would you look at this pea?

is this not the biggest pea you have every seen?

i should win some kind of prize for this...biggest pea, longest pea, widest pea...something...

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i know that i have been a little absent lately, and truthfully the entire summer will probably be a little hit and miss at the domestic chick. oh i will be posting don't get me wrong but it might be 3 posts in one day and then 3 days may go by and nothing...i am sure that you all are just crushed at the thought :). obviously i do not think that you are on the other side of your computer waiting with bated breath for me to let you know what is going on over here. well this picture and this place should tell you alot. many an hour has been spent in the garden so far this spring and summer. alot of other fun things have gone on too...but this little space sure does take alot of time. the kids are really enjoying it though and it is so educational and we are amazed at God and His creation and what we can learn from the garden.

on a side note, don't you just love my color coordinated outfit of grey shorts and a brown and white striped t-shirt and the way my hair is making that nice little "X" on my forehead. i am shocked that organic gardening has not contacted me for the front cover, aren't you? it hasn't stopped mr. dc from wanting to squeeze here and there though. i know i should be thankful but i really do not understand how one could be attracted to another when the other looks like the above picture. seriously!

well this post has been all over the place. that is what you get when you start typing in the morning and end the post at 10 pm with all kinds of things that go on during the course of the day at the suburban farm.

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hopefully tomorrow. it is supposed to rain so maybe...

fashion forward or fashion flawed

little cheeks has the odds stacked against her in regard to fashion awareness. i have always been a little fashion challenged or maybe the better term is fashion careless. i like it if it's comfy, makes me look thinner than i really am, or has a lands end tag in the back. really those are the qualifications for fashion in my book. so when i saw this beauty today i asked myself...has she broken the trend of fashion-less-ista's of the family? OR is she blindly following in the footsteps of a domestically aware woman who needs a stylist? either way she is the cutest thing i have ever seen in a pink polka dot crinoline puffed skirt and snow boots.

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what's in a name

for me it is...a clearing or a meadow and my last name meaning is little rooster. boy, did i luck out or what.

go here to find the meaning of your name and comment. i think this will be fun.

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picture credit: crunchberry

the farm

today was a hard day for me. we visited the family farm for the last time as a family. my three little ones love the farm. their memories of the farm include fishing, skipping rocks in the pond or just throwing them in and watching them splash, lots of kittens, a sweet dog named sam, lots of barns, black ones, and time that is undivided.

my memories of the farm extend well beyond those of my children, this farm entered my life when i met the man that i am beyond blessed to call my husband. it is his great aunt and uncles farm. they are really more like grandparents as his grandparents went to be with the Lord at an early age. the first time i saw the farm i told my love that i wanted it someday. i wanted to run and roam these fields. i desired nothing more than to raise a family on this piece of land that is undoubtedly blessed by the maker of all things. b and i spent many a romantic evening on that pond fishing and planning our future.

so today was not as i planned, because the farm is not ours any longer. not that it was ever "ours", but it was my little place that i could go and see God's hand in so many things. the wind blowing the wheat, the laughter dancing through the eyes of children that ran and jumped and soared through acres of green goodness, the peace that my sweet love felt knowing that his family had lived on that piece of land and worked it hard for over 200 years.

it has always been my desire, even as a child and very much a city girl, to be a farm girl. so today something within me has died a little bit, because that is where i dreamed to be. i will hold and clutch onto the memories that were created there. they are some of my fondest memories with my young love and that farm created some of the most precious faces upon my children's faces at the wonder of discovery there in that place. i am trusting that this loss is part of God's perfect plan for our lives, because i know that He makes no mistakes. however, right here and now in this place i am sad and i want today back.

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petunia

it has always been a dream of mine to write a children's book revolving around the main character petunia the pot bellied pig. i met petunia yesterday. here she is. i will tell you that she is not very lady-like. and this is her partner in crime, mr. grumples...

what is a dream of yours?

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my lifeline

the past few weeks around here have been ridiculous. ridiculous in that i really do not know where they have gone. i can't tell you how many times my poor husband and friends have heard me say that "i am loosing my mind".

so yesterday i took the time to sit down and reorganize my thoughts a very little bit and i realized it had been weeks since i had done a quiet time with God. no wonder! what i thought may have been a day or two had turned into 2 weeks and 4 days. way to long. for me it has to be an everyday event of sitting down, reading my Bible, and trying to glean what the Lord is trying to put out there for me to wrap my head around.

for me time alone with God each day just really puts things, all things, into perspective. being the wife that i need to be, parenting in a loving and EFFECTIVE manner, sharing friendships with those that stick closer than a sister, and striving to show others that Jesus loves them more than anyone or anything!

on this tuesday, how is your life. ridiculous or sound? happy or sad? organized or in the throws or total disarray? whatever the case may be, a little time with the Saviour of the world would turn things around and make the day even brighter. i guarantee it! have a great tuesday!

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picture credit: soul pants

5 inserts?

i only had 3 coupon inserts. what about everyone else?
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nice morning

i am sitting here drinking my coffee (my pleasantmaker), reading my favorite blogs, and watching it sprinkle rain, inside a nice warm cozy house. it is so nice! what is your favorite "morning thing?"

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picture credit: michael tallm

let's go krogering

i am off to the grocery in just a few. when do you like to shop?
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