It’s no question. We are living in unprecedented times. (How many times have I heard that in the last couple weeks?) Like seriously… Un. Heard. Of. My big girls asked me when the last time something like this has ever happened. Never. There are so many questions. What do we do now? What about school? […]
There was Christmas. (Magical.) Then New Year’s Eve. (More magic.) There was the snow. (Yes!) There was the extreme cold. (You know the days that were colder than Antarctica. Literally.) There was the casting of lots to see who would make the long trek to the mailbox in the Iowa tundra. (Not. Me. Because I […]
The early chill cut to my core and I had yet to lay hold of my morning sustenance. The wee hours were just waning and I suspected that the morning was eager to burst forth within the hour. I gingerly stepped onto the cold wooden floor, thankful for my fair-isle slippers with the leather sole. […]
I am not certain that it ever fully does, but in a sense, it feels like it’s all coming together. I cannot even say exactly what. It is that moment when you turn around and look behind you and it takes your breath away. That moment when you recount all the mistakes and regrets you […]
OH, how I have missed writing things. For eighteen long months, this sweet, wistful life on the homestead became bombarded by circumstances and ambitions that mostly seemed contrary to my entire life philosophy. As I plowed deeper into the rigor of further education, my sweet girls went to public school for a year, The Man […]
Coffee in Eden 