Sundays are fun days

What a great day...woke up to crock pot oatmeal...have breakfast ready for half the week....ate reasonably healthy all day...took some banana bread to a wonderful neighbor who brought over pie on Christmas eve...had some great conversation......love our new community more and more everyday....made stock or bone broth...used the pickings from said stock to make dog food...had to mark the dog food jar as Reid ate the dog food once(he said it was one of my better meals)

Just the second beginning of a good year.....

this year has started off right...I wish work went a little better today but hopefully it will work out by Monday....today we hired a great contractor to fix our barn roof, the summer kitchen roof and threshold and he did a lot of extra work which will protect the house and barns this winter....so excited to get all of these projects out of the way....a better 2nd day of the year....feeling so accomplished although I did nothing but hire someone...

good quote

"Oh my God, what if you wake up some day, and you’re 65, or 75, and you never got your memoir or novel written; or you didn’t go swimming in warm pools and oceans all those years because your thighs were jiggly and you had a nice big comfortable tummy; or you were just so strung out on perfectionism and people-pleasing that you forgot to have a big juicy creative life, of imagination and radical silliness and staring off into space like when you were a kid? It’s going to break your heart. Don’t let this happen."

This quote comes from Ann Lamott's book, "Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life"

Although I do have a goal to be less jiggly and more gigglely....I won't let my big tummy prevent me from enjoying the bahamas in a couple weeks.

New year......starting

It has been a lazy start....as usual I had plans to be active and outside but they fell through....this is typical and I was angry at myself already for not just going out.   oh well here is to a new day tomorrow......this was just a reset day I guess............

start something.....

Imperfect in every way…..momma, wife, housewife…just trying a little bit of everything….trying to be a better person, momma, housewife, wife…please feel free to follow my musings and screw-ups together….maybe we will learn about this thing called life and maybe we can learn that nothing is perfect and that’s what make life wonderfully screwy.

Oh and you can see my successes and failures at farm life along the way.

This blog will be brutally honest and funny too I hope….I love reading blogs which make me want to be a better person…..but I think I look at that and think that is great but that is something I do not want….I do not want a white tile kitchen with no dirt…because that is no fun…..

this first start dedicated to aunt marie and sheryl murtha...for pushing and encouraging....