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merry valentine's day.

2/14/2018

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Every single year, I take pictures of the girls and purchase Christmas cards in the beginning of December.

Every single year, I don't send them on time.

Like really...

Every. Single. Year.

In fact, when we moved out to the farmhouse, I literally kept three prints from the last several years' of cards and threw the rest away.  😫
I hand-delivered some of the ones from Christmas 2016, and kept the rest...in case I wanted to mail them for Christmas in July or something.

Then we were moving in July 2017, so that didn't happen.

By this time, NOT mailing them is almost a Christmas tradition!

But Christmas 2017 was going to finally be the year.

The year that I actually mailed our Christmas cards!
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And in mid-December, I mailed some!

I mailed a whole SIX cards, in fact!  

I also handed out some cards at church and even gave some to a few of our family members!

That is a definite improvement from years past.

However, come January 31st, the rest of them were still in a pile in my office...ready to be mailed out.

So I set a goal for myself to mail them by Valentine's Day.

And this morning, I am dropping them off to the post office.

I didn't order as many cards as I did in the past and didn't even get to some of the people on my Christmas card list...so I still wouldn't call it a success.

But it was an adequate effort.

Maybe 2018 will be the year that I get my Christmas card life together.

We'll see.

Merry Valentine's Day from the Farmhouse, friends.

'Tis the Season! 

❤️🎁🏡🎄❤️
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christmas countdown.

10/21/2017

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I love the holidays.

I love thinking about how I can make Thanksgiving and Christmas Christ-centered and family-centered and memorable.

In fact, I start thinking about the holiday season in the end of September.

This year is no different.  I've already started purchasing gifts for friends and family.  I am trying to be very intentional this year with my purchases.
In another way, this year IS different.

This will be our first holiday season in the farmhouse.

Finding a new place for the holiday decorations.

Hosting dinners since we have more room in this house.

A new way of purchasing gifts for the girls this year for Christmas (more on that later).  

I always like to divide up my holiday planning and kind of challenge myself to complete certain aspects of it each week...and I thought it might be fun for my online friends to join me.

If you'd like to join me, just join my Facebook group here.

We'll be starting some weekly & daily challenges on Sunday, October 22nd!

​See you there!  ❤️🏡❤️
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partly ready for fall.

9/4/2017

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Labor Day Weekend marks the unofficial beginning of my very favorite season.

For the last few years, it has become a tradition to put out all my fall decorations on Labor Day.

This year was no different.

Wait, yes it was.  

This year was very different.

This year, I spent Labor Day getting the last of the "back to school madness" organized and ready for the bulk of the school year that is upon us.

This year, I was planning to have time to search the garage to find the fall decorations.

And I didn't have time.

So when I went to Dollar General to grab a foil pan for Matthew to put the brisket in that he was making for supper tonight, I spent $10 and bought a few fall items.
I bought a cutesy little owl, a "be thankful" pumpkin, and a bag of pumpkins & pinecones.

This, coupled with an adorable hand-soap dispenser one of my students' sent home with me the other night, is the extent of the fall decorations I got put out today.

And you know what?  That's okay.

I know I'll have to find a new place for all of my decorations anyway, so it might take a little while over the next few weekends.
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I spent yesterday afternoon cleaning house to prepare for the decorating process, but didn't get finished.

Sunday evening, I changed all the Scentsy in my house to fall scents and this morning, I lit my fall candles.  

I drank my coffee in the quiet this morning and prepared for a long day of transforming the farmhouse to a peaceful fall sanctuary.

Mr. Farmhouse was off work too, so he started smoking a brisket early this morning and he and my brother got to work bringing some more of our outside belongings from the old house.

​By 11:30, I realized that all of the fall decorations might not be coming out today.

I had made a huge dent in the laundry, finished up the dishes, and done a quick run-through of the rest of the downstairs.  

I hung some pictures in our bedroom and in the living room that I had been putting off and made some notes about the week coming up.
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I worked on some school plans for this week and edited a few photography sessions.

I enjoyed some more coffee about mid-afternoon.

I organized Mattie's room and contemplated hanging some of her wall art, even though we'll be redoing the sheetrock in a month or two.  

Decided against it, lol.

Now, I'm drinking coffee again and listening to Matthew & the girls play outside while I grade some papers.

This is the life.

Whether I live in a fully-decorated fall farmhouse or not.  ❤️🍂🏡🍁❤️
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