Bear with me

Long story short - I was a week late getting the email to remind me to pay the web hosting. Clearly, I don't check email very often. #oops #bloggerfail Which means I lost everything. I called everyone I could think of. Nobody could help with recovering any of it. I tried to re-up my .com…

New Beginings

After a long break, I am back to blogging. Boy does it feel good to be writing again! The last few years have been quite a whirlwind. A lot of personal growth has and continues to occur, and even more learning. When it all first started to explode (or implode depending on your perception), I…

What Parenting Books Don’t Tell You

Parenting books are stupid. Just going to put that out there. With all of their good advice on surviving their raising with the intent to (hopefully) not raise complete heathens scarred for life that turn around and raise more scarred heathens, they leave out the biggest part, the hardest part. Your job as a parent…

First Year Update

First Year Update The year has not quite gone as planned. Who am I kidding? Nothing has gone even remotely close to our general plan. I could go on and on – I’ll spare yall the details and just give highlights. By September, we had managed to get the house “live-ably dry”. Is that even…

Peek a Boo

I know, I know. It’s been a year since I’ve posted anything. Yes, we are alive and kickin still! Chuggin along slowly doing this homestead thing. Long story short, it was one hell of a year but by His Grace, we made it! Remember how things were beginning to spiral last year… well it all…