life is but a dream: Signs of Spring

Under dressed children

Green

Muddy children

Puddles

An overabundance of wet outdoor clothes

Yes, spring must be close now...

2015 List

Good books (right now Big Magic)
Co-op day
Thanksgiving preparations
Movie night
Finishing quilts
Time for fires in the fireplace
My parents
Fall air
Watching butterflies emerge
Homeschooling
Black raspberry season
The new kitchen island Ryan made me
All of the mud pies sitting on the picnic table
Beach days with just my kiddos
Progress in the garden
Rearranging
My new (very old) chairs
The nap I had this afternoon
Mother's Day and my family for making the day so special
Sunny, warm days and evenings to garden
New pea trellises
Healthy, happy, Jackson
Sap season
Buying seeds
Barefoot (in March)
Yummy leftovers for dinner
Listening to my kids build with blocks
Learning to make time for myself
Dreaming and planning
A New Year

2014 List

Making pumpkin bread with Grace
Chickens laying eggs again
Time to write
Dreaming, new ideas forming
New books
Sitting by the fire
Apple picking
Maple trees
Harvesting pumpkins
Autumn air
Silence
Long summer days
The new energy created after moving furniture around
Sewing
Our garden and time in it
A clean desk
Micro-greens
Dreaming big
Time
Dandelions
Inspiration, however it strikes
Planting time
Sun
Baby chicks coming (maybe they will bring Spring)
Sleep
Tea
True friends
Theo chocolate (the best chocolate in the world)
Firewood
Learning new things
Homeschooling
Opportunities
The slowness of winter

2013 List

Christmas gift making and planning
A good week
Snow
Gingerbread cookies
A long, relaxing weekend ahead of us
The smell of baking pumpkins
Sun shining in on a cold fall day
Kids who are just as excited about thanksgiving as i am
A crackling fire
A clean desk
New adventures on the horizon
Beautiful, beautiful summer weather
This blog (reminiscing tonight and getting teary eyed)
Rain
Planting the garden
New opportunities
Sun (please stay)
Pancakes for dinner
The feeling of moving forward
Playing "restaurant" before dinner tonight
This blog
Garden planning
Green mint tea with cream
Garden dreaming
Sun
Maple tree tapping talk
Sleeping in
Snow
Chocolate
The joy of watching Nora learn to walk (one step and one day at a time)
Blanket forts
Time
New books

2011/12 List

A toasty fire
My new weck jars
That little moment yesterday when Grace and Ryan were cooking dinner and Jackson and Nora were happily playing with new toys
Their balaclavas (can't get over the cuteness)
Our ice skating pond
Snow
"Animal, Vegetable, Miracle"
Kale
Farm dinners
Fall air
Planting seeds
This amazing spring
Baby slings
Our little girl
Family
Being home
Hotel pools
FInishing all these posts I started long ago
Cookies
FInding happiness in strange places
Fire out, and we are all okay
Snow!
Sewing (I'm in love with sewing these days)
Making gifts and checking off my list
Christmas music
Our tree farm
Baby coming soon
"Vinoculars"
Our hike
Family
Thanksgiving food
New kitchen walls
Watching their excitement as went trick-or-treating
Baby planning
Tonights yummy pototoes
Shopping at the co-op
All the barn cleaning
Writing class tomorrow
My new camera lens from my dad
Cooler air
Chicken coop light (so our eggs will continue)
Ryan home today
Applesauce
Fall colors
The first pumpkins
Edamame for lunch and dinner
Roast chicken with garden herbs
Cucumbers for pickles
New library found
Local farms
Nature walks
Cooler air
Painting for no reason
Yoga
Late night oatmeal
Black raspberries on pancakes
Fog
That excited, end of the (school) year butterflies feeling
Getting half the gardens watered
Cow dreams
Alden's ice cream
One day left of work
Barefeet
Herb garden done
New strawberry bed
My fig tree
Gardening and more gardening
Being outside all day
Dirt
Rocks
The most adorable baby chicks
Clean house
Two weeks off!
Dinner on the deck
Warm sun
Spring!
First gallon of sap
Playing outside all day
Singing birds
Sunny winter day with a few hints of spring
Yummy broccoli stir-fry for dinner
Playing games and puzzles with my two favorite people
More seeds planted
Going to bed early
Seeds ordered
Chicken pot pie for dinner
My cat snuggled in my lap
Melting snow
Sping air

2010 List

New sweaters
Time to write
Big fluffy snow flakes
Apple trees ordered
Not having to leave the house
Christmas leftovers
Quiet
Lovely Christmas gifts
Christmas shopping
Mountains of snow
Really good finds at the thrift store today
Dinner with Ryan
A night off
Pulling our black raspberries out of the freezer for breakfast
Seeing Santa Claus
Our Christmas tree up
A lot of left over turkey
A very happy Thanksgiving
Our fireplace
My new winter hat and mittens
(Finally) more pumpkin muffins
My new chalkboard (again)
Enya "And Winter Came"
Thanksgiving planning
Fireplace coming along...
Baking the last two pumpkins
Getting into the Christmas spirit
First snow
Ryan back home
Venison
A visit with my Grandma
Grace and Jackson playing happily all morning
Cinnamon bread
Sleeping in
My new kitchen chalkboard
Frost
Clean house
Rocking Jackson to sleep
A long bath
Rain
This weekend
Beautiful weather
Being home
Ready for bed
Warm fall days
Leaves to jump in
Fall colors
Our good friends having us over for dinner
Snuggling up with Jackson reading books
Painting the barn
Tights and mary janes
First day of school
Eating pumpkin muffins with Ryan
Quiet moments
Fall planting
Dinner from the garden
Soups in my freezer
Another beach day
Cooler air
Time to write
And watermelon
Minnesota Midget Melons
Two more weeks of summer
My first carrot cake... yum
My river
A weekend at home
Meals from my garden
Long summer days
First Tomato
This blog
Jackson two years old
Eating meals from the garden
Family
Being home
Black raspberries
Laundry away
Oatmeal buttermilk muffins
The river
Clean kitchen
Watermelon planted
Naps
Jackson's new hat
A deck date
A good night sleep
Blackberry ice cream
Dinner on the deck
Visiting Ryan at work
Painting toes
Sun finally coming tomorrow and this weekend
Almost finished with my papers
My new hibiscus
Rain
Family time
A pile of dirt for the gardens
Vases of fresh flowers
Spring air
The sounds of my children playing together
Feels like summer
First seeds in the gound
Our new (gifted) patio table
Having the fam over for dinner
Planting flowers
Swinging "up to the roof" with Grace
A hot sunny day
A weekend full of family time
The Easter Bunny
Breakfast together
How much fun we had having our friends over for dinner
Ryan home early
SARK
Another warm day
Walking with Grace to the pond to meet new friends
Herb garden ready...
Sun
65 degrees
Sewing time
Clean sheets
Time alone with Jackson
Laughter from my children
A sunny day
A date with Grace
Garden dreaming
The weekend
New books from the library
Homemade veggie soup
A sense of calm

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