• Family - Homesteading

    The Autumn Slide

    What a summer it’s been! I swear to you that I’ve written this post at least 15 times in my head over the past few weeks, updating it as new things have happened and trying to pull seconds out of free minutes to put pen to paper (or cursor to screen,…

  • Family - Goats - Grow - Poultry

    Shown, Unshown – July into August

    Oh, how I’ve missed you all! And so here I am again, trying to document and share after being absent from this space for much longer than I’d hoped, planned, or anticipated! Realizing it is mid-August (how the heck did that happen), we’re way past due for a catch-up and…

  • Ducks - Family - Grow

    In the Garden – Mid July

    I’ve found myself wondering (once again) where the time has gone. It was said when I was a kid that the older I’d get, the faster time would pass… The busier I’d get, the more responsibilities I’d have, the faster moments would slip through my fingers. I didn’t believe it,…

  • Family

    Ten years gone…

    Today felt as though it should have been a big day… The weeks and days leading up to it surely did. And yet, how does one go about marking a decade of missing one’s mother? I thought there would be streams of tears and a deep, raw sadness. I thought…