This week is Book Fair at the kids’ school and I co-chair the event with another mom. Spending all day every day at school is not a valid reason to excuse myself from field meal prep. So, in the wee hours this morning, I stumbled to the kitchen to put together calzones, brunch fruit and caramel-chocolate squares. My fairy farm princess crept into the kitchen shortly thereafter. Rubbing the ...
“Fall”ing in Love
When did he grow up? When did he become responsible and knowledgeable and reliable? When did he start raking the leaves? My Farm Boy . . . always my baby; always my love. Read more 30 Days of Farm Girl Memories Kick-off Day 1: Surprise Kittens Day 2: The Men in My Life Day 3: Small Town Saturday Night And find other 30 Day bloggers starting with the one who got us into this - Holly ...
Small Town Saturday Night
With just a few weeks before graduation, Mr. Kleinmaier, the high school social studies teacher, started class with, “So when are you all leaving?” We closed our books knowing that this would be one of those classes when Mr. Kleinmaier wanted to talk about something other than history. We had many of these classes. In fact, we’d often plan who would ask the question to push him off topic for 40 ...
The Men in My Life
The first man I ever loved was my dad. Growing up all I wanted was to impress him enough to be accepted as an equal on the farm. So I worked . . . hard. Baling hay until my appendix almost burst. Insisting on caring for one farrowing house all on my own, often missing supper to feed the sows. Pretending to know the right way to accomplish a task, just so I didn’t have to ask. My passion for ...
Surprise Kittens
Everyone in my family has been on the receiving end of a surprise birthday party. My sister’s 5th birthday is the first of our endeavors that I remember. She had spent the day at Grandma June’s and my mom and I went to work. Now, granted I was six at the time, so I don’t remember the work as much as the surprise. ...
30 Days of Farm Girl Memories
Here we go again. Did we not just successfully complete a 30 Day Blog challenge? Didn’t this adventure just end? Life feels a bit like that, like we just boxed up Christmas in order to deck the halls again; careening through the weeks on a high speed chase to find that moment when all the things to do are all done. ...
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