We have been so blessed! We want to say thank you to our family members and friends that worked together to make our wedding celebration so beautiful. With God at the center of our union I think everything looks brighter and more joyful! Our decorations were truly a collaborative effort and I wanted to share…
Family Fun
What Happens On Sunday
I teach children’s church one Sunday each month. All summer long we’re talking about praying and giving each kid a set of hands on which to write prayer requests for the week. The hands are a physical reminder to pray. I didn’t teach last week, but the Little Farmer came back from his lesson with…
No Fail Cure For Hiccups – Denver Style
I had to travel to Denver last week for a work meeting. We’ve all heard that life is really lived in the margins (the unplanned stuff that just happens). Well this was in the margin of meeting. I had the hiccups. This really did cure them. Once in Denver and once in Ohio.
What’s A Farmer with the Flu to Do?
The Little Farmer laid in the hallway and asked me to hand him his sippy cup which was two feet away because he was too “stiff” to reach it. I wondered if this was a new effort to get attention. I brushed it off and tried to do what I could to help him feel…
New Year’s Resolution Success
I like setting goals, but most of all I value realistic, practical, applicable to real life goals. I accomplished one of those goals recently. For the first time in my life I read through the Bible in a year. I wanted to set myself up for success so I read ahead in the early months…
Evening Activities
After an intense day of promoting pork for me and playing and/or harassing the child care providers for my Little Farmer we like to go outside. A couple weeks ago we found this, and he got reintroduced with naturally made mud. Don’t worry, he’s been carrying water from the house outside to make his own…
Santa, Straw & Storms
A couple months ago the Little Farmer and I helped bale a few loads of straw. That evening he started saying some really funny stuff and I wrote it down. Like word for word: Is Santa really good at remembering stuff? Are you really good at remembering stuff? Why didn’t you remember to park that…
Fair Season
I spent a few days at the state fair for my job (alone). The first Saturday of the Ohio State Fair I took the Little Farmer along to help with the pork “Ag is Cool” exhibit for a couple hours. That kid knows his stuff! It’s almost like he was born to promote pork and…
Kid in charge – How did this happen?
Has your house ever been (is) so messy that you don’t know where to start because you know a solid two to four hours of work will make no difference? Yeah, me too. The most recent time I’ve been affected by this incident is well, right now. I’m washing dishes, the Little Farmer came out…
Life After T-Ball
I made it through the Little Farmer’s first season of an organized sport. Now we’re back to life as normal. The kid is less rested than he was before as he has to sit or stand for most of our normal activities. Immediately after the t-ball season he still had an unfathomable amount of energy,…