Simply Living & Risen Acres

  Just been feeling lately like the word existing is what life has been. Have you been so completely drained and you take naps and sleep all night and still wake up exhausted? That's me! I need to start taking vitamins to see if that helps and if that does not work then I need to make an appointment with my doctor soon! How are people going like energizer bunnies at 40? I race against time to get stuff done before my exhaustion starts to set in and literally take over me and of course I succumb to it. I loath it, whatever it is! I work in a small city and sometimes I wonder if the city just sucks the life out of me because as soon as the clock strikes 5pm I am running, like Cinderella when the clock strikes twelve, to my car and I am racing to get back home....to the country. I stumble into the door of my farmhouse and can feel my body yell...we're back home in the peaceful country! Who knows but that could be it....the effects of country living! I hate leaving the country! I a...

 HELLO YALL!  We are in the middle of February already! How is life going for everyone? Mine...working and cooking. Cooking and working! This weekend my hubby and I cleaned the Farmhouse and mopped everything. Of course we muttered to each other how dirty things really are and we could not believe our eyes, even though we clean during the week....more like spot cleaning. We both work full-time jobs, so no one is a stay at home anything! So! No one is to blame but we help each other as best we can. Everyone pulls their weight to help with the house chores. Of course house chores are never ending. Cleaning is just a part of life. There is no way around it.  On Saturday our reset starts for the new weekday begins with cooking dinner with plenty of left overs and making my hubbys sweet bread for his coffee to take in the mornings. Trying to always think ahead, so when I get off work, I do not have to waste so much time preparing dinner during the weekday. I try to spend as mu...

  Both ovens are on and the whole house is filled with the aroma of something being baked! When my husband and I first moved into the farmhouse I had to restock all my spices to be able to bake whatever my heart desired. When we were designing the farmhouse I told my husband since we were moving to the country I needed a big kitchen. We came up with designing a baking kitchen and a cooking kitchen. How dirty baking or cooking can become and having all the ingredients everywhere....I needed space. There also needed to be enough counter space to allow the baked goods to cool off....so hence the baking kitchen and the cooking kitchen. This weekend I have hopes and dreams of trying my hand at some homemade oatmeal raisin cookies. Fingers crossed the recipe I am trying is a tried and true recipe. If they turn out wonderful then I will be sure to share the recipie on my next blog. We are trying our best to not buy store bought baked goods. I want the freshest baked goods for my little fa...

  It seems so weird we have went thru all the Holidays already!  I feel like I can not keep up! Can you keep up? It is January 13th and I still have my Christmas decorations up. I know! Why are they still up? I have no idea....ok....well...I was sick last week and I just relaxed with my little family at the farmhouse this weekend. I walked around my lanai and watered my plants. There was time for me to be able to prune some plants and just look over all of my plants growing and talk over them letting them know  how proud I was of them. I had a cactus outside my lanai and decided to bring the cactus inside my lanai. I do not know why I did not think of moving the cactus in before because it looks amazing in my lanai. You can see the pot the cactus is in and needs to be changed to a bigger and better pot. I will make it my mission to change it to a bigger pot this coming weekend, Lord willing. I don't know about you but I love the statement the cactus makes. I told my husba...