Happy Easter!

Easter Day dawned with parasols, japanese tea, peach preserves, mass, and an Easter egg hunt.
We enjoyed Uncle John's visit, and watched the lambs cavort across the lawn...

Bothilde pointed out the blooming dogwood trees with heart winging intensity:

" Look Mama! The buds are LELLOW! the buds are LELLOW!"

Papa's Girl

Someone skipped her nap today to help Papa shell corn for the chickens and seed lettuce in the greenhouse. The quietest moments on the farm are often the sweetest.

Pea Princesses

After reading the Princess and the Pea to Una at naptime...I asked:

"Una, are you a real princess??"

she replied

"No. Look at my legs"

and then she drew her dimpled little stumps out from under the bedclothes...

"Not yet" she said.

I nearly died laughing.

The last of the snow if melted...these days are spent running in and out of the steaming greenhouse..visiting the sheep and goats...making french bread (and assembling sandwhiches with the last of our broiler chicken). We are soaking up the cosy days, getting ready for the running about pell mell with "Zippidy Doo" in our hearts over the Spring weather.

Little Apprentices

The benefits of living next-door to 5 boys...the girls now want to have a hand in all the "man work"!

bending steel rods for the greenhouse

Old Life...New Life

Our favorite "Adult-Friendly" activity during moving days...child burritos. "Look Ma! I can't move my hands!"

We said goodbye to the mural we painted on the girls' wall.

2 days after moving into our new home our dear friend Nathan tore down part of the kitchen wall to reveal a chimney...and promptly installed a woodstove..."To make it hard for you to ever move again!"

It's working!

I am not sure how we lived without one.

Between marshmellow roastings, and

late night conversations...happiness in Winter depends on a crackling fire.