postcards

Work on the addition has continued, with plenty of help from many supervisors… some wearing cookie pajamas. Once the floor was on, we decided to go ahead and paint it to protect it from the rain.  Then the walls went up. And they began, with the help of friends and neighbors, to put the floor…

Though I often wake early, it is rarely to the idyllic barn chores one might associate with the homestead life. When I wake is determined entirely by babes, as is much of my life these days. Mothering newborns is a surrendering of any and all preconceived notions of how my time ought to be spent….

We live in about 300 square feet, these three children, husband, baby belly, and I. Most of you already know that, but there it is, in case you didn’t. It is a makeshift cabin built by my husband which is attached to the small camper we moved into when we first arrived on the land…