The Best Nest

When I was a very little girl, I had a book called “The Best Nest” by P. D. Eastman.  My mom put a little tune to the song Mrs. Bird sings “I love my house, I love my nest, in all the world, my nest is best!”  Now I sing it to my kids when we read the story. 

I was amused today as, when I was sitting at work wishing the day to hurry by, I found it running through my head…  I guess I really do love my nest!!!  Silly me!

"Don't squish nature!!!"

Sunday, I caught the twins sitting in the driveway over a dead June Bug in the Lotus Posture (Padmasana) with their hands pressed together in prayer.  I only wish I could have gotten a picture.  This one of the royal cutenesses will have to do.  J

Small Town ,USA

We’ve had several long exhausting weeks in a row, with another couple of busy ones on the horizon, but we are finally living at the farm.  We set up the beds just in time to catch us as we collapsed last night, barely able to put together a coherent word!  

The next few weeks will involve unpacking, completing the kitchen and trying to get the yard under control… all in time to celebrate the twin’s SIXTH birthday, if you can believe that!?  My babies will be six!

Speaking of kids, we enrolled the munchkins in their new school. Tomorrow will be their first day. 

It’s definitely the small town feel revolving around faith and sports.  It was refreshing to see the bible verse plaques in the registrar’s office at the elementary school and the school office at the intermediate.  Invitations to various VBS schools were extended/suggested to us as a means of meeting people and settling in. They take their sports seriously here so I’m sure we’ll fit right in!  We were reminded by many people to watch Kenny Chesney’s “The Boys of Fall” video that was filmed there.  State Football Champs in ’74, ‘95, ‘98, ‘99, ‘00 ‘01 ‘05 ’07 and I hear they have a serious baseball and basketball team as well.  Lots to look forward to in the coming months and lots of school activities for these three to get into!

 

Clear, starry skies and fresh air... here we come!

After getting married last year, we decided the next logical step would be to buy a house.  Soon after Christmas we started looking for homes in the neighborhoods we had spent nearly four years drooling over, thinking that was where we would settle.  The more we looked, the more we felt a growing sense of dissatisfaction. 

Having spent a great deal of time in the country when we were growing up, and the idea of being able to reach out your bedroom window and touch your neighbor's house was stiffling.  Slowly, we expanded our search and after spending several days driving out in the country, we went from looking at homes with one acre, to not even considering anything under four. 

With the picture of our future clear , it was just a matter of finding "our spot".  A spot to raise our family, let our kids enjoy some of the experiences we had growing up.  Land to raise a garden, chickens, pigs, beef, maybe even a dairy cow... room to roam.  

These past few months have been a long roller coaster ride, but it's finally set and the movers come on Sunday! We are remodeling the kitchen (pictures to come) and packing like crazy... and we are sooo looking forward to having a place for the kids to do real kid stuff... dig in the dirt, play with the animals, learn about hard work and chores.  The idea of raising "cookie cutter", addicted to TV and video games, materialistic, keep up with the Jones children is just frightful to me. 

I'm not sure when I'll find the time as we have a list of projects long enough to last well into 2015, but I plan to document as much of this adventure as I possibly can.  Check back for updates! 

 

Eliana (almost 6), Skylar (7), Luke (11.5), Elijah (almost six)