It was brought to my attention by more than one individual that I haven’t posted an update in a while! My husband being one of them! 😆 He should know how crazy busy it’s been lately. But the longer I go without posting, the more piles up to report! Ack! So I’m parked in a chair on the back porch while the boys chase chickens and dig holes in the yard and I’m going to do my best to recall everything since October 28th. 😳

Halloween- We did pumpkin patches, fall festivals and a trunk or treat put on the City of Brownsboro. Local businesses, churches, individuals and even the police chief set up tables at the city park and the kids made the rounds. It was small but cute. Next year, I want to set up a table at it since door to door isn’t really a thing here. The kids were Cleopatra, Iron Man and Chris Kratt from the PBS show Wild Kratts.

Home Improvements- Nathan and I made a weekend run to Houston leaving the kids with my mom on the 4th. We filled his truck and the trailer on Saturday morning with more of our crap, attended a wedding Saturday night, and came right back home on Sunday morning. It was exhausting, but obviously worth it from a productive and entertaining POV. A few days before that trip, we got the rest of the mudroom gutted, the new flooring in and installed a new toilet! Man it felt good to walk down the hall to go pee! 😆 The week after, we then attempted to hang the new Sheetrock ourselves. Yea. Not much fun. One hundred years can do a number on the “squareness” of a room! So after some choice words, we conceded that this was best left for professionals…artists really… And we called a drywall company. They gave us a great quote (considering the load they were taking off of us) and would get to work mid next week. We spent the weekend before installing a new window 😍. Nathan may tell a different tale, but I think it went great! I can’t wait to see these suckers all over the house! 😜 The drywall company took 2 days to complete the room and I. LOVE. IT. There’s not even a ceiling in there yet, but it feels like such a room now! We’ve been staring at studs for too long, y’all. 

Homeschool Happenings- Weston has really taken off with his handwriting skills and we have begun working on the sounds each letter makes. I am so enjoying letting him set the pace. Ashlyn began the “Little House Series” by Laura Ingalls Wilder and is currently half way through Little House in the Big Woods. She is really enjoying finding parallels to Laura’s life then and what we’re doing now. I’ve found a wealth of ideas online for making the books an entire unit study and we were able to incorporate science by making our own butter! Unfortunately we don’t have a churn, so we did the jar method. Playdoughtoplato gave us great instructions and I’m going to search this site for more kids friendly science! We totally made butter! And it totally tasted amazing! Don’t be surprised if y’all all get a tub of butter for Christmas now! 😉

I found some AMAZING YouTube videos about the history of Thanksgiving and I’ve enjoyed them as much as the kids! It’s really got us excited to make our own first feast in our farmhouse as well. And on a Thanksgiving related note, just today the Brownsboro Chief of Police came by the house and delivered complete Thanksgiving meal! Turkey included! 😮 He said every year they pick a few families and since we were new, the city wanted to welcome us. Wow. I’ve already purchased a behemoth turkey and have a meal planned, so tomorrow I’m working on finding a family or group to pay it forward too. I am just in awe of where we have landed finally.

Next time I’ll be writing about Archer’s THIRD birthday and our sure to be amazing Thanksgiving.

-Lindsay