Today I have a bit of inspiration for you if you’d like to skim it. It comes from reflecting back on taking care of little people every day. This list of ten are simple. I believe deeply in them and they worked for me. BUT, that doesn’t mean it’s tried and true for everyone. […]
Think Write Thursday {Hello July}
Hello July! Hello good things………….. like beautiful blooms and soft, soft baby cheeks………….we have a new nephew! Hello lilies!!! You have me singing, singing………♫♪♫♪♪ Consider the lilies, the lilies of the field………♫♫♪♫ I posted the lilies in this Instagram post. Hello summertime skies!!! I love them. Big and blue and bold brushed with puffy white […]
A Farm Video and a Puppy Named Jackie
Blogging means post ideas and this idea and these pictures and oh yes, I want to post that………..Oh, look! I forgot I had these pictures. Jot down another idea. Cross of that idea because I ran out of time. On and on it goes………..This girl isn’t going to get it all done. What I’m really […]
Wherein We Have A Burlap Bag Race
Do you remember my burlap gift tags and burlap acorn banner? Do you remember that I made them using burlap from coffeebean bags from Winans? Well, guess what else you can do with burlap coffeebean bags? {I bet you can’t guess it!!!!!!!} You can have a SACK RACE!!! I kept looking at the coffee bags […]
Today I Want To Eat At My Grandma’s Table
Think ~ Write ~ Thursday Linking up with Carole ~ ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………. Remember the times when we would pull around the bend in the drive and come to a stop in front of the garage? We’d tumble eagerly out of the car and head for the door, knowing we’d be greeted with delicious smells and warm […]
To My Teenagers
We’re having a party! ……………………………………………………. Approximately a year ago, give or take, I was making preparations and plans for a party to celebrate our teenagers. I was still moving slow, much slower than now. It had only been a couple of months since my surgery. But sometimes pain and health makes you more acutely aware […]
My Spin On 2016 Best Nine
If you are on Instagram, you may have seen #2016bestnine posted. Something about these nine squares fitted into one square fascinate me. I love to look at them. You can go to the site 2016bestnine.com and input your Instagram name and it will give you “your best nine”. Your best nine are calculated by the pictures that […]
Ten Songs That Remind Me of Where I Live
My fingers are tapping at my keyboard this morning for………….. TEN on TUESDAY!! {affiliate links included} Linking up with Carole ~ Because it’s Simply Tuesday! And I love simply Tuesdays. I won a copy of Simply Tuesday last week and it arrived in the mail yesterday! I love this book so much. I’ve not read […]
Chit-Chat From Around the Farmhouse
I scroll through my pictures as I work on editing some of them and I realize I have a lot of pictures that I love, of life and details. The type of pictures that often ended up in my Monday posts. I start to edit and save some of them and I dump them […]
A Lively Round of Soccer
WE HAD A PARTY to celebrate teenager birthdays this year and my family from-far-away traveled over ALL THE MILES to be here. My sister and her husband and girls came out for a quick weekend. My eldest niece needed to return home for classes, but the two youngest girls were able to stay and go […]
We Have a Party
This year we became the parents of two teenagers! I looked at my man one day back in the fall and I said, “Sixteen and thirteen. Our children are turning sixteen and thirteen. We need to have a party! These are both milestone ages and both in the same year and of course, they will […]
Easter Snow
I mentioned on Tuesday that we woke up to a gloriously, beautiful snow on Easter morning. Here are some of the pictures I took. Mostly from inside my warm house! The snow was clinging to the trees and mounded up elegantly on the porch posts. A winter wonderland! No other description! I really wanted some […]
Praying for Our Husbands Giveaway
On this fine Thursday morning, I am very, very excited to bring you a GIVEAWAY!!! We’ve been having beautiful spring-time weather and the flowering trees are starting to bloom and daffodils are popping up and it’s just lovely…though it feels a wee bit early!! It’s a good day for a giveaway! 🙂 Thanks to Darby […]
Some Pictures of Some Cows and Some Other Stuff
Matthew was doing a few chores and checking cattle for his brother who was gone for a few days. I rode along and I took my camera along, as I rode along, and thus, along the way, at one of our stops I took some pictures of some of the cows. It was just a […]
Valentine Cookie Making
Last week on Friday morning my phone rang. I said “Hello” and a little voice on the other end said, “Wanna come make cookies with us tomorrow?” Why, yes. Yes, I do! 🙂 When a blondie, three-year-old niece calls with a question like that, it just doesn’t take long to answer!! We had fun. […]
Monday Musings About Haiti and Home
Two of my people were gone all last week. Matthew and Renae spent a week in Haiti. They met up with a team and helped out on a church building project. They arrived home over the weekend, very tired and with lots of stories and adventures and pictures. I was very glad they could take […]