Happy 4th of July Weekend! Hope you are enjoying and appreciating our freedoms in this great country! We were supposed to go to a friend’s house for dinner and fireworks but because it’s been so dry in NC they couldn’t do the fireworks so it got cancelled. This week a friend from church who’s a …
Ahh, we’re back to normal (sort of) My husband drives over to his parents and is there daily for 8hrs a day, BUT it looks like we’ve found someone to help and hopefully she can come 3 days a week! I get to sew a bit and listen to Audiobooks, this is my latest series, …
You may have noticed that posts and emails were a bit light this week and last weekend, that’s because I was away last weekend on a last minute trip! I took Anja with me to Kentucky for the weekend to see the Noah’s Ark! It was amazing!! and it was HUGE! You enter at the …
Our 2023/2024 school year is over! We’ve finished 6th and 3rd grade and the girls have also done their End of grade testing online, so now it’s officially summer for them!! It’s been 2 weeks since my in-laws have moved in with us and we’re getting more into a rhythm, it’s hard though, when you …
It’s been a week now of my in-laws living with us! It’s been an adjustment to say the least! Grandma is 93 and has heart failure and is weak, grandpa is 97 and has dementia and that’s worse, we still have to show him where the bathroom is and especially in the middle of the …
Did you know about the rewards system on Beaquilter? When you buy something on the website, for every dollar you spend you get one point and every point counts as 2 cents. So if you purchased a $10 pattern, you’d get 10 points which is 20cents and when you then purchase something else and you’re …
Monday we had 4 days planned at the beach, my friend has a house she rents out there and in March I asked her what she had available in the summer up until September and these were the ONLY days, a little too early for us for homeschooling for Solveig was done, so we took …
This week Dan prepped and stained the hardwood floor section in our kitchen where the old cabinets were and the wood was just bare. We knew that if you add NEW hardwood floors up against an OLD floor you have to “feather” the boards in, so we figured stained was the same method, so he …
Oh Boy the Cicadas are out now! luckily our neighborhood is not really wooded, only at the edges and then whatever random trees we’ve all planted since moving in, so the Cicadas are not that loud here but it’s just a low humming constantly, but in TOWN it’s very wooden and OLD and LOUD!! Bjorn’s …
It’s spring time! The Cicadas are out (not too loud near us, but pretty loud downtown!) Bjorn LOVES watermelon, so this year Dan bought some watermelon and pumpkin seeds and planted them in starter boxes They quickly grew! He also tilled a nice plot for them and he’s working on some sort of drainage …