Levi and the boys have been working on the long awaited barn. He decided to build it right around The Shack because he felt like too many outbuildings would be clutter. I’m not sure how all that works, but he has a vision and usually they turn out beautiful. I am excited to fill it […]
The barn project
We got Jack about a year ago to keep Emily company in the fields. There is kind of a funny story behind Jack’s delivery. I had found him on Craigslist and being small town I wasn’t terribly surprised that we knew who the sellers were. We set up a delivery time. The delivery time came […]
Claire & Violet making pumpkin ladies (I seriously thought about combing Violet’s hair, but the thought exhausted me) We had the annual Autumn Festival on Wednesday. I started my chicken tortilla soup at 2 pm, but I am so slow at the moment that I didn’t finish it until 6pm. I should have planned something […]
photo taken out the kitchen window this morning I love waking up to the windows glowing orange from the morning sunrise. A perfect day for our annual Windy Ridge Autumn Festival. With only around 30 guests this year it will be a simple affair. Soup potluck and pumpkin carving. Today I am going through inventory […]
Taken with my iPhone this morning. Simon isn’t going to let anyone sneak up. Finally. I am 3 months pregnant, but it took forever. If you ever want to slow down time, get sick and pregnant. Now that I am entering the 2nd trimester I feel like I am on the downhill side of this. […]
Jace took this photo out the living room window. The mountain emerges from the clouds adorned in snow. I am still here, plodding through this first trimester. Spending my entire day sitting in a chair and nibbling tiny bits of Granny Smith apples. I can see the disastrous kitchen from where I am sitting and […]
iPhone photo: taken the other evening of Sabra reading to the younger kids I will start with the sad because I like to end with happy. I had this notion that once I got through Christopher’s memorial service last week that I would simply move on. Easier said than done. I keep going back […]
Saturday was a sad day. The day of Christopher’s memorial service. A day for weeping and wailing and wearing Carhartts. Sunday was better. We brought the kids to town for lunch and then Anna and Mutti came to visit. We all gathered around fresh crab and melted butter in the kitchen. Later we had pumkin […]
I wish I wasn’t writing this post. I was walking around in the fabric store yesterday when I got a simple text from my mom. Did you hear about Chris V? My heart dropped. I looked at the corner of my phone screen and saw that I had missed a text from my 17 year […]