What?? I have TWO children in double digits now?? Happy 10th Birthday Caleb! Caleb requested pineapple upside-down cake for his family party, and it just so happened that there were 10 pineapples in which to place candles. 🙂 (I had to make cupcakes for church friends AND chocolate chip cookies for his baseball team. …
Look what I found in a small tree IN MY YARD yesterday!! (Sorry the closer pictures are a little blurry. You can imagine that I was standing at a distance using the zoom!) They were only there for a couple of hours and then gone without leaving a trace. I had no idea what was…
As I was taking a picture of this the other day… I heard this zoom past me… He was off to help his Daddy. And when they were finished with all their manly jobs, the tractors were parked.
Tucked away in downtown Maysville, KY, overlooking the Ohio River is the National Underground Railroad Museum. My children had the pleasure of touring the museum located in the Bierbower House, which was a safe house for runaway slaves. Crawling through an underground tunnel that opened into a small room of four beds, runaway slaves could…
Eli attended the Mother-Daughter Banquet with us this year. He wanted to look special, so he added a very handsome tie to his outfit. With a strawberry spongecake smile he posed for this most precious of pictures.
Goats! The kiddos are going to try their hand at showing goats at the fair this summer. They’re just as cute as can be, but I hear horror stories about goats carrying lice. (Gasp!) I’m amazed at how much fun my children and husband have “playing” with animals and hanging out at the barn. Me,…
Ah, it’s summer break and I’ve finally found some time to nourish “mother culture”. Charlotte Mason encouraged momma’s to dive into living books, too! If we’re truly encouraging the idea of a lifelong love of learning in our homes, then we must also love learning. (I must admit that my “selfish” moments of “learning” are…
Below are some pictures of our farm during the recent flooding of Central KY (and other places.) I know it’s hard to tell that the land is flooded if you aren’t familiar with what it looks like typically. Rest assured – this was a FLOOD! We estimate about 45 acres (three bottom land fields) were…
You may remember me telling you about our bottle fed calf that was truly a giant baby when he was born. Well, not only is he still a literal big baby, he’s a figurative big baby as well! I’ve never seen a calf take to my children like this one. He follows them around the…
Classical Academic Press was so kind to offer me their God’s Great Covenant: Old Testament 2 Bible curriculum for review. I could’ve chosen the first in the series, Old Testament 1, but decided on the second book because it covers the Bible from Samuel to Malachi. I don’t know about you, but I don’t…
This is Tony, my music minister from the church where I grew up. Tony has always been very active in serving others in the name of Christ. For the past 25 years, he’s worked monthly to organize food and helpers to serve the needy at the local soup kitchen. We were blessed to help serve…
I’m planning to get my act together with preschool during summer break. I’ve found it really hard to add Eli into the schedule and his time has suffered more than I had hoped. We still manage to do fun things, just not quite as often as I’d like. Here are a few things we’ve done…