We moved into our current home on November 27, 2020 after a whirlwind several months of house hunting during a hot housing market. We were very fortunate to find the house we did at the price we did, which was largely thanks to us stumbling across a For Sale By Owner listing that happened to …
October came as somewhat of a surprise since our first freeze came weeks and weeks later than expected…in fact, I sold my last bouquet of the season on October 18! Because our growing season lasted so much longer than last year, it meant that all of our autumn tasks were put off until that hit, …
Even though I know from years and years of experience that time speeds up crazy fast once a new school year starts and zooms through until Christmas, I’m still taken aback by it anew every fall. September was such a blur, largely because we were doing a ton of fun family stuff like weekly hikes …
Phew. That’s how I think I’m going to feel after every August that we do the flower farm. August was nuts. And of course, because I sometimes have a hard time pacing myself, I also decided that it was a great time to take on massive amounts of decluttering and simplifying in the house, which, …
At the beginning of 2018, I decided to vastly change how I approached goal-setting, and instead of setting my usual New Year’s resolutions, I decided to hop on the bandwagon of doing 101 goals in 1001 days (which is just under 3 years). After completing over 60% of my first list (you can see the …
July ran the gamut of emotions just about as much as it could have. We started the month off with the incredible high of being on our long-awaited family vacation in Hawaii, and we came home to do an ultrasound for my pregnancy that showed that everything sounded perfect. Although I felt sick with the …
Yep, we’re a third of the way through July and I’m just getting around to posting my July goals and June recap. We’ve been intensely busy over here! At the end of June, our whole family flew to Hawaii to stay for a week thanks to my in-laws, who rented a house and took turns …
Time flies when you’re racing against the sun to get everything planted out! We weren’t able to start planting out the warm-weather crops of the flower farm until the very, very end of the month since we had several late frosts right in a row. Once the 10-day forecast showed we were the in the …
