morning, gazing at the garden.
(there’s a coffee theme going on here!)
Walking to the pond with my 20 month and 3.5 year old and watching the animals. Last time we saw a moose taking a bath.
Settling in to a soft bed with clean sheets after a satisfying day.
Knitting
Reading a book on the couch while both of my little girls sleep, which rarely happens.
My simple pleasure is looking out my kitchen window while I am washing dishes and seeing the seasons change and all the activities of our beautiful bountiful farm.
My favorite pleasure is a hot cup of herbal tea.
picking berries in the summertime
Denise
Listening to the thunderstorms at the end of a sweltering day – Jeff
Watching my cat play….Kathy
I love watching my newborn baby sleep.
I love watching my newborn baby sleep.
My simple pleasure is smelling the hair of my daughter when she comes to cuddle me in the morning. – Sarah
Fresh baked bread mmmm – heavenly.
Sinking into my couch and reveling in a just-cleaned house… then picking up a good book to read. Life just can’t get any better than that. 🙂 -Treva
Watching our daughter running around in the water and playing in her yard sale sandbox. Love weekends like this!
Sleep, i have small children and I really miss sleep 🙂
Unwinding at the end of a long day with a bubble bath or a glass of wine on the deck!
One of my favorite things to do is curl up in one of our big chairs with a hot cup of tea and a good book.
My daily simple pleasure has to be my morning cup of tea in a quiet house before the kids wake up. My simple pleasure this evening was homemade root beer floats on the back porch with the family.
Watching my kids play at the local park.
Natalie
Hanging freshly washed laundry on the clothesline! Next simple pleasure: taking the sun-dried laundry off of the clothesline! Wish I could bottle and sell that wonderful scent!
Simple pleasures of early summer: watching the fireflies light up the backyard. And watching my 6 yr old son get super excited to see them!
Resting in my hammock, watching the clouds roll by.
Reading a good book!
Yep, it’s my first thing in the morning cup of coffee while the house (and the world) is still quite.
Reading a book while sipping tea.
A rowsing game of charades with my brilliant and hilarious friends.
Knitting, and reading good books. And knitting, and knitting and knitting…
Reading library books in my hammock in my backyard.
-chrissy
checking the garden to see what has changed overnight
I would love this! One of my favorite simple pleasures to turn the music up and have an impromptu dance party with my kids. – Sara
Hugging my 6 year old and/or my husband.
My favorite simple pleasure is a walk in the woods. They are full of discovery and wonder.
The sights and sounds of nature are wonderful simple and free.
I don’t have children of my own but I’d love to give tha book as a gift to a young mother.
Cuddling my children. The whole family piled up in bed on a Sunday morning.
Great blog, thanks! Favorite pleasure right now…nursing my little baby cakes. 3rd baby and not sure if we’ll have more…such a sweet time for my and my baby!
One of my favorite simple pleasures (there are so many!) is discovering new free entertainment/adventures that my beautiful city of Portland has to offer. Today it was an urban hike.
Alicia Epperly
My favorite simple pleasures are many. With three week old twins, my new challenge is how to maintain them on some level:
1. Cooking a simple meal and seeing the scraps go into the compost pile
2. Still finding time to read in smaller chunks and while breast feeding
3. Walks with a double stroller
Simple pleasure… reading a library book out in my yard, sitting on my garage sale patio set. The best part are my sunglasses that have reading lenses in them, found them at the dollar store! Life is good.
It’s hard to pick just one. But lately, I love taking a book or magazine outside to read in the hammock or adirondak chair under a shade tree!
One of my favorite pleasures is to sit outside on my back patio with a cup of tea feeling the breeze on my skin.
Hearing my daughter say “Mama”.
A cup of coffee in the morning… It tastes best before everyone else wakes up. 🙂
A quiet backyard bonfire with my husband after our toddler is (finally) asleep.
having a half hour on friday morning before work (I WFH on fridays) when I can sit, drink coffee and cross stitch. it’s a beautiful half hour!
Sitting on the deck each morning with my cup of tea, enjoying the sounds and sights of our prairie.
Listening to the sound of a running river in the mountains.
IT WOULD HAVE TO BE MEDITATING ON WHAT MEANS THE MOST TO ME
I really love snuggling in with the kids and hubby to watch a movie together.
I love reading books about sharks to my 4 year old!
My favorite simple pleasure is a nap! Feels decadent, but is healthy and free!
my favorite simple pleasure is having time to drink my coffee and read the newspaper on Sunday
I’m Suerene and I’m the mother of two boys, a four year old and a two year old. One of my favorite things to do is find a quite spot and enjoy a piece (or pieces) of dark chocolate.
Getting up early to walk with my ipod. Music makes the day! Still having time to water and care for my garden before work. I love the cool, still morning to check on the basil, the tomatoes and the lettuce.
my favorite thing is to watch my son dawdle to the car because he is listening to the birds and smelling the flowers.
Coffee on the back porch on the weekends, especially if I can get up before everyone else.
What a fun giveaway. I would love to win.
My current favorite simple pleasure is sitting around the back yard fire pit with friends on a Friday night. Sometimes we do a crockpot dinner, sometimes we just hang out. So much cheaper than going to a restaurant or bar!
My favorite simple pleasure is the smell of cooking food when you walk in the house on a cool, dark night. ~ Christine
Watering our community garden plot with my son. He has his own little watering can, and loves to go back and forth from the garden to the watering spout with me as we water.
Sleeping in…would be high on the list
My favorite simple pleasure is holding my son’s hand.
Awesome! Favorite pleasure is gardening with my husband (no little ones… Yet!)
My favourite simple pleasure, I’m enjoying it right now: listening to the thunderstorm outside while both my boys are sound asleep.
My favorite simple pleasure is being up later than everyone else, sitting in bed and knitting. We have two queen beds together and the whole family sleeps in the same room. So I can sit in the quiet of the night being surrounded by my family, but also know I’m done for the day.
Please enter me in the giveaway. It looks like a really sweet book. I love to sit down with a great book.
Blessings
Diane
Sitting on the stoop with my husband and son, drinking coffee and reading books—my simple pleasure.
Love a great cup of coffee with s hood book!
Laying in a hammock while my kids play outside on a warm, but not too warm day.
Sitting in my bed at night with a crossword, working it until I realize that I’m nodding off, then turning off the light and snuggling down deep.
Walking the dog. So glad we have a dog as otherwise I would not get out every day.
Sitting in front of the fireplace in the winter while snow is falling outside!
My favorite simple pleasure is sleeping in when my husband gets up with our two small kids. I miss sleep – a lot.
My favorite pleasure is curling up with a big quilt and snuggling with my honey.
Snuggling with my son in bed in the morning 🙂 jackie sheridan
I love puttering in the garden. No agenda, just a little of this, a little of that.
Sleeping when it’s stormy!
Brenda Turner said “I love reading and it helps me chill out!”
I love sitting on my front porch early in the mornings before the rest of the neighborhood wakes up…with my first glass of iced tea of the day.
My favorite simple pleasure is to just relax and catch up on
All my favorite blogs!
Leftover strawberry pie for breakfast….
Thanks for the chance to win the book! And the link – I hadn’t heard of soulemama before but I am headed there to check it out.
With a 4 month old and a 14 year old. My simple pleasure is getting 10 minutes to read a magazine!
Ice cream!