I love the mud drawing that I found on my sidewalk artistically sketched by the elements of nature. It has intrigued me. I think it is beautiful and it portrays an essence of farm and my children. Muddy prints penciled and outlined from the muddy boots that had been dropped there by my son. His sister’s […]
Happy Birthday to a Delightful Glow!
One year ago today, I jumped into this thing called blogging! I’d been part of the world of blogging for a long time through reading and commenting on other blogs. But, a year ago today I typed my first blog post and began a journey with my own little piece of this thing called internet. […]
To Be A Mother Is To Forever Have Your Heart Walk Around Outside Your Body
My kiddos went to Ohio yesterday! They haven’t often went by themselves. The opportunity has not offered itself very often. When it did, at the end of last week, my husband said they should take it. And I agreed. We knew there would be grandparents on the other end that would be so, so happy […]
If You Have A Dear, Dear Husband…
If you have a dear, dear husband that you love, then you will want to celebrate him when his birthday rolls around. If you celebrate his birthday, then you might want to make a cake! If you make a cake, then you might want to make an angel food cake if that’s what your dear man […]
Good Service
Good service can’t be beat. It just can’t. I am all about good customer service! I like friendly cashiers and I like people who smile. I like stores that operate in the framework of wanting to serve the customer. We live sort of in the middle of nowhere and I like that fact, but that also means […]
Some of the Titles I’ve Recently Read
I like to have a book or two or three that I am reading and can pick up and read a chapter or two or three when I get a chance. Sometimes in the afternoon or early evening or at bedtime. Sometimes when I’m tired and just want to sit down. Sometimes when I have […]
Celebrate!
I am praising God today for the blessing of a free country. We may complain and there are directions that I do not like to see our country headed, but as long as we are living in a free country I will thank God for this huge blessing! I am grateful to the men and […]
Let’s Stay Home Today!
I have two kids that I think are pretty terrific. I’m really glad God gave them to us. And it’s really interesting to see the personalities He has given them. If we have stuff going on that takes us away from home more than a couple of days in a row, my kids are ready-more than […]
Sum, Sum, Summertime!
Summertime. The name offers a vision of hot, sunny days, ice-cold lemonade in a sweating glass, fun with friends, curling up in the hammock, reading a book, woven lawn chairs, fresh garden produce, long, lazy days, splashing in the water… I hear the sounds of summer. Sprinklers zinging. Locusts humming. Mowers running. The smell of chlorine from the pool makes me think […]
More On Wheat Harvest
Wheat harvest is such a major part of our lives. It comes and then it is gone. It goes by at lightning speed and at a turtle crawl all at the same time. There is nothing quite like watching all those golden fields disappear underneath the combines as they eat their way […]
Of Harvest and Busy and Animals, But Mostly the Animals
It’s been a busy couple of weeks! Harvest time. Just the words equate “BUSY” in my mind! It’s a good time and a blessed time, though. My cousin and her husband and four daughters and two sons were here for the first week of harvest. My cousin’s husband helped out in the fields and my […]
A Lesson From the Little Wooden Engines
Crazy. A kid at heart. Lover of personification. You could probably call it any of these things. They would all be accurate descriptions. Sentimental would catch it. This is sounding familiar. I think I mentioned some of these same things here. I sorted through our Thomas the Train engines and track this evening and moved them from […]
So Long, Farewell, Auf Wiedersehen, Good-bye
Sob. Sniff. I’m somewhat of a sentimentalist. I admit it. I’m sad. Don’t laugh. I’m sad over a combine. Nuts and bolts and metal and paint. And an auger and a clean grain elevator and memories. Sob. Sniff. You see, last fall an opportunity to upgrade our combine sort of fell into our laps. It […]
Kansas Day Trip
I took a Kansas day trip yesterday with my husband. We needed to go to eastern Kansas to pick up our four-wheeler and an irrigation motor. My husband’s very youngest brother is an awesome mechanic and he had been working on/fixing both of these things for us. We didn’t take the most direct route since we had […]
I Am Ecstatic!
My kitchen is cleaned up and I am ecstatic. I really am. I didn’t feel very well last week and I didn’t do much. I didn’t feel well, so I really didn’t feel like doing anything and yet, I had a list of things I really was wanting to get done. And when I don’t feel well […]
Habakkuk 3:17-18
Habbukkuk 3:17-18 Though the fig tree does not bud and there are no grapes on the vines, though the olive crop fails and the fields produce no food, though there are no sheep in the pen and no cattle in the stalls, yet I will rejoice in the Lord, I will be joyful in […]