Relatable Experiences

This week, we said goodbye to my Grandma Reiffenberger – or Grandma in the Blue House, as we used to call her when we were little. We knew this day was coming, but it doesn’t make it any easier. I’m not sure you can ever truly prepare yourself to lose a loved one. She was […]

Each week when I don’t have a good idea of what I’m going to blog about, I tell Dan I’m just going to write about how good looking he is. And every time he rolls his eyes at me and goes, “please don’t.” WELL, I’m not going to write about how good looking he is,

I haven’t talked about my boy, Dobby, in a while. He’s still here and doing well! Although, it’s become pretty clear lately that my little boy is turning into an old man. And despite the fact that I’ve told him many times he’s not allowed to get old, he insists on doing it anyway. He’s

For the first time in almost three months, neither Dan nor I have to go to the farm AND we have zero plans. Don’t get me wrong, I love the farm, and I love how much Dan loves the farm. But this time of year starts getting crazy with planting, picking rock, miscellaneous projects of

This week, I want to share something I read in the book Iron Hope by James Lawrence. For a bit of background, James Lawrence was the keynote speaker at our NATE UNITE show this last February. He’s an endurance athlete who is known as the “Iron Cowboy” because he has broken the world record for

I want to give a little shout out to Dan this week. We’ve been through a lot over the last couple of months and there’s been a lot of grief. I’ve probably been a little difficult to be around sometimes as I try to manage my emotions, but he hasn’t left my side once. If

I found myself getting very upset with God this week. I’m usually a strong believer in “everything happens for a reason,” but sometimes, I just don’t understand what that reason is. And no matter how much I plead and beg with Him to help me understand, I don’t. And who knows if I ever will.

It has been an emotionally tolling week – we’ve all been there. One thing that did lift my spirits was that this time last year Dan and I were on our honeymoon in Belize, and all the photos have been popping up in my memories this week. I’m choosing to focus on the sunny beach

Has anyone else noticed that after a very stressful event, your body just kind of gives out on you!? It’s like it knows you finally have time to relax, so obviously you have time to be sick too, right? That’s what happened here. I got back from Vegas on Friday, and by Monday, I had