Simply Living & Risen Acres

So the farmhouse is coming along nicely! Just as we dreamed it would be......but every time we drive over to see the progress, the work always exceeds our expectations. We will be moved in by this November 2022. I just can't wait to move in. While we were driving the other day over to the farmhouse I was thinking about how much I have learned about myself and what changes have been made to my family's lives. The house we lived in for 12 years and sold to get our farmhouse built, had a small kitchen. My mom lives with us since her divorce. She does work the night shift and I would not let mom cook a meal or help me clean the kitchen. I have not had a kitchen in almost two years. I have not been able to cook what I want in over two years. I have reflected on why I did not let mom cook. I was simply being a kitchen hog! When you reflect on your self make sure you are mud slinging truthful! Is there even such a thing or even a word.....kitchen hog?! The selfishness of me was what I...

  Well......were moving right along! Today was a normal day for me! Hubby went to work.....I woke up (lets just say at a decent time) and enjoyed a cup of coffee and a slice of tres leches cake for breakfast. The cake was from my mother in laws birthday.  I cooked my daughter her breakfast that she asked for and of course she decided she was not hungry. (about two hours later she tells me she is hungry). So....I want to show you Mr. Wilbur. As soon as he heard me open the rv door he came running to me and started oinking like crazy! He was muddy! He had made a mud hole from my mother in laws ac drip pipe. November can not get here fast enough! I estimate a crater size hole before its time for Wilbur to relocate. I am so sorry for Wilbur's' mud hole.....but a pig has to cool off. Right? I have not herd from my mother in law about the mud hole yet and I am not going to say ANYTHING!  We got homeschool out of the way and then my husband called at 1pm to get dressed to go see...

  Today was a great day! Why? I love the products from Pioneer Woman. I love all the colors, dishes, cups, plates, and ect. Walmart was having a huge sell and I caught that sell! It was a Pioneer Woman sell. We all know I have to save money but I wanted to buy, so then you have to catch the sells. That's just what I did.   I have to admit I was not the only women looking for Pioneer Woman. There were several others there to snag a deal! I promise I did not push anyone out of the way. I did not run down the isle like some crazy lady. What I did do was walk very fast and picked up every Pioneer Woman product I could get my hands on. After I dropped off my loot in the shopping cart I had my husband pushing, I then went back down the isle to make sure I did not forget any thing.  We walked around the store and I got some shoes for $1 and $2. We paid for our stuff and began to walk to the exit. Is it just me or can some relate to this feeling? When I catch so many sells a...

Its time to catch up with the house..........and it is coming along beautifully......not bragging just simply stating. My husband and I have sacrificed so hard, worked so hard, and looking at the goal almost coming to a close has almost become hazy.....but eye on the prize, Right?! There have been tears, fear, sweat, regrets, strains, being in survival mode,  ready to give up, the unknow becoming even more unknown, running one minute and falling the next and not wanting to get back up, and still hanging on to the Almighty (barley) and somehow carrying each other to move forward. Get up soldier, your almost there.....but not yet.    You may ask.....maybe your being a little dramatic, your just building a house right? Ya I wish it was that easy. Where does the tears and sweat come in to this building a home story? You know the story in the Bible about the children of Israel and how they wondered for forty  years? Ya I felt like a wonderer about this farmhouse. We own o...