Life in Nebraska ....

Summer.  It's a beautiful summer too.  It has stayed cool and wet and projects are getting done.   My laundry room/entry/mudroom is getting a makeover.  I dumped it out the week I was teaching at VBS and it was so bad that I needed to paint it.   I ripped the cabinet down from above the washer and put shelves up that I can mostly reach.   Now I need to finish painting doors and shelves and trim.  It's a major trick to keep it all looking like I actually did anything in there though because  I have big boys and because I haven't taught them to clean as they walk.   I'm thinking it'll get easier when I get a garage.                   My Summer coffee place.   I dug a rotted plank out of the shed and made a shelf above the piano.  And updated pictures of my favorite kids.  And I revamped this computer desk closet in Marc...

Everyone should do a recap of their life now and then I suppose.  Instagram has pretty much taken over my social media updates about Life.  But here is where I come back for a timeline of my life from the time my oldest was six.  So now he's 16 about.  That means I've been blogging for ten years. We made this little haymow into a cute little place to hang out for the kids.  Jeanie is sulking because Mathias didn't let her on his hammock with him.  Poor thing.  She loves him so much and he needs here to keep him nice.  He's always been a bulldozer.  She keeps him on the soft and kinder path.  We had a full double rainbow right over our house on Mother's Day weekend.  10 years ago on Mother's day weekend we lost our 8 wk baby.  Some Mother's Days hit hard and some are more precious.  This one was good. We went to Tennessee and Georgia and South Caroline at the end of April.  It was beautiful in every ...

Thursday afternoon the boys drove into the lane and got out and found the tire was fast deflating.  So after supper I looked out and found all four kids getting that tire off.  This is the small kind of thing I'm glad I have pictures of.  Because they won't all go work on a tire together probably ever again.  Next time I blink Z will be graduated and Keagan will be driving.  Ball game Friday night.  We went to a sale barn on Saturday and sold some hay.  I wish I could have gotten a picture of the two Arab ladies sitting beside the chickens for sale and waiting for their dark skinned muscled bald men.  She adores  him.   Matt was telling them all something terribly important.  Hand motions and all....but when I asked what it was none of them knew.  Pick me Pick me!  After the Sale barn we picked up a giant load of cedar mulch and came home and mulched.  And later t...