Author: Gracie

Jeff was supposed to go back to work this past Monday, but he found out that he wasn’t on the schedule until today. So we had an extra 3 days to have fun together, and it was lovely. It’s my first full day alone with the kids, and I...

I’ve been making our own ice cream for a while now. We have an ice cream maker, and we just suck the cream off of the top of our raw milk and run it through. Recently, though, we tasted someone else’s raw milk ice cream, and it was AMAZING....

Tonight I’ll be processing more beans, making yogurt, making eggplant parmesan (at Jeff’s request), and reorganizing (or rather, organizing, it’s so crazy up there!) my craft space. I noticed yesterday or the day before that the beans were looking harvestable again, and so I went out on this deliciously...

I threw a tantrum today. To preface this, I had just spent a pretty restless night with little Asa- he wasn’t crying, but just grunting and squirming and lightly fussing. He spent most of the night half-asleep on my chest, nursing here and there and trying to get comfortable....

There’s this quote from A Language Older Than Words that has stuck with me, and I wanted to share it here.

"Part of our task as members of a community is to feed each other. I thought again of our fundamental inversion of all relatedness, of how we nearly always...

Jeff and Vera are at the park. They invited me along, but I thought I’d stay back and get a little writing in while Asa sleeps… well, he hasn’t been doing much of that, so I probably just should have gone. I’ll just write what I can. Anyway, it’s Jeff’s...

Today has been full of inspiration- not a heck of a lot of doing, but hey, why not dream and imagine while I’m stuck in one spot nursing most of the day? I’m finding that I’m getting really...

There are few things that bring me as much joy as ripe tomatoes. It’s fun to see how easily pleased I am when it comes down to it. Strip away the distractions, the stress, the tired mama, the list of things...

August is here, and things are happening out in the garden. Tomatoes are finally turning red (although the blight seems to be taking some of them already, so we’ll see how much we get out of them). I’m really determined to store everything we can out of this garden-...

Lots going on, although the pace seems slower. It’s as it should be. It’s that strange first month with a new baby, where you’re tired but you’ve just been sitting and nursing all day (which I know, it IS doing something and using energy, but it’s just a different...