Winner of the book giveaway, comment #34: MamaWestWind said… Awesome! We love these books and have a couple more to collect yet. Thanks so much! Thanks everyone for entering! I encourage you all to run off and read some of Reg...
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It’s easy to get caught up in the house right now. So much to do–the list keeps growing, and our wallet keeps thinning…anyway, I need a little break from that. So, I’ll share a bit about the outside–which is what...
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You may or may not have noticed the link in the sidebar to The Wonderful World of Tiptoes Lightly and her gang. Well, in the Spring we discovered a new love for a collection of stories that revolve around her and her friends. The books are great...
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If you haven’t watched every season of Friday Night Lights I suggest you do. Now. I’m not sure why a drama about a high school football team hit so close to home for me, but you just can’t help but root for the team, for the...
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Thanks for all the supportive comments on the last post, and the emails and messages and hugs. It means so much to us. We took a short long trip. In other words, we drove far and didn’t stay long enough. My family comes from NW Pennsylvania...
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We closed on a ‘new’ home Friday evening. Here’s a cross section of the months that have lead to this, and how I feel about it all. Early this spring we began looking for a home, there hasn’t been much on the market that...
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Oh. My. There is so much to say; so much moving and changing. Miracle babies, new old dirty houses, adventures in beekeeping, the garden, growing girls, summer in general. I haven’t been here because I don’t know where to...
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Yes, we are still on this band-wagon. And, while I can’t say I know for sure that in health we’re a whole lot better off, we have completely replaced sandwich bread with homemade sourdough, and slowly I’ve begun using our...
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We had a great field trip to the local butterfly farm. It was a wonderful homeschooling adventure, lots of learning and exploring. The information part was nearly as good as the learning, plus we picnicked and enjoyed field games. We highly...
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Cherry picking was a great success! We went to Ayer’s in Cana, Va. It’s about an hour and a half from here, but so beautiful. They were sweet enough to let us in to pick a day early, so we had the orchard nearly to ourselves. Eliza...
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Eliza is already a year old. This is ridiculous. She’s walking, signing, exploring, laughing, being stubborn and thriving in every way. She is truly fun and the snuggliest of all three. For no reason she’ll lay her head down on your...
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It’s traditional to ‘count the omer’ from the end of Passover to the beginning of Shavuot (the feast of weeks). The omer are grains of barley, and it’s neat to have that connection to the harvest and nature once again at...
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