In an untidy house, filled with piles of laundry (clean and unclean), boxes of crackers (unseen in our house for years, and suddenly they’re everywhere), in the squeals of delight and terror when Ella sees the kitten. In Ella’s announcement this morning, “Mama, when I’m a teenager, can you, like, move to another land far ...
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First, I hope everyone had a wonderful, peaceful Mother’s Day.  I enjoyed a freshly scrubbed kitchen (thank you Ben!) and spent most of the day listening to Ella giggle hysterically while we played with our new kitten and some ribbon (sorry, no photos yet!). Emmalina asked for advice about finding a draft horse, and as ...
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Mama, she said, can I mop? Not a question anyone would ever say no to.  She thought she’d mop the fridge, too, just in case.  (The mop, btw, was made by Tonya and her lovely family.) Also, a few weeks ago I made this handtowel (on the right) for the kitchen.  We needed a new ...
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I have been feeling, these days, incredibly be blessed to be here, in our beloved Valley, enjoying the tender new spring.  This time of year, driving past other greening farms, I wonder how anyone could choose to live anywhere else, or live any other kind of life. In June, sometimes, in the crazy scramble to ...
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