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Great Football Movies for the Family

Walking in High Cotton Posted on June 27, 2017 by Jamie OliverMarch 30, 2020 12
Great football movies for the family...inspiration and motivation for kids. via Walking in High Cotton

Well, we registered the boys for football this Fall. Practice doesn’t start until August, but we’ve started accumulating their gear. And they are so excited that they’ve started wearing it around the house and to do their chores, especially walking the dogs. You know, just to get used to it. {smile} Speedracer is particularly excited about it and has been filling all his extra summer minutes with football movies–which then inspire him to throw his gear on and run around the backyard like a gridiron superstar. When it comes to sports … Continue Reading…

Posted in Farm Family | Tagged busy family, faith and family values, farm kids, movies | 12 Replies

Easy DIY Luggage Tags

Walking in High Cotton Posted on July 25, 2017 by Jamie OliverMarch 30, 2020 7
Easy DIY Luggage Tags from chipboard and scrapbook paper via Walking in High Cotton

As I wrote last week with our Summer Camp Packing lists (did you download your FREE copy?) our kiddos have been adventuring away from home a lot this summer. They visited my sister, my mother-in-law, and now church camp. This is Speedracer’s first year at church camp and we’ve developed several little rites of passage for the first year. One is that they get their first toiletry bag (or shaving kit bag for the boys) and one is that they get their personalized luggage tags. This is an easy and … Continue Reading…

Posted in Farm Home | Tagged busy family, crafting, faith and family values, farm kids, made with love, summer, travel, working mom | 7 Replies

Kids Need More Than Book-Learning

Walking in High Cotton Posted on September 30, 2014 by Jamie OliverMarch 30, 2020 2
Kids Need More than Book Learning...I've become strongly opposed to homework. I need those hours back to teach them all the OTHER things they need to know! {via www.walkinginhighcotton.net}

Ok, we’re not even a month into the school year and I’m already over the homework. Sheesh. I’m just the Momma, it’s not even my homework! And the more I read and think and pray, the more oppose to homework I am, except for two cases… The child is not being diligent and getting their classwork finished and has to bring it home to work on it. This would go hand-in-hand with a student with a specific learning challenge that needs extra work. (Um, we have one of those. Maybe two. … Continue Reading…

Posted in Farm Family, Farm School | Tagged books, faith and family values, farm kids | 2 Replies

A Tough Row to Hoe

Walking in High Cotton Posted on August 1, 2014 by Jamie OliverMarch 30, 2020  

You know something I struggle with? Not getting my own way. {smile} But you know what’s REALLY hard? Compromising what I want for what I know is right–and things are STILL not easy. For some reason (Christian immaturity, probably!) I feel like when I submit to God in something, the clouds should break open and sunshine should pour through and everything should become rainbows and roses and suddenly I’m on easy street. I mean, I’m doing the Will of God–that means it should be easy, right? Ha! Not so much. … Continue Reading…

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The Value of Serving TOGETHER

Walking in High Cotton Posted on September 11, 2014 by Jamie OliverMarch 30, 2020 3
The value of serving TOGETHER, as a couple, in your church or community. {via www.walkinginhighcotton.net}

If you follow us on Facebook, you might have seen some of our summer posts about Mr. Fix-It and I leading a VBS class together this past summer. Not just being someone else’s helper, but planning, teaching, and leading our own class. Together. It was a completely new experience for us, as individuals and as a couple. I’ll just come right out and admit that I was nervous. One, because it was new. And two, because Mr. Fix-It and I are very different personality-wise and this kind of activity really, … Continue Reading…

Posted in Farm Family | Tagged faith and family values, farm kids | 3 Replies

Forest Sunrise and Taking Deep Breaths…the Daily Farm Adventures

Walking in High Cotton Posted on September 14, 2015 by Jamie OliverMarch 30, 2020 2

Sometimes walking the dogs at 5 or 6 o’clock in the morning lets you see some wonderful moments. Like the the way the sunrise lights through the foggy woods like a forest fire. And it lets you do a lot of thinking. Like about the school year starting soon and how awful the beginning was last year…and how you survived it. And it got better. And getting to the other side of it might have redeemed that heartache a little. Now we know we can do it. We’re ready to … Continue Reading…

Posted in Farm Family | Tagged daily farm adventures, daily grind, faith and family values | 2 Replies

Spring Break with Simple and Frugal Family Fun

Walking in High Cotton Posted on April 14, 2017 by Jamie OliverMarch 30, 2020  

The crew has been on Spring Break lately, so I’ve been hashing together a schedule between work and home to spend time with them–even if it occasionally means I’m working while they’re playing. It’s a joy to be able to hear them laughing (and squealing!) in the background! What are some of the simple and frugal (actually, mostly FREE) family fun we’ve been enjoying this week? Well, scrubbing water troughs for one! The kiddos had to empty, scrub and refill all the water troughs. Since we just recently rotated the … Continue Reading…

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I Think Perhaps I Will Write Again

Walking in High Cotton Posted on July 7, 2014 by Jamie OliverMarch 30, 2020 2

I think perhaps I will write again. I think perhaps I have words again. I think perhaps I have missed the weight of my camera in my hand. Perhaps it is a lie that a “smartphone” can meet all our needs in one neat little device. Perhaps there is a need for more than one lens. Perhaps there is a need for time, a need to find time, a need to slow down the moments and run our fingers through them as they flow by. Perhaps there is a need … Continue Reading…

Posted in Farm Work | Tagged faith and family values, grieving and growing | 2 Replies

Over the River and Through the Woods…the Daily Farm Adventures {76}

Walking in High Cotton Posted on November 3, 2014 by Jamie OliverMarch 30, 2020  

This weekend was the weekend we had planned for our Master Club hike with our church junior group (4th-6th grade)…so naturally it rained. {smile} We didn’t let a little foggy, cold, misty, rain stop us! Nope, we loaded them up on the bus and headed out! We took them to the tree farm and walked around for a couple hours talking about growing trees, forest life cycles, wildlife habitat, environmental concerns in the Chesapeake Bay, and what is means to respect the land they visit for hiking or camping. We … Continue Reading…

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Serving Muslim Customers at the Farm as Christians…the Daily Farm Adventures {71}

Walking in High Cotton Posted on October 6, 2014 by Jamie OliverMarch 30, 2020 8
Serving Muslim customers at the farm, as Christians. Our experiences, and a few common mis-understandings. via Walking in High Cotton

We had our lamb harvest day on Saturday this year, so we’re wrapping up another sold-out lambing season here at The Lowe Farm. 90% of our customers are repeat customers, or a referral from a regular customer, and this is our 4th sold out year. Mr. Fix-It and I had a long talk the other day and we decided that being more transparent in our experiences might have a lot of value for our readers, and maybe some other small farmers out there. Based on some of the…um…unkind comments that we have … Continue Reading…

Posted in Farm Work | Tagged daily farm adventures, faith and family values, harvest and market, lambing | 8 Replies

When There Are No Last Moments…Grieving and Growing

Walking in High Cotton Posted on October 22, 2014 by Jamie OliverMarch 30, 2020 3
Thoughts on learning acceptance from sudden grief via www.walkinginhighcotton.net Grieving, growing, and faith. #orphan

All this chatter about Brittany Maynard makes me sad. Not just for her–although I have found myself praying for her so often since hearing her story–but for everyone in the conversation. So many hurting hearts. So many dealing with tough, tough choices. But what makes me so sad about this talk of “death with dignity” is that it assumes that cancer is taking your choices away and there is a way to wrestle control back from it and be in charge of “the end” yourself. I can see where you … Continue Reading…

Posted in Farm Family | Tagged faith and family values, grieving and growing | 3 Replies

Heartbreak and Mercy in Real Time

Walking in High Cotton Posted on January 21, 2011 by Jamie OliverMarch 30, 2020 4
Heartbreak and Mercy in Real Time...Lessons in Life from how God helps animals let go. via Walking in High Cotton

This past long weekend,  we had some good times as a family. Unfortunately, not everything about last weekend was rainbows and ribbons. Farm life rarely is. {Note: The pictures below may be disturbing to people unfamiliar with the birth processes of animals, although I’ve tried to judiciously crop out some of the more…unsettling…aspects.} It started out like good news. We were shoving everyone into their coats and hats and heading out to pick up a load of hay on Sunday when Mr. Fix-It looked out the back door and saw one … Continue Reading…

Posted in Farm Family, Farm Work | Tagged cows, faith and family values, grieving and growing | 4 Replies

Problem Solving Farm Kids…Thankful on a Thursday {LINK UP} 04/07/2011

Walking in High Cotton Posted on April 7, 2011 by Jamie OliverFebruary 13, 2020 1

The last two weeks, I’ve finally got my fingers on the book One Thousand Gifts–A Dare to Live Fully, Right Where You Are by Ann Voskamp over at A Holy Experience, and started the journey of reading through it. Wow! It’s powerful, but it’s not an easy read. I’m not saying it’s not good–it’s excellent. But it’s deep. And poetic. And raw. All at the same time. I’m quite the avid reader, but I find that it’s not a book I can hurry through. I haven’t been able to read … Continue Reading…

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Farm Kids

Walking in High Cotton Posted on November 8, 2011 by Jamie OliverFebruary 13, 2020 14

I’m so proud of my kiddos. I really am. Sometimes I forget that they’re only 7, 4, and 3. (And even though the Ladybug is 7, when she does stuff around here she’s not cooperating with peers. She’s collaborating with a 3 and 4 year old.) On Friday, before I left for the Ladies Retreat, I sent them out by themselves to move some water buckets around for some new sheep we got. It was foggy, cold, and rainy. They had to open and close gates and make sure that … Continue Reading…

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Mud on the Tires

Walking in High Cotton Posted on March 19, 2013 by Jamie OliverSeptember 8, 2019 1

Sometimes life around here gets a little mucky. Sometime we get stuck in the mud and need someone to pull us out. The World likes to tell us that this is unusual. That it’s the sign of a problem. That life should be easier and tough times mean we’re doing something wrong. That we shouldn’t need to ask for help. But that’s not really true. It really just means that it’s been raining. And if there’s one thing that life on the farm teaches you, it’s that the rain always … Continue Reading…

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