approaching summer

 Seems were always busy around here lately. Haven't had much time to write and I don't have the patience to wait an hour while my photos upload. I need to fix my uploading issues soon. Summer weather has come our way rather suddenly and we've been dividing our time between running errands and dilly-dallying outside. […]

house four

So some of you remember last summer when we were questing for our future farm house in need of renovation (see the sidebar category "house hunting")? Well, we decided this weekend we'd go look at a fourth farmhouse. Actually, we already knew this house was in really rough shape, but we wanted to scout out […]

A patch and growth

Keely decides to dress-up as someone several times a day. There are outfits, routines, and songs that go with most of the personas. Sometimes she acts out stories. Lately she's been a postal carrier. Oh fine. A mailMAN, but whatever. She told me the other day she needed to be a pirate, but she didn't […]

the cookie conversation

So Keely and I were making chocolate chip cookies the other day and she sat down to devour a little dish of chips with her first cookie and she says, "Mommy, I'm going to have a sister one day." (how Keely softens the butter)  This raised my eyebrow because we haven't told her that I'm […]

Kicking it Old School

  Such blucky weather we've been having around here. Where is the sun? We've gone a bit stir crazy so I tried rearranging the living room with Keely's "help". It looks awful now and is a giant mess. While scooting the couch around the room, I found our beloved piece of stained glass. See, I […]

belly shrimp and other oddities

The poor neglected camera.  The poor neglected blog.  My poor neglected blog mates. I am so sorry y'all. I just can't keep up right now.  I have nothing creative or cheery to write about. My brain is mushy and so sleepy and the rest of me is nauseous quite often. Working on getting food and […]

Around here

This weekend the weather was good. We found a cheap (thrift store) outdoor couch-like thing for our almost complete screened-in porch. It needs a paint job and I get to make some cushions for it, but like I said…it was really cheap. We went to all the stores we could think of trying to find […]