Missing Mama

I’m missing my mom today. Our newest blessing is soon to arrive. There have been no homemade gifts from Grandmommy. There have been no evening calls to find out how things are going. She hasn’t gone with us for coming home outfits, nor offered to come out and help with the cooking to stock our freezer. Has it really been…

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The Geese Return

This is the only pair we’ve seen so far this year. They seem unusually friendly. In fact, they’ve been sitting most days just outside of my bathroom window. I think they may be nesting on top of our goat shed. Before too long, there will be a whole little family of geese…probably right about the time our own little family…

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Pie on Pi Day

Courtney was feeling her creative streak this week…. Pie on Pi Day (3/14)! 😀

When You Don’t Have Eggs…

there is probably a VERY good reason: Jacob was out on the back deck working on some school assignments this week after dark. He heard the hens and went to investigate. There were three sets of eyes staring back at him, (not from the hens). When he realized what they were, it was immediately obvious why we’ve not been finding…

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Spring on the Farmette…..

The smell of laundry that has hung on the line ….little girls playing in the yard…. I love spring. There is something of renewal in the air. Time for blooming flowers, little birds hatching, and a picture of God’s unending grace. It’s been a long week for our family. I lost a cousin this week. His unexpected death was painful,…

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It’s Been Said…

“It is never too late to be what you might have been.”                                                     ——George Eliott

It’s Been Said…

“Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.”                                                             —–Judy Garland 

It’s Been Said…

“It is the first mild day of March.  Each minute sweeter than before… There is a blessing to the air…”                                  —–William Wordsworth

It’s Been Said…

Tracy / February 24, 2014

“Repose is a quality too many undervalue….In the clamor one is irresistibly drawn to the woman who sits gracefully relaxed, who keeps her hands still, talks in a low voice and listens with responsive eyes and smiles.  She creates  a spell around her, charming to the ear, the eye and the mind. “              …

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