Eeek

Am I the only one who feels like I blink and another week has passed? I keep telling myself “things will slow down when [fill in the blank]” but it hasn’t happened yet. And still, I never seem to accomplish anything. I think such is the nature of living on a farm, writing, and raising boys. There is always something else that needs done.

Somehow in all of this craziness, I’ve got to find the time to read my niece’s first novel. She’s 15. Seriously, I couldn’t be prouder of her. What I’ve read so far is really good, so life needs to pause long enough for me to finish!

My boys and I are all struggling with being back on the school schedule. Just keeping up with school, homework and one child’s extracurricular activity makes it darn near impossible to keep up with family time and things like our daily Bible study. I miss my kids. I miss sleep. I have no clue how other moms do it!

That said, I am taking a couple hours tonight for me. There’s a Pinterest party at my church, which gives me an excuse to make some of the recipes I’ve been saving for the past year. I’m getting pretty excited about that. Actually, embarrassingly so, but they look sooo yummy. Now my stomach is growling just thinking about it.

Don’t forget that over the next month, there will be more stops on the Goddess Fish blog tour. It seems to be the tour for telling secrets, so you definitely want to tune in!

Last, my boys (the younger two) had been harassing me for a while, asking if they could have a dog that was a pet. (We have four big guard dogs that protect the farm.) I told them we had enough dogs. Then my pastor’s daughter happened to have a litter of beagle mix pups. (Well, her dog did anyway.)

Somehow, I wound up with not one but two of them. Sigh.

Okay, who am I kidding? I’m as crazy about them as the boys are. Meet Blue and Katie. They follow me like shadows all around the farm and keep me company when the boys are gone.