Our farm has a rich 1800’s history.  And considering the arrowheads we find occasionally, probably a lot of prior history as well.
I’ve told you before about how we find 19th and 20th century garbage as we plow the garden every year.  Near the garden spot once stood a large red brick home with a rock [...]

I’m a procrastinator.  Big time.  I do my best work under pressure.  At least that’s what I tell myself. 
I’ve had a summer to-do list a mile long since the beginning of May.  Some of the projects I intended to accomplish were (are) quite big.  Like painting both of the children’s bedrooms.  Once Eli was [...]

I promised an update on how the Motivated Moms chore system is working for me.  I’ve been at it one month now and I’m keeping up with chores better than I have in years.  I’m even doing some chores that haven’t been done in years! 
What do I like about it?
*I like having a week’s [...]

Our toys are in jail.  They have visitation rights, but very limited.  You see, since I couldn’t lock the messy children up, the toys had to be the ones to suffer.
They’ve been in jail for almost a month now and the time apart from the children seems to be doing everyone well.
We took every toy [...]

Two of my favorite things to do are planning and organizing.  Yes, that may be a little weird, but I can’t help myself. 
Since Christmas, I’ve been in a spring cleaning sort of mode.  Bags and bags of Goodwill giveaways have been loaded.  Bags and boxes of baby things have been given back to [...]