I recently let the farmer down... 18 Valentines into our relationship and I am still wounding and disappointing him... finding myself in a situation where all I want from the person I love most in this whole world is for them to forgive me... and believe in me... and know I'll do better next time...... Continue Reading →
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 →
watching farm boys play basketball might be the best entertainment that is out there… the only way I could describe it to the farmer was… ‘do you remember last Christmas when we went to that outdoor rink in Calgary and there were those 5 guys in their twenties there that had no idea how to... 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 →
Mondays are supposed to be my alone days... they are supposed to be a day that I get the housework and laundry done in silence... a day where I can ponder the events of the weekend and decide all the ways I should become a better person... everyone should get to be alone on Mondays...... 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 →
my google search this morning was ‘top things to do in Camrose, Alberta’… the number one thing was ‘get in your car and drive away’… then immediately I googled ‘top things to do in Dodsland, Saskatchewan’… there was only one option for fun in Dodsland and it was the museum… which in my 17 years... Continue Reading →
i feed a farmer 