Posted on May 6th, 2013 by mountain girl | 8 Comments »
We went looking at houses again this weekend. No promises, but we might have just maybe found our house. It’s a couple of hours from us, on seven acres on the south side of a mountain. It’s a nice, basic house–and it seems like just what we need. Although it was an overcast day yesterday, the […]
Posted on April 17th, 2013 by mountain girl | 3 Comments »
We’re SO glad to have this guy home! We thought he was leaving for 6 days, and it ended up being 16, due to technical problems on the job. It was a rough trip for him, all the way to making it home in the snowstorm. Bit of a change coming home from sunny Georgia! […]
Posted on April 15th, 2013 by mountain girl | 6 Comments »
We’ve been waiting–and keeping busy these last days before he finally comes home. Zia wanted so much to plant a garden, but after last year’s short growing season and failed plants, I wasn’t so sure. We’ll start a tiny garden, at least. This boy has grown more hair, learned to eat more foods (turkey and salmon!) […]
Posted on April 9th, 2013 by mountain girl | 6 Comments »
Well, the snow is here–but so are the doughnuts. We found this cute little donut maker half-price at Target this weekend. It was just in time to warm up the kitchen…and procure some very big smiles. Cash had his own plans for those doughnuts, but he ended up with a spoonful of mashed banana instead, poor […]
Posted on March 9th, 2013 by mountain girl | 9 Comments »
There’s a rhythm to our days here–simple but full. Having kids has slowed me way down. Before my babies came, I rarely sat down during the day, ever, except for meals. There was very little rhythm to my life; it was lived on the fly. If I felt like jumping in the car and going […]