by Marissa | Mar 13, 2014 | GrowingFamily, Home, Image-Update, Uncategorised
Like most people, we’ve got a lot on our plates, a lot happening in our day. And like many families, it can become so easy to get caught up in “busy” that we don’t take time to connect with each other and to simply enjoy being a family....
by Marissa | Feb 17, 2014 | Farm, GrowingFamily, Home, Image-Update, Life, Uncategorised
It’s been a rough couple of days on “the farm”. I blame it on the wind. The recordings in the farm journal haven’t been fun. February 14: Wind blew part of the shelter over. February 14: Wind blew grain storage door open. Cows got into the...
by Marissa | Dec 27, 2013 | GrowingFamily, Home, Image-Update, LivingNaturally, MakingHome, PursuingBeauty, Uncategorised
It’s been a beautiful, crazy, unusual, and perfect-for-us Christmas. Full of fun, quiet, noise, food, friends, just us, and family via facetime. The girls have been soaking up every minute of it, especially the fact that their beloved daddy is taking the week of...
by Marissa | Dec 15, 2013 | Home, Image-Update, LivingNaturally, MakingHome, Uncategorised
Have I told you about the island in my kitchen before? Well, its huge and beautiful; we found and bought an section of an old bowling ally for a fraction of the cost that a hardwood counter top would have been. Solid maple and six feet long, I dreamed it up and Dan...
by Marissa | Jul 15, 2013 | Guest Post, Home, Image-Update, JoiningCommunity, MakingHome, Uncategorised
In the wee quiet hours of morning, I’m sitting sipping my morning coffee. I, who never really drank coffee, now sip a morning coffee. I attribute it to being able to pour thick, lovely cream from Sugar the cow in it. Anyways, I digress. With the arrival of my parents...
by Marissa | Apr 12, 2013 | Farm, Home, Image-Update, LivingNaturally, Uncategorised
My, how these days have been flying by. All of our animals came this past weekend and we have been a little chaotic while getting settled. We have some kinks to work out in our pens and pasturing situation but mostly we are loving it. We’ve been milking Sugar...
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