All around the farm, the golden brown of autumn surrounds us. Summer plants have died and are in various states of decay, the leaves are well on their way, shouting out in bright yellow before falling quiety to the ground. Always on this farm, we live up close and personal with this cycle–the cycle of [...]
Posts Tagged ‘gratitude’
Golden, Brown, and Green
Posted in challenges, cycles, duality, gratitude, nature, thanksgiving, tagged autumn, gratitude, seasons on November 6, 2011 | 3 Comments »
Making Do
Posted in challenges, children, family, farming, home, summer, tagged family, farming, gratitude, home, rhythym, seasons, summer on September 25, 2011 | 2 Comments »
After waiting patiently through an entire summer, we finally made it to the beach as a family a few weekends ago. And much like the time until then was filled with many good intentions to get there that never worked out, the trip itself went nothing like we had planned. The camping the night before–scratched. Because really, we should have known better than [...]
Through the bee’s eyes
Posted in bees, children, community, family, farm, farming, gratitude, home, potluck, weeds, tagged bees, family, farming, gratitude, home, thistles, weeds on August 26, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
So much depnds on how you look at it; on whether the sweet and beautiful children we adore are bickering with one another or are creating the most breathtaking drawings, forts, and stories, on whether or not we have a few extra bucks to buy some yarn with or other such fun purchase or we are staring at [...]
Our escape
Posted in challenges, children, family, farming, gratitude, home, nature, summer, tagged family, gratitude, mother, summer on August 1, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Sometimes, the best way to turn it all around is this. I hate that the stress of a challenging farming year can spill over into our family lives, but it does,and that’s just the thing about stress…it doesn’t know when to close the door itself unless we manage to muster the strength and shut it ourselves. [...]
Moment of Bliss
Posted in children, family, farm, farming, gratitude, home, tagged family, farming, gratitude, home, mother on May 30, 2011 | 2 Comments »
Reconnecting in the wash station after a somewhat hectic week. Laughing together while getting important stuff done is so much better than rushing bedtimes in order to get projects wrapped up alone, before the sun sets (as was the scene the night before and decidedly did not work and left us all feeling frazzled). [...]
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