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Continue reading →: Unashamedly bragging
Photo credit I’ve been thinking a lot about today. Today, 2000 years ago. The entire center and source of all things, all the purposes of time and history and existence culminating in one Man’s abused and slaughtered body hanging on a Roman cross. There is no god like mine! All…
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Continue reading →: Do you know Jochebed?
Moses in his mothers arms’ by Simeon Solomon (1840-1905) *This post was originally written in 2014. I’ve been thinking a lot about my sons and my prayers for them… this post came to mind. * What do you do as a mom when you know your child grows up under…
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Continue reading →: Meanwhile, back at the farm: Journal of a Milk Maid Day 3 {and thoughts on Nahum}
(Daylight and Daisy) (Daisy, the more timid of the two doelings, warming up to me and my hat) (Daisy and Darla (the momma goat) (Daisy) I thought it was neat that both my doelings have these pretty markings on their backs. They both have a black strip down their…
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Continue reading →: Journal of a Milk Maid: Day 1
Warning: This post was written last night under the influence of head cold medicine. I think I can add Milk Maid to my list of titles. Today was my first day milking Darla. This is her first freshening. First time on the milk stand. First time for everything. I’ve been…
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Continue reading →: A mouthful of a day
Today started off, off, and has continued that way. The husband stayed home sick. The kids were informed last night right before bed that the announcement by dad that there would be no school today was really just an April Fool’s trick. This produced tears in one childand I decided…
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Continue reading →: Goats and Highways
Having goats is great entertainment. I’d take a few hours out here with my goats over T.V. any day. They’re so goofy and clumsy and fun. The momma goat, Darla, is doing a fine job for a first time mom. She leads her kids out of the pen twice a…
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Continue reading →: Darla, Daylight and Daisy
I’m a goat momma! Getting to be there to watch my doe Nubian, Darla, give birth to her twin does, Daylight and Daisy, was one of my top ten life experiences for sure. For the last couple days I’ve been thinking it was “the day.” By my dates she was…
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Continue reading →: Ruins of glory
We live among ruins. More than 12 years ago, James and I went on a cruise. One of the places we visited out of Cancun, Mexico was some Mayan ruins… can’t remember what it was called. When you visit a site of ruins there is intrigue and interest in what…
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Continue reading →: Honestly, I’m drooping
Nine years ago I started keeping a journal which I only write in at the end of the year. The word “faith” is on the cover. It’s where I write reflections on the year and my prayers and longings for the year to come. I read through the previous years’…
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Continue reading →: Christmas madness?
I did some copying work for my 5th grader’s teachers today, and then ate lunch with both my boys. On my way out the building a woman who has worked as a crossing guard there for a long time greeted me and threw in, “All the Christmas madness got to…
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