Oh my…..it’s here!
In all its splendor!
And it is taking my breath away!
Hello, buds! Welcome back!
Hello, chives! I have plans for you!
Hello, strawberries! Can’t wait to be seeing red!
Hello, children! Will you ever come back inside?
Hello, precious kittens! How was your winter?
Hello, front porch! How I have missed hanging out with you!
Spring, are you here to stay? We sure hope so!!
Umm. We need ya.
Praising the Lord for our protection again today, and for two awesome guys who stopped to help us change that flat tire.
Cause my phone had no cell service on the country road we were stuck on.
No one was home at that farm behind us.
And I had two kiddos with me.
But at least Grant said as he helped me load up to leave just a few minutes earlier…”It is such a beautiful day! At least you won’t get frost bite if you get stuck on the side of a road!”
Ha. Ha. Ha.
Not that I am looking to blame anyone or anything.
Eliza was so enthralled with the whole experience that she laid her head on my shoulder and dozed off.
I think we better hang on to our angels….as this trend looks far from over!
Last year during our paperwork chase to Eliza, we came to a point where we were dealing with endless broken things.
It got to be comical, really, except for the financial burden right as we were preparing to travel to China!
I shared about it here, here, and again here.
In all reality, man made things on this earth are SO temporary, and everyone deals with broken things at one time or another.
As we are now in our paperwork chase to Tate, it seems our trend is starting up again. It keeps us from being bored, for sure!
I will have to say, though, that it was not comical when the brake line on our farm truck split this past week.
*Thanks, Addie Mae, for braving the ice yesterday to get these photos for me!
It split the day after Grant drove home with it FULL of a heavy load of hay.
On these hills.
And ON the day that he and Kayla were driving home with a load of feed.
On these hills.
Not only were our precious son and daughter in that truck, but also our precious grand pup and even more precious little grand baby due in October.
Grant told me “Mom, there were legions of angels surrounding us.”
Yes, Grant, you are right about that.
Thank you, Lord, for their protection!!
This first week of spring (that is what the calendar says, right?) has been full of snow, illness, and now some ice.
We woke up this morning to ice covered windows.
And 35 mph wind.
Which shook this old farm house and kept me up most of the night!
Our pup took one step outside this morning and slid down the sidewalk.
The skies look ominous today.
I have been so thankful this week.
Thankful that even though Eliza was sick, she never got this horrible cough that Chad and Lane have.
Thankful that no one else is sick!
Poor Lane has had a hard week.
Get well soon, little man.
Sweet Kayla has been sick too. But there is a baby to blame for that!!
Have I told you we are OVER THE MOON excited about that fact?!!
Here she is as we cooked dinner one night.
Smells are not so good for her right now.
Things got a little better for her this week, though.
Even though we did get a lot of snow, there was one warmer afternoon that the kiddos played in the hay loft.
I thought Eliza looked so cute in this hat that her Grandma gave her for her birthday!
Our seed order arrived!
Kayla and I had fun planning the garden together early this week.
Having that box is a promise of things to come!
School books for this fall started arriving too. Blake and I planned school for the fall on our get-away trip.
Too bad he wasn’t paying attention when I ordered Chad 5th grade workbooks. Why? Cause Chad is finishing 5th grade this year.
Duh.
Our UPS man does not like our farm when we have winter like days either. He stops at the top of the drive, calls us from his cell phone, and someone runs up to get our boxes.
Really!
We, meaning my amazing husband and I, have been working hard on paperwork for Eliza’s adoption day!
We are re-finalizing her adoption with a court date of April 7th.
Eliza’s adoption was finalized in China, but this will give us paperwork that is more familiar in the United States….like a birth certificate.
We have spent this week in quiet winter-like ways.
Eliza will sit and listen to books endlessly!
We love books.
She loves to help bake, too!
Licking all the yummyness might have something to do with it.
We are still playing lots of games, as well!
Can’t wait till we trade board games for chalk on the sidewalk, swinging on the swings, digging in the dirt, swimming in the pool….
Oh? Did I skip right to summer?
I like to dream big!!
Looks like we will have another small taste of spring this week.
The weather bug on my phone says 72 degrees for Wednesday!!
But when you live in Wisconsin, you never hold your breath for spring to arrive.
Happy second week of spring, everyone!!
