Gift Guide for the Gardener on your List Winter is a great time to plan out your garden. Think about what you want to grow, learn a few new techniques, and dream about Spring. Which makes Christmas the perfect time to spoil the gardener in your life or treat yourself! This Gift Guide for…
Gift Guide for Chicken Lovers There is a reason why backyard chicken keeping has exploded the last few years; these birds are amazing! Chickens have personality, eat nasty bugs, give you wonderful compost, greet you with love, and give you precious butt nuggets daily. Raising chickens is very rewarding and worth celebrating. If you…
Are you on the hunt for the perfect gift for the country women in your life? Here are some practical gifts that she will actually use and love! Or maybe you need some ideas for yourself. Here are a few gifts that I absolutely love or that I am asking for this year!…
We are thrilled to share our big announcement. We are expecting Baby #5 in April! What a blessing. You can read about how we spilled the beans to our kids, our announcement pictures, and why baby #5 is extra exciting.
Fall is such a beautiful season! The weather is cooling down, the birds are flying south, and the horizon is bursting with colors of burnt orange, golden yellow, bright green, rust-brown, and crimson. In no time at all, the array of colors will be gone, the trees will be bare, and frost will cover…
Fall… pumpkin spice, apple picking, warm drinks, sitting by a fire, hayrides, and BEAUTIFUL FALL LEAVES. That is what comes to mind when I think of fall. It is one of my favorite seasons! I wish fall would stay around a little longer, but the leaves change colors quickly, and before you know it,…
The weather is cooling down and I am out picking the last fruits of our labor in the garden. I can’t help but look around and take note of the mistakes we made and the successes we had this year. The failures can really drag you down, but truthfully they are not failures. They…
Fresh pesto is one of our most celebrated summer meals! Especially, homemade pesto! We grow rows of basil, so that we can store pesto for the entire year. If that doesn’t speak volumes for how much we love our pesto, I don’t know what does. The first year we moved to our farmhouse, the…
This last homeschool year, we traveled the World with My Father’s World Exploring Countries & Cultures. Here is my honest review of the curriculum and our experience with it. Pin Me! If you are unfamiliar with My Father’s World, it is a Christian homeschool curriculum that is a mix of Charlotte Mason, classical education,…
“You’ll Never Know if you Don’t Try.” “You’ll never know if you don’t try.” This saying has been circling my head as we work tirelessly breaking new land for our pumpkin patch. It’s hot and sweaty, mosquito’s are eating us alive, and we do not have the right equipment to do the job properly….