A Pause

It's been a long time since I posted. It's been a crazy 4 months. In that time span, we have: put in our spring garden, put in most of our summer garden, started harvesting and filling customer shares, added 4 working shares, started a new flock of chickens, moved the walls in two upstairs bedrooms back into attic space, added supports for the "slanty room", painted two upstairs rooms, painted the dining room, added on a laundry/bathroom, had a season of soccer, butchered and processed (with friends) 14 meat chickens, purchased 1/8 of a local cow for our freezer, successfully chaired another session of Extended Day for the girls' school, attended countless meetings for school, and otherwise juggled life as best we could. Blogging about it all just hasn't been possible.

Eli and I had a moment, late last year, when we realized that our little house, on our little plot of land, is exactly where we want to be. We knew we'd outgrown our little house. So we started dreaming about what it would take to make it really functional. An extra bathroom? Absolutely. One bathroom for 5 people was not enough. A utility room to handle the dirt from the garden? Lovely. An extra bedroom for Ward? Oh, it'd be nice to get him out of our bed! So then, after the dreaming was done and the list made, we started talking to friends and family. Woohoo, a dear family friend had a lull in his building business and was willing to tackle our project. Several calls to the bank and we realized that this was all very do-able. So 4 months later, Ward is sleeping in his own bed, I have a double utility sink for rinsing produce and bathing a dirty baby, and a bathroom in which to lock myself and have a moment of privacy. Eli and I keep walking around feeling like royalty in this house. We are blessed beyond measure.