We have been slaving away at the new house, madly working to get it safe and secure for all the critters when we migrate them over on April 1st, and spending MONTHS searching for chicken coop ideas that we could […]
It has been 2 years since I have planned a kids birthday party. I used to be pretty good at this kind of thing, but over the last while my skills and abilities to "toss …
I have never done a wordless wednesday - I am far too wordy for that. But I needed to share these pics with you. The first pic was taken wednesday Feb 19th, 2014. The 2nd pic …
I am not a patient person. If something needs to happen, I like it to happen NOW. Hubby is the same. If something is broken, we fix it. If we make a decision, we like to move on …
Farming can be hard some days. Things happen when you have flocks and herds of creatures in your care, and sometimes there is nothing you can do to fix it. Mink happen. And racoons sometimes. Or eagles, …
They say that when you buy a home a purchaser spends only about 30 minutes total in the house. We can't take it for a test drive and seem to purchase on instinct more that …
It has been an amazing 18 months. We moved here to Salt Spring Island on September 1st, 2012, with our mind full of possibilities, eager to see what the future had in store. We had no idea …
Sometimes for necessary reasons, bloggers need to lie. We need to hold back on truths, to protect ourselves, or our family. I mean, you can't really expect us to divulge everything can you? Except, as a blogger …
My husband and I learned with our first, that when a baby is taking a nap and sleeping extra well, you should never, ever, ever mention that outloud. As soon as one of us would comment …
I'm not exactly sure when it happened, but this morning when I woke up, I was suddenly aware that it had. Things were different in our life, very different. For 10 years I have been tired. I …
As I continue to explore the concept of "raising interesting kids", I started to wonder, what is "IT" that makes a person interesting in the first place? People we classify as interesting tend to have a …
We all meet and interact with people every day. Some are better than others, many are complete bores and every now and then you come across someone really interesting. I sat down to lunch with my …
It was a day of messages yesterday I had applied to be a speaker at a big blogger conference and yesterday found out I was denied. Actually, they said my session "would not be included", …
It was a day just like any other. Dragging my feet this morning until that first cup of coffee and hustling kids out the door to the bus. Lunches, lists and routine. Except it was anything but …
