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May 06
Simple Pleasures
Today was filled with all the simple things in life. I woke up before the alarm to a windless day and sun shining through my curtains making pretty shadows on my bedroom wall. While I lay there waking up I felt such comfort in my homemade quilt that I was snuggled under. When …
Apr 26
Therapy
Today started out to be an emotional one, as it is the fourth anniversary of my sister’s death. I woke finding myself sort of getting emotional and weepy. So I decided it was time to get my head and heart busy today. I go to my kitchen or my art studio when I need “therapy”. …
Apr 18
Veggie Tales
Today I found some marked down celery and a few bags of marked down carrots. I know my chickens love all of those things but I thought I would buy them and dehydrate them for soups/stews etc. I used my mother’s old slicer and made carrot chips and lined two trays of my little dehydrator. …
Apr 16
Beauty
Beautiful… how do you describe the word “beautiful”? Over the last few days I have observed people making some pretty serious judgments on that very word. Society has a pretty harsh standard that the world is suppose to live up to in order to be “beautiful”. Perfect hair, perfect teeth, tall, slender, puffy lips, …
Apr 10
Complainer Or Doer?
Today I had a thought.. am I a complainer or a doer? Taking a good look at yourself sometimes is a scary thing to do. I found myself whining to myself about a few things and had to stop myself and say “Hey! Knock it off, quit whining about it and do something to help!” …
Apr 10
Our Story
After all of these years of home schooling my kids and now they are grown, I still get the same ol’ questions. Why? How did you get started? How did you know you could teach them? And the list goes on! This is our story….. I have three children, at the time Brianne (our oldest …
Apr 09
Sniff
A sniff, a deep breath, an inhale. Who loves the smell of horse poop? <raisin’ hand> I do!!! I spent the afternoon in a muddy corral with 22 horses surrounding me. I was home. My soul felt as if it returned. The hair on my clothes from the shedding horses, the mud on my boots …
Apr 05
John Stamos At The Kentucky Derby
First of all, we both know you clicked on this entry because you were wondering.. hmm.. what the heck is she talking about. Well, last night I had a whackydoodle dream about the Kentucky Derby. Me, being a pretty big “tomboy” was all lacy and in a dress with one of those typical derby …
Apr 05
Building The Coop
You know it’s spring when you wake up to the sound of week old chicks in a rubbermaid container sitting on your kitchen table. I bought them last Saturday when they were only two days old. I bought a dozen of them and lost one Monday morning. I wasn’t surprised when one died because being …
Apr 02
Wifey Lifey
What Do You Do For A Living? I can’t count the times, whether it be on bank paperwork, in general conversations or filling out insurance information that the entire world needs to know what you do for a living. How does one write what a stay at home wife/mother does for a living. Most of …