Recipes we’ve enjoyed lately, complete with commentary: Oatmeal Beer Bread 2 cups flour 1 1/4 cups oatmeal 1 T baking powder 1 tsp. salt 2 T brown sugar 2 T honey 12 oz. beer 1/4 cup melted butter Grease loaf pan. In a bowl, mix dry ingredients, pour honey over dry ingredients, then beer […]
Stepping back.
Yesterday, I posted an ad on Craigslist to sell our goats. After holding onto them long past needing them, it was time. I’m stretched thin with too many things to do and not enough time to get it all done, and milking goats was not real high on my list of things I wanted to […]
Dear Pierce,
They make these contraptions called binkies. They can be there when I’m not available. You know. Like All. Night. Long. You should try it sometime. One night soon, you’ll be on your own. That new habit of grunting at me to roll over every two hours so you can get a fresh supply? It’s not […]
Thought for today.
When your dear daughter, age eight, finds the recipe for the 9×13 pan of bars she’s been asked to make and she asks if she should make a double or triple batch and acts surprised when informed a single will be plenty… is that when you know your family is approaching the big side of […]
Potty tales.
Scene 1: Took Charlotte’s night diaper off of her this morning. Told her she had to go in the toilet today. Took her potty. Over. And over. And over. Nothing. No accidents, but no successes. Nap diaper: soaked. Over. And over. No successes. Find her in her bedroom piling every clothing article on her puddle. […]
Oh, Charlie.
Someone thinks it’s fun to pick price stickers off of the groceries and decorate herself with them.
Sure glad that’s over.
We’ve had quite the week around this little farm. One day last week, right after the raccoon incident, the goats got out. Since they are, umm, goats, that was no shocker. Upon chasing them back in and heading up to do chores, Blaine found a bloody mess. They’d ran through the barbed wire outside of […]
We borrowed some friends’ Bull Mastiff for a bit while they are away. Brady, meet the dog you think you are. While Brady thinks she’s big and tough, Belle has, in one glance, informed her that she’s not as big as she once thought. The kids love her. Except for Charlotte. At first I thought […]
Hello, Random.
Ruby put a blue Hi-Ho-Cherry-O up her nose and announced she had a nose plug. It was beautiful. Three of my daughters cooperated with my photo-shoot idea the other day. One didn’t. Betcha can guess which one! …and in case you thought this was random, you’d be scared to hear my thoughts these days. Attention […]
Mmmm…
Guess what we made yesterday? In an extraordinary and unusual display of self control*, the kids saved chocolate bars from last fall to make s’mores. Yesterday, we fired up the grill and indulged. Yum. *That may or may not have been encouraged along by having hid and forgotten it about until recently.
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