For several years, we’ve had the fun of visiting a pumpkin patch in our area. Here’s my first blog post about visiting the pumpkin patch. We often go with my cousin and her kiddos. I can’t believe how much younger they looked in 2011. A couple of years makes a difference! Renae was at a […]
Memoir Monday {No. 2}
More Memory Making Moments. That’s what our days and weeks are. Life lived. Moments captured. Praise to God. Time ever flowing on. There are good moments when we want to hold on longer and hard places when we are glad that we keep moving on. What memories did you make last week? Link up below! […]
A Peek at Idaho
Here’s a peek at Renae’s Idaho trip. She took a camera, but she was too busy most of the time to take a lot of pictures. It’s fun to have pictures, but it can be hard to remember to take them and sometimes dragging a camera around with you is somewhat a pain. She […]
In Which We Make a Super-Size Butterhorn
My son has been asking for butterhorns. Our weather cooled off and the chill always makes it sound fun to bake and have the warmth of the oven and the yummy, homey smells of the said baking. We had a rainy, gray Monday, so we stirred up butterhorn dough and set it to raise. My […]
Home Ec and Carrots and Drilling {hello monday}
Here we go a’drillin’ wheat down in the worked-up ground… Hello to helping cut some beans and then hopping into more wheat drilling prep and starting to cultivate and to drill~ Hello to carrot harvest! Tucker helped Grandma dig carrots and she sent a bunch home with him. Aren’t they so pretty? I love the […]
Lego Pirate Ship
This was Tucker’s building project the week before last. He worked on it here and there most of the week. He really enjoys building and designing Lego creations. He builds something and keeps it for a while and then when inspiration strikes, he starts his next creation. He always enjoys showing his projects to us […]
The Kitchen {Heart of the Home}
A kitchen brings life to a house. A kitchen can be the heart of the home. I was struck by this thought and revelation a little while back and how it played out in our house. Here’s the longish back story: When we moved into our new-to-us house, it came equipped with a basement kitchen, […]
A Trampoline, Pool Noodles, and a Pinterest-Inspired Idea
A Trampoline We were blessed by our neighbors a few years ago, in the form of a trampoline. Our children were thrilled and have spent more hours than I ever imagined they would, bouncing and pretending and doing flips. My son especially loves the trampoline and you will find him on it almost every day. […]
Celebrations, Pinterest Project, Family~
It’s hello to a new week! Summer is winging itself away it seems. Matthew and I often look at each other at the end of a week and say, “Where did the week go?” or “What did we get done?” or “It was a week ago already when we did that?” We had visitors arrive […]
In Which We Find More Kittens and Meet Ourselves Coming and Going {Hello Monday}
Our week was a blend of busy and hectic and feeling the push and pull of things that needed done all at once. Life has its times like that and June often is that way around here! This week may be a lot the same. The wheat is ready to cut and there were combines […]
Dear Mom and Dad~
Dear Mom and Dad, If you were here we could…. sit on the front porch and drink iced tea or lemonade if there was some lemonade made and if my small son hadn’t drunk it all. We could…. look at the wheat and chat about this and that and catch up on things […]
Summer Stuff {Hello Monday}
Hello to summer weather and temperatures arriving! It was high 90’s and even 101 last week. Hello to early morning walks and to watering and weeding. Hello to planting some more sweet corn and hello to mowing. Hello to summertime activities and fun! Hello to wheat that’s turning golden and hello to a Sunday harvest […]
Summertime Activity Fun
Summertime! I look forward to it. It means sunshine and long days and a break from school. It also means 100 degrees and above, on many days. Which means I am so, so thankful for air conditioning. It is busy and lazy all mixed together in a colorful blend. Summertime brings wheat harvest time upon […]
Campfires, Coin Collecting and Corn Planting {hello monday}
Hello to a Sunday evening campfire from a whole week ago! It was a beautiful spring evening with no wind at all. We enjoyed being outside and relaxing and snacking. Hello to chopping and drinking and marshmallows! Hello to homemade coin collections and having fun sorting through pennies and looking at the dates on each […]
Marriage Musings
Sixteen years. I sit here and stare at the cursor blinking on the screen and at the words I’ve just typed and I laugh. I rejoice in the blessing of years. I laugh at the absurdity of how fast sixteen years can fly by. I smile when I remember my wedding day. I laugh that […]
Everyday Blessings {Hello Monday}
Hello to busy workers clearing dirt and mulch out of a flower bed. We’ve wanted to get this done ever since we started working on our house and then moved in. The wind whips the mulch and dirt right down in front of the basement doors. We’re hoping to get some rock to fill the […]