Last Year in Review

Looks like it's been a while since I last posted. Ooops. As usual, I guess. This is just part of my personality and anyone who knows me should know this. I'm horrid about remembering birthdays (including my husband's as well as my own), I usually get the last of my Christmas cards out after New Years (still have a buncha them to do so par for the course), and I tend to forget things quite easily.

But there's many things I managed to NOT forget over the last year.  Here's a recap of 2014 on our farm.

The farm was busy. Well, when is it not? But you know what I mean. We fought rain, snow, sun, and pretty much everything you typically get weatherwise in a year but the fields got planted, the crops got tended, it all got harvested, and it looks like we had a pretty decent year. Not phenomenal but decent. Can't ask for more than that, right?

We started renovating our house again and while progress seems to be agonizingly slow, progress IS being made. The plan is to finish wiring the basement this winter, move the bedrooms downstairs, and then start working on the upstairs. We're still looking at a few years before the whole project is done but what's a few more years when we've been doing this for the last 7 years? :) However, until we can move the bedrooms, our bed shares space with the couch in the living room.

Another big change was in our family. Baby girl joined us in early July and she has been a joy ever since. Her big brother and big sister simply adore her, and spend hours every day talking to her, reading to her, playing with her, and just generally entertaining her. It was an adjustment for me to have a newborn again because until R came along, my 'baby' was going on 3 but it wasn't long until it all started coming back to me. R is now 6 months old, oh so curious about e.v.e.r.y.t.h.i.n.g., babbling up a storm, and trying to roll over & sit up. V & A are growing by leaps and bounds too. V will be 5 in just a few weeks and is still farm kid through and through. It's not uncommon for him to ask if he can go with Daddy and be a bit sad when he can't. A hates being left behind because she's Daddy little shadow too. It just amazes me that my almost 5 year old and my 3 year old know more about farm machinery and how it operates than I do but it's like they are little sponges. They just absorb so much when they are out with L in the field, in the barn, checking irrigators, wherever. My kids love farm life and I hope they always appreciate it this much, whether they stay in the agricultural industry or not.

The rest were mundane, ordinary things. We worked on a few building projects here and there on the farms, still have two dogs keeping the rabbits out of my garden and coons out of the chicken coop, the cows are still milking, calves are still being born, and we even squeezed in a trip or two. It's been mostly life as usual.