A YEAR ON LADYBUG FARM, a mini-review

Their husbands were gone, their families were grown, and the future stretched out before them like an unfulfilled promise . . .

Tired of always dreaming and never doing, Cici, Lindsay, and Bridget make a life-altering decision. Uprooting themselves from their comfortable lives in the suburbs, the three friends buy a run-down mansion, nestled in the picturesque Shenandoah Valley. They christen their new home “Ladybug Farm,” hoping that the name will bring them luck.

As the friends take on a home i