when east meets south
We cooked. We ate. And, after sleeping off the turkey-induced coma, we romped around the back leaf-strewn acreage. With a quick stop for some chicken-snuggles. (No, we do not eat our chickens. Even the crowing ones.) Indescribably thankful for this season, this family, and this sweet life. The Lord has been so good to me.
Halloween 2018 was one for the books. The last few years have found us keeping our kiddos close, due mostly to Clementine’s initial surprise diagnosis and resulting surgery, as well as Magnolia’s heart surgery and artificial valve placement (putting them both in the “fragile” category for a season). But last year, on our way home from our typical Halloween-ing at… Read More
Poppy. What a joy she is in the everyday. And celebrating her makes us all smile. She is loving and kind. She is funny and always able to laugh at herself. I might be biased, but I certainly can’t take any credit for how amazing she is. She’s pretty darn wonderful. And her siblings think so too. She’s also surprisingly… Read More
Some days bring the most wonderful surprises. August 17th was one of those days. Out of the blue I got a text about a Boston terrier. And not just any Boston terrier, y’all. It was Cyrus’ littermate. He had successfully completed his show career and the breeder wanted to gift him with retirement into a pet family that would love… Read More
(Alternately Titled Sarah the Dream Cow) I’ve loved horses for as long as I can remember. Cows? Not so much. I’d had over-the-fence encounters with cows, some good, some not-so-good, and hadn’t quite made up my mind about them in general. But several years ago I began to have an interest in having a cow. I mean, wouldn’t it be… Read More
We don’t really do back-to-school stuff anymore. Not that I don’t want to, it’s just a bit anti-climactic when you homeschool… The first day just sorta feels like just another day, but with a stack of new curriculum. If I were a planner, and the tiniest bit organized, I might do just back-to-school photos on the first day of the… Read More
Sophie has wanted a pet for years. Years, y’all. But this girl is a planner. A thinker. And she wasn’t going to just jump head-first into pet ownership like a crazy person. She needed time to research. Gather information and experiences of others to best determine which little critter would be the perfect little love for her. First she thought… Read More
Yep. If you’re keeping count, this is our third batch of chicks since spring. Some call it chicken math. I’m not sure what to call it other than a ridiculous amount of fluffy cuteness. The first two chicks we bought in March – as hatching eggs – that were shipped to us and eventually hatched out and raised by our… Read More
Being a military family has its share of challenges. One of them was that we had to move every two to three years, no matter what. Most of the time we were able to sell our homes, God just always seemed to work it out. But when we moved away from Maine the market was soft. And we loved our… Read More
He’s a graduate. And this milestone marks so much more than his completion of high school. He’s my first child that I really, truly (and only out of absolute necessity) homeschooled. And I use the term “homeschool” pretty liberally because, for at least the first few years, we made some big mistakes. Both of us. But we persevered. And we… Read More