Hopes
What are your hopes and dreams? We are sharing some of ours with you! I have learned to love having a garden. It can cause some crazy overwhelming days when it seems that everything is ready at the same time. I also love that it brings our family together. We have also started to find friends who also enjoy providing for their families by gardening and canning. It’s a great shared experience.
We have also enjoyed remodeling our home and making it our dream home. It has been several years in the making and we still have several years of work ahead of us. I would not change the joy of seeing our house become a home. I love watching our kids making memories that they will forever have in their hearts.
God has blessed our family with the hope of seeing new possibilities out of old things. Our home was built in the 80’s and we have started fresh and added on to meet our needs. God has provided opportunities for us to build a community around us that will support what we love.
Gardening – Dreaming Big
Summer is in FULL swing here. Summer is a major time for building our dream life together.
We have a huge garden again for the second year in a row. What’s in it you ask???
**Potatoes, Potatoes, and more Potatoes – One thing we have a lot of is potatoes. It is a staple in our household and we can make them last almost all year long! We also give them away to friends/family or trade for other things.
**Watermelon – Our kids love the watermelon, and think it’s pretty cool we are growing our own.
**Pumpkins – We’re already thinking about Fall around here! At least pumpkins, the kids can’t wait to see how many we get.
**Green beans – They have been a struggle between rabbits and woodchucks (groundhogs). They also love our green beans as much as us.
**Carrots – We shall see how they turn out this year, we don’t always have success with them.
**Radish – I’m not a fan of radishes but my husband enjoys them so these are all him!
**Cucumbers – Our plants are not looking so good at this moment, but we have enjoyed what we have gotten this far.
**Tomatoes – Thus far they are all green still but they are coming on strong.
Getting Ready for Winter
Seasons Matter
Summer is a time to grow and gather as much garden produce as we possibly can. It also means cutting firewood. This seems silly when it’s 100 degrees outside.
Spring is a time to start working on outside projects and getting the garden ready. It seems as though all inside projects come to a standstill once the weather starts to get nice.
Winter is something that I’m always thinking about in the back of my mind. We are growing food in the garden to eat all winter long. Cutting firewood and stacking in preparation for the cold.
Fall is the wrapping up of the growing season and starting back up with the inside projects as the weather is getting colder.
It’s all about living our dream life and completing projects that we both enjoy doing and also enjoy with they are complete.
Dreaming of Flowers
Summer means flowers and updating our landscaping. Each year we work on adding more around our home creating a place of peace and beauty. Each Mother’s Day weekend we spend part of the day shopping for flowers and part of the day planting what we have bought for that year. It is one of my favorite traditions we do.
I love looking at all that is out and trying to make a decision on what to get each year. We have some that we always get each year and others that we try new.
My husband loves to pick out flowers as much as I do so it really is a fun shopping day for the both of us. He actually knows more about plants than I do so I’ve been learning from him over the years. He used to bring me pictures or send my pictures of pictures all the time when we were dating. It was the start of creating our Dream Life.
Faith
God chose each of us to be here during a certain time in this world. He has great plans for people if we will just listen to them. Listening to that inner voice that encourages you to make the right choice. God wants us to live our lives to best serve him. I know this can be hard to do and I struggle with knowing what is best and making sure I’m really thinking things through. I want to be more intentional with my life and hope that my intentions pass on to my children. I want them to love God and share his love with others through their actions and words.
Please find hope and encouragement when reading my posts, this is a judgment free zone. Consider sharing with your family and friends and helping me share things I enjoy.