If you follow us on Instagram, you’ll have seen a bit of our 12th anniversary story. But I wanted to give the whole story to you all. It all started with us getting up at 5:30 am to make sure the triplet kids that were born the Thursday before were fed. Their mama did not […]
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Over the last many months, randomly Dave or I would look at each other and say something like, “This is something we should be blogging about,” and yet neither of us would pull the trigger. Why that is, I’m not really sure. I felt this pressure that we needed to be actually accomplishing something in […]
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I enjoy listening to sports talk radio. When I am driving or doing some work around the house, I’m usually listening to either a podcast or sports radio, so I am generally current with the goings-on of the national sports scene. There comes a point however, where you can only take so much of a […]
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It’s official. I can cross off “Land a role as pirate” from me ol’ bucket list. After a brilliant audition I was named “Starkey,” complete with a spattering of speaking lines and a dramatic death scene. My childhood dreams that turned into adulthood fantasies are finally come to fruition. OK, OK, that’s not entirely true. […]
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It’s summertime, which means so many buzzing bees. Grab your kids, a paper and something to draw/write with, and gather around! It’s time for DTWD!
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This new year, each member of our family chose a single word for the year and made a little art to more fully capture our idea. My word for the year is “persist.” You can read in previous blog posts at the amount of failure I’ve contributed to, so I won’t go into it here. […]
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A few years ago, I exercised some seriously bad judgement. Judgment so bad that I ended up earning a spot on the local news. The headline ran something like “Local idiot starts big fire.” Let me explain. We have not had the privilege of buying “good land” in our homestead journey. We’ve not had the […]
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At this point in my homesteading journey, I can say that I have a little bit of experience. Experience has taught me some valuable lessons, and two of those lessons are 1) If you have a weak spot in a fence, you have no fence at all, and 2) goats are great testers of character. Putting up […]
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(I wrote this fully meaning to publish right away…and then LIFE. There’s been a whole lot of doing the last 4 days. A. Lot. Phew! But here it is…still rings true whether published on time or not. 😉 ) I (Jessica) am home alone tonight….well, with the 3 middles…and my mind is….well, I wish I […]
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I still remember asking that question about so many subjects in high school and college- particularly in math. I couldn’t see why I would ever to figure the area of a triangle or the volume of a cubic rectangle. Or the classic stumper of two trains leaving at different times and traveling at different speeds […]
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