Hello Again

     It’s been quite a while. I do this every time. I’m so bad at being consistent. But I’m starting to be ok with it. Life isn’t ever consistent. And I can’t compare myself to those around me who are doing “similar” things. They aren’t working with the things I am, and vice versa. So I’m just gonna keep doing it my way. If that means coming and going from this blog, then so be cuz it. You come and go at your leisure. Check in, don’t, it’s all the same to me. I’m honestly not sure anyone truly reads this anyways. So it’s more of an open space for me to ramble. (Get it? “Rambling” Homestead? Haha. I’m a nerd, I know).

     As you can probably guess there’s been a lot going on in the last year or so I’ve been absent. Where to begin? There are so many new things since June. I’ll probably forget some things but the gist of it is here

July

​​      We went on vacation! We climbed a mountain, found a rail trail, made some art and had a ton of ice cream. Also, we stayed in an off grid cabin. No electricity or running water! It was awesome. New Hampshire is one of our favorite places. Oh, and we found out a surprise was on the way.

August

​     The garden produced so well. I got some acorn squash, and butternuts, and plenty of peppers, tomatoes, and carrots. The potatoes did fantastic as well. Sorry, no pictures. The kids and I stayed with my brother and his family for a bit on a (commercial) chicken farm. We had so much fun with the nieces.

September

​     School started back up. Goomba chose to do distance learning for the year. Thank goodness that was an option. Gummy Bear and I drive the bus. I wasn’t sure we were going to return, but a friend convinced me that it was relatively safe. And it was for a bit, until the school started changing rules and adding more and more kids to the buses, just as cases were at an all time high.

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October

     October saw 14 years for Caveman and I. It was a strange first Halloween for Gummy Bear. We did trick or treat, but only the block around our house. The garden kept producing thru November, which I was grateful for.
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November

​     No traditional family Thanksgiving for us. We stayed at home and I made a turkey dinner, complete with sauteed garden kale (a first for us) and homemade cranberry sauce. November also brought on the house hunting.

I decorated the turkey with herbs from the garden,

December

My little reindeer

​     He found a house! Nothing big, and it’s not in the woods like we had hoped, but when you’ve got a small budget, and a need to grow, you take what you can get! December was crazy. We had Christmas, and then moved all within a week. It felt like a whirlwind. 

Cute right?

January 2021

​     We spent much of January settling into our new house. The move happened so quickly that we just threw things anywhere, so I spent a lot of time going thru boxes and finding things. Also, unbelievably, Goomba officially became a teen!

February

     Our surprise finally arrived! Little Peanut showed up about three weeks early due to a medical condition, but perfectly healthy. Due to Covid, I was in the hospital alone. Not an experience I’d ever repeat. Mentally it was tough, being so far away from the kids, and not being allowed any visitors. But we made it work. 

March

     Now we are here in March. Peanut is settling in nicely. Gummy Bear and Goomba adore her. The weather is finally starting to warm up enough to get some projects done, woo!