Its officially one week until the night when the stockings must be hung by the chimney with care. I’d better get cracking and finish these up! There’s nothing like a good deadline to bring a project to completion. Or at least that’s my hope. :)
We got back from a wonderful whirlwind four day Thanksgiving holiday and the kids were understandably a little wound-up and crazy. Amazing food, lots of family, lots of riding in the car and lost routine all add up. And did I mention they were wound up? Anyway, after 4 time-outs before 9am on Monday, we [...]
When David’s parents first got married, they worked and lived on a dairy farm in eastern Washington. They were pretty much swimming in cream so they got a Dazey Churn to turn their share of cream into butter. They haven’t had use for it for awhile, so they gave it to us! Here’s what it [...]
I recently left my job and I was really wondering what it would mean on a day to day basis to not go into the office every day. Thursday was the first time that I really realized that THIS (babies, farm, etc) is now my job and that THIS is what I do now. And [...]
Dumplings! I had leftover apples from a pie I made last week and wanted to bake more so here’s the result. Usually, I leave the yummy recipes to my talented cousin, but couldn’t resist this today (especially because I’m eating one of them for breakfast as I write – decadent!) It’s just pie dough (I [...]