Walkin' in High Cotton

I don’t talk much about work here. Actually, besides mentioning that I work full time and it makes our schedule kinda crazy, it’s something I sort of keep away from here. (And I don’t see that changing, don’t worry! I know not everyone shares my passion for discussing the visual characteristics of hardi-board siding, or [...]

This weekend I sat down to finish up some covered journals and decided that the scraps would make some lovely gift tags. I got a little carried away and ended up just going and going even when I ran out of scraps and starting in on brand new paper. I liked the way the scraps [...]

I mentioned last week that we’re trying to add in some life skills homeschooling around here. It’s adding an interesting dimension to our already busy days. Mondays we have riding lessons, Tuesdays the Ladybug has piano lessons, so the boys and I have cooking, and Wednesday we have church and bible clubs. Then, of course, [...]

This post is not about a children’s book. The other day the crew was sitting at the breakfast table before school and Speedracer started hollering about a spider outside. “Ewwww. There’s a spiDer on the porch!” (He’s been reminded about the “d” so much it’s a whole new syllable for him now.) Now, spiders are [...]

We’ve been having horse issues. {If you think, even in your wildest dreams, that you might want a horse, please read this post and keep it in the back of your mind while you’re mulling those thoughts over.} Perhaps I should preface that by saying that we’re not “horse people.” Which probably sounds odd, since [...]

Lately I feel like every day ends with me so wrung out and limp that I can’t move off the couch, even to climb in bed. First we have to deal with Speedracer’s trouble adjusting to K3 when we read his teacher note every evening and have to sit and talk about what “disobedience” means [...]

I’ve been pretty busy lately getting ready for my first craft show in October.  (So excited!!) Unfortunately, the Fresh blog was also infected with the malware problem I had recently over here at High Cotton and it’s a mess right now and taking a lot of my time to sort out. (But the Storefront is [...]

I mentioned yesterday that we let our boys ride a mechanical bull at the Farm Show over the weekend. Yep, both of them. Even my baby. The guy that was managing it was super-nice. I didn’t realize that they were hand-controlled. He could make it go as fast or slow as he wanted and could [...]

Normally this time of year we would be exhibiting at the County Fair, but this year we decided to try something different and went to a Fair instead of working the Fair. So we loaded up the kids and headed out of town to Field Days of the Past. I wasn’t expecting it to be [...]

Have you ever heard of chaos theory and the butterfly effect? The idea that there are so many teeny-tiny variables that effect things that you can’t actually predict what will happen, or determine which action caused the final outcome. How often do we tread this course of (hysterically) over-analyzing when things go wrong? What did [...]