Simply ten good things!

Inspired by Amanda Soule, this is my list of simply ten good things!

Window sills full of riping tomatoes from the garden.

An unexpected kiss.

A wonderful magical creation out of salt dough.

The warmth of a hug.

Laying on bed with your daughters, just giggling about nothing.

The sound of rain, when you have nowhere to go.

Fresh eggs.

Fresh raw milk.

The smell of clean laundry, off the line.

The woodsy smell of my daughter.

Now it is your turn!

Glob...

Glob, a word that you do not see everyday, but which is something that you must look into. Recently ecomom.com has a special, you buy a 20 in gift cards you get 40 to spend. So I did this, one thing I got was glob, it is a dry pigment paint set. It comes with the dry pigments, brushes(bamboo) mxing cups with lids and instructions. The colors are all made out of fruits, veggies, and herbs. Blueberry, plums, basil, to name just a few. The colors are wonderful, and are amazing. You control how to mix itm so if you want thicker you would simple use less water, if you want it more like water colors you use more water.
Glob is a wonderful product! We truely love it!

Our family poem: Closing the Circle

Our family poem
Closing The Circle
by Wendell Berry

Within the circle of our lives
we dance the circle of the years,
the circles of the seasons
within the circles of the years,
the cycles of the moon
within the circles of the season,
the circles of our reasons
within the cycles of the moon.

Again, again we come and go,
changed, changing. Hands
join, unjoin in love and fear,
grief and joy. The circles turn,
each giving into each, into all.
Only music keeps us here,

each by all the others held.
In the hold of hands and eyes
we turn in pairs, that joining
joining each to all again.

And then we turn aside, alone,
out of the sunlight gone

into the darker circles of return.

 

Gardening, hens, and sick children!

The garden is going leaps and bounds! I am hoping to be able to harvest many wonderful things soon!
The hens are also growing in leaps and bounds....hopfully eggs will start coming soon! Excited by having our own eggs again!
Chloe is sick, we are now in limbo, waiting to see who else will fall to this sickness that is taking over!

Coming to the end of summer

Summer will be over soon, even when we did not have much on one here in the PNW, but still I love it here.
One of my many reasons for moving back here is because the weather is much nicer, no extreme heat.
Our garden is growing rapidly...still not a lot to harvest yet. The chickens are in their coop, we have painted the kitchen and the bathroom. Next is to get the girls room decorated how they would like them.
We will be starting our official year of homeschool...yes another year of this! It will be out 9th year! WOW! I still worry that they are learning what they need, but then I watch them, and see what they do everyday on their own, and I know that they are exactly were they need to be at this moment.
I still worry about the reading issue for the girls, but I also know that it will come.
I watch them, my three beautiful, sweet children, and I just know that we are doing everything right. Each are bright, beautiful, happy, and are complete human beings.
Everyday I look at my children, and I know that we are also exactly where we need to be.

Life on my little urban farm is never really boring.
Thw chickens are now over a month old, and will soon be moved to the outside coop...they will happy!
All 16 chicks have survived, which surprised me, since they were mailed from Texas, Ideal poultry is amazing, I highly recommend them.
The lasagna garden is growing amazingly well. The creole tomatoes are doing so well, which I was really worried about this since the soil here is so different here.
The kids are still doing school type work, but right now they are more 'free ranging' it all right now. Which is good for them since they are being very creative this way.