Mommy Secrets

This week my husband and I are going away on a all expense paid trip for our anniversary from my company for our 15th anniversary. It’s the first time we’ve been without kids for longer than 24 hours ever. We are so excited and I was planning to get everything in order this weekend but things went a little differently than planned when a crazy storm blew through. We had a really strong storm blow through that wrecked havoc on our property. It blew our coop over, snapped a tree in our orchard off, ripped the roof off one of our little goat barns, and blew buckets down our street. It was crazy. The big boys and dad worked hard to get everything back up and repaired. I stayed inside and made them chicken and dumplings and oatmeal raisin cookies. Notice the sky in these pictures? It’s crazy how beautiful it gets outside after a storm. After this weekend, today I will be running around like a crazy woman getting everything in order.

Anyone else have tweens in the house? This is my second oldest and he just turned 10 this past spring. In between the ages of 10-12 so many things happen so quickly. They shoot up in height, the attitudes arrive, and their faces start to change. It’s like you can SEE them changing every day. They are lost somewhere between boyhood and manhood and I wish I could just slow time down. Here he is with his nerf gun in the shot as a reminder of the little boy he still is and yet he’s got on his backwards hat and feet on the counter like a man in training memorizing one of Ronald Reagan’s speeches. Such a juxtaposition of the two stages of life.

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This weekend we repainted the chicken coop. Swipe to see before. We are officially rid of all the “poop brown” paint 😂 When we moved into our house it was painted this brown color and we painted the coop to match it when we built it. My husband built it himself after I gave him a design. We chose to paint it the accent color of our house that we repainted last year. Swipe to see it on our house. Picking paint colors seriously stresses me out, even for something as simple as a chicken coop! I am so glad to be rid of the ugly brown completely now! The kids were all thrilled when we bought them cheap paint brushes and let them help. It was a fun family project even if my@toddler got more paint on himself than the coop.