I'm not entirely sure where to begin. I, obviously took a leave from blogging and I will share the many reasons why. When I last posted(I believe in 2012) our son, who had been out of contact with us for a little over 2 yrs. came back into our lives through many blessings straight from God. We had met our granddaughter only twice before seeing her again when she was 3 yrs. old. She is the joy and light in all of our lives and now she is going to be 6yrs old in March, my how time flies.

Other reasons for my stop in blogging was time. I'm not as young as I once was and I was having issues with not being able to multi task like I once did. This was causing stress in my family life, our homesteading life, my marriage and my spiritual life as well. So I can honestly say, I don't like change and had to work through all of these changes in my own way, which ment more time focusing at the tasks at hand and less time on the computer. I have now learned the ins and outs of what I can and can not do and have moved forward in a positive manner with the strength and guidance of God.  I now know my limits and will work to include some of my time blogging as a way to share, learn and grow with others who seek the same in their lives. I am of the belief that we should never stop learning until we die. So...... in the years away I've learned and challenged myself to learn many new things. I've learned to be a Grandmother, a mother to two young adult children, was blessed with a beautiful daughter in law and two, instant and beautiful granddaughters,

I am now an EMT on our volunteer ambulance service( coming on 3 yrs.), learning to knit, finished my first large quilting project and a few small and fun ones too, learning to sew on my treadle sewing machine, getting back into doing things I enjoyed but put on hold to raise our children and homeschool and my newest skill is from the sheep to yarn. I've always wanted to learn to spin and our daughter has the sheep and we have bags of fleeces that we've been shuffling around and around, so I bit the fleece( so to speak) and decided we needed to learn how to do something with them or sell the sheep. I started out in Sept. 2015 with a drop spindle and some washed and dyed wool. First I had to borrow a set of carders and learn how to card the wool, then I worked hard to learn how to spin the wool roving on the drop spindle I was loaned as well. At the next spinners guild meeting everyone was so positive of how well I'd spun the wool, they said I needed a spinning wheel to get going into some major production. So my husband and daughter got in touch with a friend in the guild and she told them of a wheel for sale and they made arrangements to buy it. Of course I had now idea, so I set out to find a deal on a beginner's wheel and that is when husband and daughter had to spill the beans about my Christmas gift. I ended up getting this gift early so I could take some classes. It's a beautiful wheel; a Kromski Sonata and it is designed for easy traveling. I am truly enjoying spinning and soon will learn to ply. Husband built me a lazy kate, so all I need to do is fill another bobbin.

 

Now there are many other things that have happened and happening in my life and the life of my family and farm and I hope to share those with you at some point in time.  I'm just glad to be at a point in life when I can spare some time to include blogging once again. For all those who are still hanging in there and all the new people who've stopped in over the last few years, I'd like to say Thank you and looking forward I pray we can all become friends.
I will work to post at least once a week, some may just be picture blogs of our farm, family and animals just to catch you all up to speed. Until we meet again have a blessed and productive weekend.