2021 january

Well here's to a new year. 

  It started with continuing uncertainty from the fall election. I still feel  it was all unfair and trump won but nothing we can do about. There was some unrest at the capitol over it all but Mr. Biden is now in office and well just hang on to our pants n keep chugging

through no matter what America will become in the next 4 years.

   We had a nice little break from school over Christmas n new years, Derek was home so loved having some great family time. I am so blessed with a great hubby n dad to our children. He def helps keep things in line when I just get overrun by everything. God I put us together for a reason.

  He was gone on a 2 week work trip to Ohio over the inauguration time but I wasn't really worried about stuff. 

  We met halfway  last wknd so that was fun to get out for a short 3hr trip. Kids loved the hotel stay. 

   We finally got a good amount of snow so kids n I sure enjoyed that for a few days. Did not have any sledding last winter. 

   It rained the last 2 days , now its all gone . Indiana weather. 

2020

Well 2020 was quite the year. Started off with me trying to get a passport so Greyson so I could fly to Alberta to spend our 49th birthday with my twin brother there. 

   That was a total fail and I did not get tickets bought for March, disappointment was how my year started.

     Then cover showed up in March so my trip would probably not have worked anyway.

    Had hopes of going to Canada so i could see my family n friends again. I was pregnant with Greyson last time we were up. Borders never fully opened and with quarantine in place it was just not feasible.

   We did have a good but busy summer at home .  Got laying hens, had a vegetable garden, raised meat birds and raised 2 sheep for meat. So a self sustaining summer. 

     In the fall we joined a local homeschooling coop we have every Wed from 8 to 12 so that has been fun but busy. Getting out and making new friends. 

  Greyson is a busy go-getter that gets into everything and keeps me on my toes. He got hung up in our garden fence numerous times  , runs outside with no jacket when its freezing outside and messes w the chickens. See if I can add pics to this later but thats a tiny peek in our 2020 year. 

    

Christmas 2019. We had a quiet Christmas day. greyson had a rough night so Derek n I slept in till 10 while the others were patiently playing quietly in the living room. they are growing up . Austin had read them the last story in Donkey in the Living room. I made pancakes n bacon ( never mind my intentions of getting up early to make cinnamon rolls or doughnuts) .life w a baby who gets up multiple X's a night. Derek wrapped the gifts while I cleaned up and then at noon they finally got to open up there presents. it was w beautiful day outside ,we went looking at deer tracks down by the edge of our woods and then went to Don's for the rest of the afternoon.

Jacksonville FL 2016

We are in Jacksonville florida. Been here going on 3 weeks. Feels so good to settle in somewhere this long.
It has been nice, a little cool some days in the 60s but this week we are seeing 70s.
We are at a lovely state park. We have a 5 minute drive to the ocean and a lake 2 minute walk from our site. We are nestled in palm trees.
They have 3 playgrounds here so its a race to finish school work so we can go play.

Love my kiddos.

Home,visitors and canning

Another week has come and gone .
Tyson had a few better nights where he was up 2 to 3 times but last night was pretty bad again. I tried putting him in a diff room on a bigger bed than his crib mattress, hopefully when he gets used to it it will help. I wasn't quite so tired or just dealt with it better this week. Am still doing green beans tomatoes and peaches.
Weather has been nice hot some days and rain every few days.
Kids conversations
They have been playing ( going to school a) a lot. Austin "you've been late for school so your punishment is you have to eat this hot pepper at lunch" Arianna plays right along till he really does stick a play pepper in her mouth. Then she cries.
We had made icecream.
They had a few bites while I was cooking supper. Austin had put it away as I had told him. She says.
"My belly wants more icecream"
He says your belly caint talk"
She pipes right back with hands on her hips
"My mouth wants some and my mouth can talk!!!"
The teasing has begun .
My sister Susie and abe came Thurs to sat. Was so good to have them here. Took the boat out Friday and grilled on the lake. Was fun to just take the day off and have some r+r.
Tyson plays better now that he can get around but he can also come crawling to mom when he gets fussy. He has hardly been eating any food this week. Spits everything out. Fruit and meat and yogurt is all he ate this week. No bread ,crackers, potatoes or anything like that. Maybe he's teething I don't know what's up.
Derek worked local this week. We brought him lunch 1 day and I took the kids to the playground after. This is becoming a weekly ritual.
Today we had homemade pizza, fresh corn from our garden, fresh tomato soup and to top it all off homemade icecream. Tyson ate like a champ today. Yay for homemade from scratch real food. We are all about no processed or ready made foods here.

Children

This is a week of new things for the children. Tyson started crawling ,day 2 and he has already gotten into my laundry basket,chucked it all over. Tried to get into the kids paint,Arianna was finger painting. Pulled down my broom. Oh the oldest 2 will have to get used to this. Little brother getting into their stuff.
Arianna is really getting into her colours ,know them if I ask which is red etc but caint quite remember them all to say herself. Also knows counting items up to 3 and just guesses randomly from there.
Working on Austin this week with telling the truth. Never had any issues with it before but trying nip it before it gets too bad.
I canned peaches and picked and canned tomatoes today.