We are SO thankful!
It helps with this whole being stuck at home thing tremendously!
The farmers are even in the fields!
The boys built a second garden bed for us.
I am so excited to plant them both – hopefully very soon if this weather holds!
We have been enjoying the sunny days to the fullest!
Long walks and bike rides on our road, meals on the deck, and just sitting outside to watch the kiddos play!
We started a new Sunday evening tradition three weeks ago, and hope to continue it through the whole summer.
We make homemade ice cream!
It is super fun to pick a new flavor each week, and it is delicious!
It seems we have a new resident of Twin Oaks now that spring is here.
The children named him Freckles!
I will admit, at first it was neat that he was hanging around our home.
NOT so much anymore, ha, ha!
He is LOUD.
At 5:00 a.m.
He likes to stand on top of our vehicles out front and cackle at us!
Or right under our master bedroom window.
Mostly he likes to peck at our sliding glass door and taunt our dogs!
Crazy bird.
So….if anyone would like to adopt a pet pheasant, please let us know!!
Sadie and Ruby (and someone who is typing this post!) will thank you!
I sure hope you are seeing glimpses of spring where you are too!
Just look at this sky!!
It has been a rainy and somewhat stormy day today, but the air smells so fresh and clean now!
Hopefully the rain is washing all the sand off the roads from this winter.
May is just around the corner, and we are looking forward to the season change VERY much.
Here’s to spring!!!
Hope you all are doing well and looking forward to May too!
If you would like to eat healthier here are three things you can try to change:
Focus on those whole foods for dinner too!
We roast so many things on a sheet pan!
As far as serving your kiddos snacks, don’t have things in your home you don’t want them to eat.
Homemade popsicles are a fun snack idea.
You can still bake and eat healthy.
Doesn’t that bread in that last photo look amazing?
We have three refrigerators here at Twin Oaks.
Hopefully this post will inspire you the way looking at photos of food inspires me!
Thankfully the weather is warming up this week.
We are grateful the Lord gives us glimpses of spring too!
I am still cleaning things in the afternoons.
Someone had to do some immediate cleaning when her blueberry smoothie went all over the cabinets and the ceiling!
Thankfully we are blessed with our four still being able to work.
Being in town is rather eerie.
Speaking of our working ones – Grant and Chad are helping some guys who are building trucks for Blake for Mathy Construction – so they are kind of working for Mathy in a round about way!
When I was in town one Friday I stopped to get two new games.
We have been sending snail mail to some people – letters and drawings and coloring pages that have been colored.
One morning our dog Sadie was downstairs just going crazy.
I cannot put into words how thankful I am when everyone arrives home on Friday night and I know the weekend is ahead of us!
Addie Mae also worked on a new recipe for her food blog!
Tate helped me in the kitchen on Saturday, as usual!
Sunday we worshiped, our fifth week of doing church on line.
Since everyone else has been working, Lane, Tate, Eliza and I are usually the only ones at home.
Tate and Eliza finished their 2nd grade Math curriculum, so we just continued on into 3rd grade!
I started the Bible Study For All Ages curriculum with these three last week.
We do illustrations and narrations with this study, of course!
Since the library is closed (sigh) we focus the rest of our morning school time on math, grammar and science.
The rest of our day is very weather dependent.
Other afternoons we will listen to a radio program or watch an educational show.
When I glanced over while watching a movie with the kids one afternoon and saw Eliza like this I just had to get a photo!
On nice days we get outside.
My trio has been playing downstairs a lot too.
I still love to read aloud to these kiddos and they love to be read to!
We had a fun day on Lane’s birthday trying to make it special!
We made Mud Buddies first thing that morning to kick off the celebrating right!
Lane received a package in the mail from his big sister and her crew.
Breakfast and lunch times look like this!
I am using my time with just these three at home wisely, and working diligently to train up my helpers to do more and more!
The Wednesday before Easter our Pastor and his wife had a Zoom call with the children from our church!
Dynamics is always something I love to see.
When all this craziness started happening out there in the world, I kept focusing on a question I saw: “What do I want the children to remember about this time in their lives?”