I’ve always had a pretty deep seated dislike for winter. Mostly because I’m always cold and Steve’s always hot, and, well, open windows in the middle of January makes me cranky. Living in a neighborhood less than 15 minutes from almost anywhere we wanted or needed to be, I got used to dressing rather inappropriately for the weather. Hair doesn’t fit under a hat today? No biggie, the car heats up pretty fast. Can’t find my gloves? Oh well, it’s…
Christmas was as Christmas usually tends to be around here: hectic. There were plenty of ugly moments in the days leading up, including Daniel cutting his own hair and one of the older boys deciding to glue a Christmas card to the wall when they couldn’t find the tape. However, there was a lot of beauty in there too. I work at our church as a cantor/soloist, and really, is there anything more beautiful than Christmas Eve services?? And I…
The quotes in the title might need a bit of explaining. I have to put “recipe” in quotation marks because while I’ve included a recipe, it’s really more a method to make one of our favorite breakfasts. If I were to write my own cookbook, it probably wouldn’t include many recipes. It would be a compilation of methods for dishes that are easy to make, hard to screw up and with only a few ingredients. Most of those ingredients would be would be…
Steve has mentioned a project that we’ve been working on in a couple of past posts. Well, we finally brought that project home: two dairy goats! I can’t tell you how relieved I was when we picked them up. I’d heard plenty of talk about how friendly goats can be, but I know that they also have the reputation for, well, getting into trouble. My imagination had us getting dragged to the van, then wrestling two…
Just when you’ve decided you’re officially in over your head… Just when you’re beating yourself up because you’re behind in homeschooling, behind in homesteading, behind in the laundry, behind in pretty much everything… Just when you’re wondering whether or not the three little ruffians that you call ‘children’ will ever find a place in this world outside of the monkey house at the zoo… Just when the decibel level at your house has reached…