Walkin' in High Cotton

Our holiday weekend included lots of family time.  Mr. Fix-It was able to be home Thursday thru Saturday and most of Sunday too, even though he was on-call for work, and his sister came to visit for the weekend.  So we took the crew to the Virgina Living Museum.  This trip has been on my [...]

Have you heard that new song from Lady Antebellum, Hello World?  (You can hear it on their site by clicking on the Now Playing box on the left sidebar) I didn’t get it at first, but the more I hear it and think about it, the more I really love it now.  It expresses how [...]

“Me Time” is a hot topic these days. Everyone needs me-time, wants me-time, or doesn’t have any me-time. As a busy wife, mother, employee, and farmer,  I do still manage to hammer out occasional me-time (thanks Mr. Fix-It!)–and then suffer crushing  mommy-guilt for it, usually.  (I mean serious, from floors to faces, there is always [...]

Ok, ok, I make a lot of mistakes as a parent.  Yes, a lot of them.  And one of them is that I try to relate complicated biblical and social messages to our daily life.  Ok, maybe the problem isn’t that I do this–it’s that I don’t do it well. Take this morning… The kiddos [...]

I feel a little out of sorts today and have a lot on my mind.  So here’s a stream of conscious post for you to enjoy…maybe…along with completely random pictures I’ve been digging out for scrapbooking and just can’t help but smile each time I see them… We’ve decided not to celebrate our Christmas with [...]

Being a parent is tough.  On the parents.  The other day the Ladybug and I had the most ridiculous conversation. Her: Mom, can you teach me to drive when I’m 11? Me (distracted while driving and trying to find a pen under the seat): Uh, no, you have to be 16. Her: But you said [...]

Here’s the birthday card I sent to my sister.  I’m really happy with how it turned out! She likes purple and butterflies and I had the perfect fancy little embellishment in my stash. I don’t even remember exactly where I got it from, but it had a magnet on the back I had to remove.  [...]

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This weekend we processed chickens.  About 50 of them.  A couple got a pass because they too small to bother with.  For now.  Last time we did this I made the kids stay in the house and watch a movie.  This time Mr. Fix-It thought they could handle it and would be fine being outside [...]

Around here we don’t have weekends.  We have Stay-Home Days.  You can’t really have a weekend when most of the household doesn’t really grasp the concept of a “week” anyway.  But we’ve got “school-days” and “stay-home days” down. So what are we doing this stay-home day?  Well, as I type Mr. Fix-It and the Cowboy [...]