We’re home. Where the greens in the cold frame (that I accidentally left open for the chickens to eat once) are making a comeback. Where even just a couple of eggs found in the nesting box still makes me smile. Where we are sinking into daily life after an emotional few weeks. And when everything…
Dearest Annabelle, When I was pregnant with your biggest brother I was terrified of one thing throughout the whole pregnancy. I was terrified that he would be a girl. I was not prepared then to have a daughter. Two years later I had a similar sense of dread when your second big brother was waiting…
It’s 6:30 in the morning and I’m woken up by a set of pigtails that wants to wrestle. I take her to the kitchen, open up a large refrigerator, dispense the milkies, and turn to the coffee pot. This is a machine that heats the water and makes a single cup from coffee grounds…
The door to our little cabin opens right into the kitchen. From that door you see the barbed wire that lines the front of our two acres. Beyond that barbed wire is our dirt road that blows dust into every crevice in our kitchen when it’s dry and is as slick as ice when it…
