To my dear sweet hubby, Mike.

Today is the first day of a new life for us, we hope. He left on a bus to Dallas at 5am this morning to attend school for CR England. He said the bus ride wasn’t great, could have been worse, but 8 hours on a bus kind of stinks.  Then the hotel they stay in is terrible, he says.  They have to turn off every light and the A/C when they leave each day or the hotel fines each of the students in the room $10 a day for extra electricity. Can you believe that?  Gotta love those small hotel owners….especially in 100* plus heat in the DFW area in the summer.

So, to my dear husband and wonderful father to my children, Happy Fathers’ Day! This also goes out to all the brothers, sons, fathers, grandfathers, uncles….of everyone!

This picture is of Mike, Felicity and Gregory in July 2004. Felicity was 3 years old and Gregory was 3 months old.

We love you Daddy!

It’s been so long since I have posted regularly on this blog. I miss posting and I miss all of my visitors and friends that post such wonderful comments here.

Here’s things in a nutshell:

• All my chickens are all being sold/re-homed for now. Two of our rabbits have been re-homed, and one to go.
• We’ve had a house full for the past month. Matt & Katie and Katie’s friend, Jane, will all have places of their own within 2 weeks and be out of our house. Matt & Katie’s 5 dogs will be leaving with them, as well
• We sold our land to Matt & Katie, and plan to purchase more at a later time, once we decide where we definitely want to permanently call “home”.
• Mike’s last day at Tractor Supply Company is today.  He leaves tomorrow night for CDL school and will then be an OTR (over the road) truck driver. This is something we have considered for over a year in order to get us out of debt, pay for our dream farm and build a nice retirement for us. He will be gone several weeks at a time then home for a couple of days at a time, but we will be fine. Our future is worth it in the long run.
• Felicity, Gregory and I will remain where we are in Amarillo, at least for now. Our lease isn’t up on the house where we are living until November, so we have time to decide where to go from here.
• Gregory is finally interested in potty learning!!! WOOT  He also is vigilantly working on new words and sounds every week!
• Felicity is doing fabulous, as always.
• My mental health is mending, with the assistance of a new doctor. She told me it will take a while, but she will get me back to “myself”. I’m ready to get out of this yucky funk I’ve been in for three years.

Ok. I think that covers every base. Get ready for next week.  The theme of our family blog will change just a bit.  See you then!  Have a great weekend!

Farmwoman over at Life on a Southern Farm is giving away on of the wonderful nest box sets that her dh, FarmMan builds.

Here’s the link to register for the giveaway…just leave a comment on her post
Register to win —-> HERE

Enjoy!

It’s been so long since I posted, that I forgot my login password.  Now that’s just B A D.

Things have been busy around here.  I’m working on new internet businesses getting started, Mike’s working and we’re wrapping up the school year (thank goodness).

I am trying very hard to get a schedule set up where I have time a couple of days each week to post on my blogs, so hopefully I’ll be around here more. No promises when, though.

Katie and Matt got married last Thursday.  I plan to post about it tomorrow with photos. So be sure to come back then.

Have a great evening.

No, I haven’t fallen off the face of the earth, though some may think so.

There’s not been much exciting going on around our house right now, plus “writer’s block” equals no posts.

Anyhow, here’s what I’ve been up to.  I’m going back to work.

Conception and Beyond is a turnkey store for Momma, Baby and Young Children. The business/site is for sale. You can see it live at www.conceptionandbeyond.com. This business is being sold through my new web design business, www.workathomedesignworks.com

Most of my readers aren’t aware that I designed and manufactured a line of cloth diapering accessories a few years ago.  In 2006, I sold the business, thinking I really just wanted to be a Stay at Home Mom.  I’m coming out of retirement with a fabulous line of products very soon. I’m ready to “rock-n-roll”! I’m so jazzed about my new businesses!

Other than that, not much is going on around our house.  Too many chickens equals we re-homed 9 last week.  We have about a dozen more to re-home, but we’re waiting to find out if they are roosters or pullets first.

I’ll be back soon!

…when they scratch at the back door wanting to come in the house. ROFLOL

Seriously, we had the chickens out in the backyard for a couple of hours this morning.  I kept hearing a scratch at the back door and continually told the dogs to get away from the door that they couldn’t go out with the chickens.

THEN I realized the dogs were all laying at my feet while I was working on the computer.  I heard the scratching again and realized it was the darn chickens!!!! Gabe, Tuff, Charlie and Pierre.  CITY CHICKENS I TELL YA!!!!!

Click the arrow to work this puzzle for yourself!

I have started another new blog, an autism blog.

Hugs by the Pound   Link is also in the far right column ——> over there

I will do a lot of updating on Gregorys successes over there and keep our daily life adventures here.

Please be sure to add it to your favorite blogs and visit often.

During the kids spring break, we went to visit with Curt (works with Mike) at his farm. Curt is helping mentor us with information and advise for our new farm. Here’s lots of photos…enjoy!

We were there for hours…we had so much fun!

That lamp oil would be so hard to find.

We have started a new tradition at our house. Each night, we eat dinner over oil lamp light. We turn off the lights and fire up the oil lamps. It’s really quite a nice thing we have started.

Now that daylight savings time has changed, we don’t do this much at dinner time since it’s still daylight outside. Instead we light the oil lamps after dark while we watch tv, play games, etc. Not only is it saving electricity, it’s quaint and cozy. We like that.

For the past three days, I’ve been on a scavenger hunt for lamp oil. I can’t beleive there is not any to be found in Amarillo (well at least on the west side, that is). I have gone to 4 different places and nada…no lamp oil to be found. UGH.

Thank heavens for the absolute neatest store I found online several months ago, Lehmans. They carry lamp oil year round, along with TONS of other self-sufficient and homesteading products. By the way, if you’d like to see a very unique “Amish” site with thousands of products, click here!

As well as oil for my lamps, I found the “granny” fork that I have been wanting for years. My mother had one she used constantly when cooking and I’ve never been able to find one.  Now I have.

Have a great day and a fun time parusing Lehmans site!