trucks

dont ever buy a truck without thinkin twice!!! This has been the week I would call Truck Sage..thi story is much too long....too awful to wast time telling again...nothing matter in the end except that....Live and learn..and as I write this I am waiting for our new to us truck to be ready and the family to hit the road on a much needed Summer Road trip to the wild wild Midest!!!!!!

Adios

5 years and 2 days later!!

with a blink of an eye Cedar Ojassa Eamonn has yet again been with us one more yr. From our first baby love to our first 5 yr old!!!! We have been counting down to 5 for months. How ironic that when you are this young birthday just never come fast enough, and well we the adults know all about the opposite. Wishing time would slow down.

Cedar,

You are 5. This has been the age you have been dreaming about for months! I don't think it is the age but the awareness that with birthdays come celebrations!! We celebrated from dawn until dusk on the 20th. Your friends came up, hit the pinata, feasted, chased goats, had sword fights and played, played, played!!!!!

Cedar you are ever changing and growing up. Our conversations have become deep...at times I am shocked by your ever thinking world!! But always Magical!!! From the biggest question of "who or what was the first animal here, and how did it get here?" to the more random daily wondering about fruit growing, tool working, fairy wondering questions. You LOVE to be outside. You can find something to do in the woods for hours!! You dream of building, are always ready to help daddy with chores, and have built a tepee and cabin in the last month!! You spend 2 to 3 times a week wandering in the woods with your friend Emmett, and are always excited to be there. You have also begun to ride your bike without training wheels..well actually for the last half of the yr you have been cruising around the lake walk and all over the mountain. You danced for your second yr and love every minute of it!! Your favorite move is when you have your hands on you hips and are moving from side to side!!! You danced both tap and ballet for the recital. You also are now playing T-ball and every time we go you tell us how much you LOVE it We got a big thumbs up the first time you caught the ball...

In so many ways you are the same sweet, high energy, persistent, strong willed boy. And I continue to try to find ways of honoring your strong will and energy!!!! when you really believe what you want you will go the extra mile to get it and I believe this will do you well as you age!! I don't see you as someone who ever gives up...You have started your first yr of homeschooling with the Enki curriculum and you are always to excited to do it. You really enjoy the circle adventures, love to be animals and fairy, and enjoy all of the folk and fairy tales! You are finger crocheting, painting, working with wax, and baking weekly.

Cedar you are a hoot to be with! Things you love: cuddling in the morning, taking hours to go to bed (night owl), love the sunshine, diggers, bugs, building, destroying, hiding piles of toys behind your bed, pictures taken of you, books, fairy's, pirates, swords, animals, being mischievous, being with your family....

we love you and cant wait for the Big 5 to come alive!!!!!!!!!

the facts of life

So it has become obvious to me that I am not in control, nor was I, or will I be able to control Mother Nature! You could say we, the Eamonns, have started a hobby farm! It has been fun, but with everything new comes the reality of the good, bad, and ugly! About a year ago we were getting our first egg from our chickens! and then we began to dream. We have land, we love animals, we want a place our kiddos are filled up with nurturing, growth, love, chores, and change. And so we added goats..lots more chickens and now a 900 sq ft space for gardening. And in the last couple monthes we have been tested. We have had goats chased by dogs, goats attacked by a dog, chickens getting out and eaten by dogs...and the garden fighting the weather, lack of sun and warm temperatures and goats who find snacks out of starter plants. So I surrender. Surrender to any expectation I might have had about eating lush bright red tomatoes, crunchy cucumbers, spicy peppers..my mouth is drooling..and all this helps me to be able to have a glimpse into so many peoples lives. To have investes every last penny on a gamble of what kind of crop will produce throught the season. I am impressed that people for lifetimes have dedicated there entire life to crops. And damn I get it, get CSA's, I get the pain, and to no level can I say I understand what it must feel like to have an entire crop flushed away by snow, heavy rain,lack there of rain, and hail. To loose it all and have to hope for another yr to play catch up on credit So to all the True Farmers...I cross my fingers that this season brings more them can be eaten in one season. I cross my fingers my kids can pick one strawberry and taste the sweetness in a job well done of weeding, watering, waiting patiently for mother nature to so her part..what that may be this summer of 09'