About a month after moving into our new hobby farm, I told my friend Michelle that I was homesick. The whole hobby farm gig was beautiful but it was also a lot harder than we expected. It felt like we […]
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I love taking long walks along my picturesque country road. Out here I can be completely alone to think, pray, and just take a break. While strolling along, one thing that never fails to affront …
I'm not a Halloween grinch. But I am close. Its a stupid holiday, really. In a nutshell - parents spend oodles of time, money, or some combo thereof on costumes only to run around and collect …
Yesterday my husband and I hiked up a mountain trail along the rim of Lake Tahoe. The air was crisp. Pine trees towered over us. The wind whistled through the branches. Birds called to each …
When Dave and I bought our hobby farm, I was enamored with the fact that we would have a little wooded area in the corner of the property. I loved how my kids would have …
Every so often I get a cockamamie idea. Well, that's what my husband would tell you anyway. They always seem like good ideas to me. And ever since God placed in my heart a desire …
At some point this summer our sweet babysitter brought my kids a Monarch butterfly egg. To me it looked like a milkweed leaf with some dirt on it. She promised me an egg was on …
When I was growing up, my mom tried all sorts of chore systems to encourage her four children to get off their lazy rear ends and help out. Ultimately she went with this innovation: a …
I am not going to lie ... back to school euphoria is hard on me. In my early days of homeschooling I had a devil may care attitude about the whole thing. Back then I …
Last fall my daughter decided that she couldn't possibly navigate adolescence without a chalkboard wall in her room. I made a big fuss about how her room was already finished and she'd just have to live …
