number one reason I would never homeschool... out of a list of 87 reasons... the farmer and I would have no peaceful lunch dates anymore... (#2 was the fact that I would kill my children... murder them... if they couldn't get to me first) this is no criticism of homeschooling by any means... there are so... Continue Reading →
if there is one thing I know how to do, it is to compete… I feel at home when I’m trying to win a board game, leg wrestle or run… I can turn basically any fun, social situation into a competition… I have turned friend vacations into ping-pong tournaments and bocci ball on the beach... Continue Reading →
around two months ago Saskatchewan was hit with a terrible snow storm... it was right around the time that Haiti was hit with a terrible hurricane... and for the first time in my life I understood what it was like to go through a natural disaster... of course not on the same level as Haiti,... Continue Reading →
the farmer's grandpa is gone... our middle son got one last wink in with him, our daughter was told that she was beautiful and our oldest son got to say 'I love you' in between hockey skates... and the farmer got to tell him that if he was waiting for harvest to end to go,... Continue Reading →
"God gives us what we would have asked for if we knew everything He knows" this is my Dad's text to me last night, referring to something he had heard Timothy Keller say... and in reference to the struggling crops we have... I took some pictures about two weeks ago as little Missy and I... Continue Reading →
the farmer's Grandma passed away at age 83... she was the matriarch of a family that consists of her amazing farmer husband, 6 children, 22 grandchildren and 48 great-grandchildren... (I could be wrong with this count...) I have begun to write about her roughly 7 times now, have had to stop, delete and re-do... and... Continue Reading →
'things I knew when I was young... some were true and some were wrong... one day I pray I'll be more than my father's son' (the Lumineers) why do we think some things are so important for our children to do? and it gives us such joy to see when they actually 'get it' and... Continue Reading →
I guess I want my boys to fall in love... this was in question earlier this winter... I was more of the mindset that they would always love me the most and even if there is a little lady in their lives someday, she would pale in comparison to their mother.. my reasoning was that... Continue Reading →
as I cooked this casserole and took pictures with my iPhone... I was not pretending to be on a cooking show... ok... that was a lie... I pretended the entire time that I was on a cooking show and actually talked to my live audience a little bit... out loud... I have a rather... Continue Reading →
i feed a farmer 