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!