Just Posting…
It has been awhile since we put out a video. We really would like to make more of them to document the types of things we are working on but usually we are too tired. 🙂 Anyway, enjoy!
It has been awhile since we put out a video. We really would like to make more of them to document the types of things we are working on but usually we are too tired. 🙂 Anyway, enjoy!
Early in the morning I often hear the [thump] [thump] [thump] of Joshua’s (three-year old) feet across our plywood floors. The thumps grow louder as he gets closer and I try to wake up enough to grab a flashlight and hand it to him. We have a daily routine going where he needs to go…
I have taken more naps in the last two weeks than I probably have in the past year. I am just coming back to cooking full meals after four weeks of throwing random things together that don’t look totally disgusting. I have been much more absent in this space than I normally would as…
This post was originally published in January, 2010. It is not lost on me that the majority of my acquaintances – family & friends included – do not approve of my chosen ‘vocation’. We live in a world where getting paid to nourish or care for other people’s families is a respectable position. But if…
Despite the relative ease in which I spent my earliest days of motherhood, I was never the kind of Mama who gave her little boys baths every night. This was partly because, in our fairly suburban existence, they just never got dirty. I had grown up with farmers as friends and farmers as family and…
It might just be me, but I find the end of pregnancy so much more exhausting than those early days of new, sweet smelling, always-feeding baby. Perhaps it is because we’ve always had people waiting, and waiting, and waiting for our wee ones to come into the world and, personally, I prefer to not put…
Fall is doing what it has often done in the nearly six years since we have inhabited this land – coming and going. While the last two years have seen that subtle day-to-day change in seasons, this year seems a bit like earlier years. It has been a little drier, a little warmer, and the…
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Aw, what a wonderful surprise……….I Love It…………Miss you
Thanks for sharing with us. You have a beautiful family. I can hardly keep up with the changes.
It is truly amazing to see the maturity of young people who grow up in an agrarian home. The responsibility, and the satisfaction of hard work… a job well done. Beautiful! Thank you for sharing.
Wonderful!..
Simply…… beautiful!!
Simply beautiful.
This is so beautiful! <3
Thoroughly enjoyed. Thanks for sharing.
Hi, Shannon; this was a great gift today as it is chilly, windy and cloudy here. It is always fun to see what you all are doing. Love watching these young ‘ens doing their share. What great fun and what they are learning now is priceless. Thanks so much for sharing your life.
Beautifully done! God Bless!
What a precious little family! And such hard workers … thanks for sharing!
How sweet! What a wonderful snapshot of your family and life. thank you for sharing.
p.s. I’m still smiling–just cannot stop. 🙂
I really enjoyed this video. I smiled the whole time that I was watching it.
Oh my! What a blessing your family is to me! Love to you all!
Love it!
What a precious family! May God continue to richly bless you!
I’ve just discovered your blog and it’s wonderful! You have the most wonderful healthy wholesome family. May you always be blessed in all you guys do!
I love this video, thanks for sharing it with us ((hugs)).
Love it!! Truly beautiful and inspiring. Love ready your blog. Hugs
That was beautiful. Your children are so into living on the land, its wonderful to see the boys building, measuring and working so hard and the little ladies are just too cute. Bless your gorgeous family. xxx
So beautiful!! Amazing that your young sons already know how to mix cement and “plant” fence posts! So much more useful than knowing how to play video games as most kids do. Bless you guys!!
Love the video! Thank you for sharing.
It may or may not be helpful, but every wooden fence post installed on our four acres was done a bit differently… The holes were dug then the post placed exactly as it was to stand. I held the post as my husband poured dry cement mix into the hole and tamped it down to pack it around the post. Moisture from the surrounding ground usually set the cement overnight. They are still tight and standing strong after 22 years.