Crystal at Homemaking on the Homestead is doing a giveaway for some Shaklee cleaning supplies.  Just in time for spring cleaning (even if spring in not coming this year we all need to do that cleaning!)  Just go to her  blog here:  http://homesteadinghomemaker.blogspot.com/2011/04/first-ever-blog-giveaway.html  and follow the easy directions and you too can have a chance at this great prize!

Happy Easter!  He Is Risen!

I have been able to spend a little extra time spinning this week and have three new skeins done.  I will be doing a local craft show in May, so I am trying to build up my stock!  The younger kids and I took a trip to Hickory Lane Farm to visit Kathy and to pick up one of her last English Angoras before she gets out of the bunny business!  She has been doing it a long time and has some beautiful angoras.  We have three that we purchased from her about four years ago.  In an outdoor angora life, that's pretty good!  We picked out a black one and youngest named her Kairi.  She is sweet and sitting in daughters lap in our living room as I type, she is going to get spoiled fast!  The baby bunny liter is doing well and growing fast.  We did lose three of the nine, but the six remaining are beautiful.  I was able to leave mama in with them (she is one of my best mama's) and they are FAT!  She is taking really good care of them. It l...

I have mentioned a couple of times here that Hubby is a host for the Blog Talk radio program Christian Devotions Speak Up!  With homeschooling near and dear to our hearts, he was able to interview Mike and Kim Winter last night on his show.  They are the couple responsible for putting together the Michigan INCH Homeschooling conference coming up May 20-21 here in Lansing.  The Christian Devotions team will be at this years conference, teaching and training writing skills to homeschooling families.  Also at the conference this year will be the keynote speaker Dr. Voddie Baucham, who is AWESOME and Eric and Leslie Ludy, who I was recently introduced to.  Just these three speakers alone are worth the price of admission!    You can check out Speak Up! on the media player on my sidebar here.  Mike and Kim were on last night, the Ludy's were on last week, and Voddie was on his show last February.  All of the Christian Devotion radio shows are arc...

I was outside this morning at 6 am doing animal chores.  We had green grass and birds singing.  An hour later this is what we have: SERIOUSLY?  The weather report said "Slight snow showers NO accumulation." Seriously? 

Well the goat barn and pasture is up, fenced and being used!  It is so nice to have it all done.  It was snowing here again today.  I am really looking forward to some warmer weather but it doesn't look like it is too quick in coming.  The baby bunnies are doing great and growing fast.  I have been able to do some spinning today.   It seems like it has been ages since sitting down to do that.  This next week will be spent packing up our kitchen and dining rooms.  The cupboards which were supposed to take up to 4 weeks to get here, end up coming in about 2 !!!  Which is great and we get the project started sooner.  The builder isn't going to start tearing out until everything has a delivery date, so that we won't be misplaced as long.  This is the biggest house project we have ever done in our 19+ years of marriage...things will be interesting! Girls and I on a walk down to the neighbors  Youngest helping with the gates ...

Well Hubby and I have given the final thumbs up for the start of our kitchen/dining room remodel!  Hopefully in about 6 weeks a huge part of our house will be brand new!  We watched the movie Money Pit a couple of weeks ago, just to get us in the mood:))  We live in an older farm house that has been "pieced" together over the years, a porch here, a bedroom there.  The biggest addition was done about 20 years ago when the owners added a family room and a new upstairs with more bedrooms. The deeper we got into our remodel, the more we found out we would need to update some of the electrical, which added some unexpected money to the final bill.  We are ok with this (now) because we are planning on being here for awhile.  We are still curious how much others "things" are going to come into play as they start knocking down walls and pulling up floors.  One of the jokes around here is that one day they are going to find me in the basement doing d...