Spring: A Walk Around the Farm
I don’t always spend a Saturday with my husband at home and the sun shining warm… but when I do, it involves something like planting a hundred gladiolas, lilies, hibiscus, and bleeding hearts… and, of course, a walk around the farm to see how everything is doing. We found a newborn calf this morning. While […]
Skipping Church
I took a series of photos this morning… Post-Thanksgiving unwinding… I’m naming it: “Justifying Skipping Church” The number of photos is directly proportional to the level of guilt. 😉 “Hello Winter” “With a Bow on Top” “Tinsel” “Sideways Tree in a Gale Storm” “Tree with Hay Bales” “You First” “No Really, I’ve Been Sitting All […]
Sweet Potato Haul
“Hey, you have to come outside and see this!” my husband burst through the phone from 30 yards away. Last spring, he happened to see sweet potato slips at a feed store. He planted 20 of them (roots with a little bit of leaf), right next to the tiny, spring version of the annual fall […]
Irish Determination
Ever since my younger sister, Annie, learned to talk, she has been paving my way to adventures I never would have attempted on my own. I remember when she called to invite me on a trip to Ireland. “What??!? You get a trip to Ireland for graduation?” I shrieked through the holes in the now-obsolete […]
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This heat is getting to me. It’s getting to the animals, too. It’s getting to the grass that’s turning yellow in their pastures. It’s getting to the grasshoppers that eat the grass that’s turning yellow in their pastures.
Actually, it’s not getting to the grasshoppers, but I wish it were.
Thursday morning I spied several cattle grazing on our lawn. These are calves, so I’m told.
They look full-grown to me!
Having cattle roaming the place isn’t completely unexpected. (more…)
Last Saturday we threw a “Bee My Baby” Shower for Annie! She plans to use Burt’s Bees Baby products for her little boy, so we had fun planning a bee theme, with some daisies thrown in for good measure.
(Click any image to view it larger. Click here to view my bee baby shower idea collection on Pinterest with links to ideas and places to buy supplies.)
I had just moved, so lots of people pitched in to help me pull this party together. Several people helped with baby shower food ideas, bringing plates of pinwheels, chicken salad on cream puffs, scones with lemon curd topping, and much more.
The worker bees: (more…)
We’ve had quite a “buzz” of activity around our house recently. 😉 The post with those pictures is coming later this week. Meanwhile, some lesser events in the new household…
Oh – and if you’re here looking for my experience with the POD, scroll on down toward the middle, to skip the rambles about my family life.
When my sisters and I were growing up, we used to pore over Myers-Briggs personality type descriptions. I’m not sure whether the descriptions described us or shaped us, like self-fulfilling prophecies.
In either case, I have my description nearly memorized. (more…)
We’re HOME. I’ve been waiting a long time to write those words!
This has been a jam-packed week, and we’re only gearing up for more!
There have been the usual frustrations with moving:
– a sprinkler that won’t turn off and is watering the paved drive
– a gas fireplace that is stuck in a no man’s land between on and off
– a hitch that didn’t fit the trailer, requiring an extra trip across states
– a lost (and found) dog who had a blast exploring the creek
These are minuscule compared to this list:
– finding wild violets, raspberries, and roses (more…)
Today is closing and moving day – a milestone and a sweet time for our young family. This is a filler post until I have my computer set up again. Happy, happy Wednesday!
A while back, I read a post by Kristen Chase on Pioneer Woman’s homeschooling section. She asked readers to share some of the everyday questions that their kids ask, and to reply in Haiku.
For the next several days, I could only think in haiku.
Thanks, Kristen!
Here are some recent questions from my kids, all in Haiku. (more…)
I made my last shopping trip in New Mexico a couple days ago! While we were picking up shampoo, the girls spotted some headbands with enormous flowers on them.
They were $7 each, and they were the kind that poke you behind the ears.
Instead, we decided to make our own silk flower headbands. I let the girls pick some soft crocheted hair bands, plus whichever silk flowers they liked… hence the overwhelmingly preschool girl colors in this post! We also picked up some florist’s wire.
The girls put the flowers where they wanted on the headbands. Then we wrapped the wire around them, (more…)
(Another delayed Wednesday post. Gearing up to move…)
Last week we celebrated the last 1st Birthday in our household.
I was a mess. I can’t believe the baby years are already behind us.
To illustrate just how bad of a mess I was… I… I…
I…
… considered having another baby.
To clarify, there isn’t a day that goes by when I’m not overwhelmingly grateful (more…)
Last week I made Easy, Cheesy, Sure-to-Please-Ye Egg McMuffins.
In a déjà vu from my lemonade post, I got this recipe from another new friend, who posted it on Pinterest. The original recipe for the homemade Egg McMuffins is here. (I will not make the author take credit for the embellished title.)
Start by cracking one egg into each of the greased cups of a muffin tin.
Note: Be sure to grease the muffin tin or spray it with oil. If you forget this step, as someone in our household did, it makes life more difficult than necessary (the story does not end happily for teflon-coated tins).
I used six eggs, because I had six english muffins.
Bake the eggs for 15 to 20 minutes (20 to 25 minutes if you live where the air is thin).
Then gently scrape your stuck-on-teflon eggs out of the cups, taking care to keep them in their original shape. (more…)
My baby boy – the child who will always be my “baby,” the youngest of our crew – is turning one.
The baby who arrived the minute my doctor could get there… (more…)
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