Sorry for the late post...
My babies have always been good sleepers. Nalley slept through the night by 6 weeks and Felicity one uped her by doing it at 4 weeks.
Last night was a different story. While Felicity slept until 6AM before needing to eat, Nalley was awake and screaming at 3:30. After changing her diaper and her clothes (always fun especially at 3:30AM), I let her stay in bed with me for a little cuddle time. She fell asleep rather quickly. Heck, if I had just evacutaed my bowels like she had, I would sleep pretty well too! I, on the other hand, laid awake worrying about her "interesting" diapers over the last few days, worrying about her catching the flu bug that is going around for at least the second time this winter and noticing a cough that seemed to begin over night.
Before I was able to fall asleep, my mind started thinking about all the stories Leron used to tell me about getting up to help milk the cows at 4AM. They would call it night morning. It truly is darkest before the dawn.
So today, my farmer's wife blessing is the beauty, calmness and serenity of 4AM. Without a 4AM wakeup call last night, I wouldn't have had cuddle time with Nalley. Without 4AM milkings Leron would not be as hardworking as he is. I don't want to see 4AM everyday (I had 2 cups of coffee today and can barely keep my eyes open at 9PM), but once in a while, it is a wonderful, beautiful, calming blessing.
Lenten Daily Challenge: As an extra Lenten offering, give up something you enjoy just for today (I guess mine was sleep)
Rosary Special Intention: Beautiful Thomas Bohm born yesterday a healthy 8 lbs 5 oz and 22.5 inches and his loving parents and older brother
God Bless!
Hannah
The Farmer's Wife
Wednesday, February 29, 2012
Tuesday, February 28, 2012
Life
I am surrounded by life everyday. I see the sun come up every morning and set every evening. I see trees bloom in the sping and lose their leaves in the fall. With this endless life circle around every day, it would be very easy to take life for granted. I don't.
I rejoice when a new life is created. I mourn when a life is lost. I get happy when a life in Christ is begun and cry when someone i love turns away from that path.
In the past three days, I have been on a roller coaster ride of emotions about life. Mourning a life taken too soon (21 years old), confused at a life hardly begun (a friend's miscarriage at 8 weeks), rejoicing at news of good health in a friend's pregnancy and hopeful for a new life joining this world sometime today (come on Thomas Bohm your mommy doesn't want a leap year baby!).
I wish I could say being a farmer's wife made the circle of life easier to understand by putting it in perspective. Afterall, we care for animals every day that in the end are used for our food and we need the plants in the field to die in order to harvest them. However, it is harder because I have put life in perspective. Life is the most precious gift given by God. More than that, it is a gifting process we, as humans, are asked to participate in. With this precious gift comes great responsibility, to be Christ to one another.
As a society, we are failing. We have become a culture of death instead of a culture of life. Babies are seen as accessories, only to be "worn" when socially appropriate and as disposable as last year's fashion. We need to be Christ to one another and that includes those among us who do not have a voice, those who are the most vulnerable, those who want nothing more than to live.
Babies are precious gifts from God. We need to see them as the blessing that they are. Whether they are with us for 8 weeks and we never get to see their face, or are with us for 21 years and we never get to see their full potential. Every life is a gift from God to be lived for His glory.
Are you being Christ for one another? Are you promoting a culture of life?
Live your life for the One who created you.
Lenten Daily Challenge: Put a cross, crucifix or other image of Jesus in each room of your home to help keep you focused on Him.
Rosary Special Intention: My friend who suffered a miscarriage and her family
God Bless!
Hannah
The Farmer's Wife
I rejoice when a new life is created. I mourn when a life is lost. I get happy when a life in Christ is begun and cry when someone i love turns away from that path.
In the past three days, I have been on a roller coaster ride of emotions about life. Mourning a life taken too soon (21 years old), confused at a life hardly begun (a friend's miscarriage at 8 weeks), rejoicing at news of good health in a friend's pregnancy and hopeful for a new life joining this world sometime today (come on Thomas Bohm your mommy doesn't want a leap year baby!).
I wish I could say being a farmer's wife made the circle of life easier to understand by putting it in perspective. Afterall, we care for animals every day that in the end are used for our food and we need the plants in the field to die in order to harvest them. However, it is harder because I have put life in perspective. Life is the most precious gift given by God. More than that, it is a gifting process we, as humans, are asked to participate in. With this precious gift comes great responsibility, to be Christ to one another.
As a society, we are failing. We have become a culture of death instead of a culture of life. Babies are seen as accessories, only to be "worn" when socially appropriate and as disposable as last year's fashion. We need to be Christ to one another and that includes those among us who do not have a voice, those who are the most vulnerable, those who want nothing more than to live.
Babies are precious gifts from God. We need to see them as the blessing that they are. Whether they are with us for 8 weeks and we never get to see their face, or are with us for 21 years and we never get to see their full potential. Every life is a gift from God to be lived for His glory.
Are you being Christ for one another? Are you promoting a culture of life?
Live your life for the One who created you.
Lenten Daily Challenge: Put a cross, crucifix or other image of Jesus in each room of your home to help keep you focused on Him.
Rosary Special Intention: My friend who suffered a miscarriage and her family
God Bless!
Hannah
The Farmer's Wife
Monday, February 27, 2012
Rust
I am a product of my generation and upbringing. Growing up in an affluent suburb of Indianapolis, it was not unusual to see classmates receive a brand new car on their 16th birthday. Today, more than ever before, technology has brought advertisers and consumers together. The message is a constant barrage of "life changing" products, "mind blowing" gadgets and "cannot live without it" items. With this onslaught, it can be hard to remember that stuff cannot bring true happiness.
Leron has always seemed to be able to rise above this consumer mentality favoring anything, everything and any one old. Not knowing him in high school, I have beard many stories about how he drove the girls wild and was voted best dressed thanks in large part to hand me down clothes his father wore in the 70s. Then in college there was this pair of jeans he wore, to hear him tell the story the girls nearly fell down they were so weak in the knees. I wouldn't believe this story until it was told unprompted by no less than five girls.
This vintage love goes beyond clothes. A tractor with a little rust is "a stud" and a little old woman, no younger than 75, is Leron's perfect woman. I understood the little old woman affinity right away. Those women are awesome and true ladies. It took me a little longer to understand the tractors still believing newer equals better technology, more efficient etc.
A rusty tractor is a stud for two reasons. 1) It has been used and used and used and is still doing its job and 2) You have to have some skill as a real farmer to get the older equipment to produce a decent crop.
So rust is my small farming blessing for today. I hope that I get used and used and used by God and I keep going strong because I know God has the skill necessary to be a "farmer" of my gifts and talents.
Lenten Daily Challenge: Raise the level of your prayer today and really think about eh meaning of the words you are saying
Rosary Special Intention: For my sister Laura
God Bless!
Hannah
The Farmer's Wife
PS- As a follow up to the daily challenge in my post Saturday, I have selected Saint Philomena to learn about and imitate. Saint Philomena, pray for us!
Leron has always seemed to be able to rise above this consumer mentality favoring anything, everything and any one old. Not knowing him in high school, I have beard many stories about how he drove the girls wild and was voted best dressed thanks in large part to hand me down clothes his father wore in the 70s. Then in college there was this pair of jeans he wore, to hear him tell the story the girls nearly fell down they were so weak in the knees. I wouldn't believe this story until it was told unprompted by no less than five girls.
This vintage love goes beyond clothes. A tractor with a little rust is "a stud" and a little old woman, no younger than 75, is Leron's perfect woman. I understood the little old woman affinity right away. Those women are awesome and true ladies. It took me a little longer to understand the tractors still believing newer equals better technology, more efficient etc.
A rusty tractor is a stud for two reasons. 1) It has been used and used and used and is still doing its job and 2) You have to have some skill as a real farmer to get the older equipment to produce a decent crop.
So rust is my small farming blessing for today. I hope that I get used and used and used by God and I keep going strong because I know God has the skill necessary to be a "farmer" of my gifts and talents.
Lenten Daily Challenge: Raise the level of your prayer today and really think about eh meaning of the words you are saying
Rosary Special Intention: For my sister Laura
God Bless!
Hannah
The Farmer's Wife
PS- As a follow up to the daily challenge in my post Saturday, I have selected Saint Philomena to learn about and imitate. Saint Philomena, pray for us!
Sunday, February 26, 2012
Sunday Funday Family
It is Sunday and Sunday is a day for FAMILY!! Not exactly a blessing I received directly because of Leron and his farming but definitely one that was reaffirmed. No matter how busy or how perfect the weather was, he always scales way back on Sunday and spends time with family.
So today, spend some time with those closest to you. Call a sibling, visit with your parents, have a big family meal at your house (don't forget to say grace!), anything to get your family together.
So today, spend some time with those closest to you. Call a sibling, visit with your parents, have a big family meal at your house (don't forget to say grace!), anything to get your family together.
It is only 10AM and we have already had a friendly game of Wii baseball... Nalley won! Ok she didn't really win but she knows which button to push to turn off the Wii, maybe she is just a sore loser?? The weather is beautiful so this afternoon we will probably take a walk, pray a rosary together and just hang out and marvel at God's work in our lives.
I hope you can see all your blessings as those you love gather with you.
(the most important people in my life!)
Lenten Daily Challenge: After Mass, decide what you need to change in your life in order to truly experience Jesus' love during Lent
Rosary Special Intention: For my family and families everywhere
God Bless!
Hannah
The Farmer's Wife
Saturday, February 25, 2012
Silence
Growing up as one of eight children didn't allow for a lot of silence. Living on my own after college, silence terrified me and made me feel very alone. Sundays were always the worst. I would go to church and then come back to my apartment alone. I longed for the big breakfast with the family followed by cleaning the house while my dad blared Handel's Messiah and when the weather was good we would all be outside helping rake leaves, pull weeds or just playing in the yard. It is pretty intimidating to be alone feeling like the silence is engulfing you.
I rediscovered the blessing of silence after getting married. Maybe it was because I was no longer alone but silence always seemed deeper more meaningful, useful even. It was wonderful and is wonderful to be so very connected to another human being that no words are necessary to convey your emotions, thoughts, desires and feelings.
One of my favorite things to do is lay out under the stars and remind myself just how small and insignificant I am. In the silence of a warm summer night, you can hear life stirring around you and I become extremely grateful that God loved me enough to give me life and let me live it. There is a song I have been listening to a lot recently, In Me by Casting Crowns. The line "how refreshing to know you don't need me how amazing to find that you want me" is something I could think about endlessly and still not be able to wrap my head around.
God is amazing and awesome. Take some time in silence today to thank Him for the blessings in your life and to ask Him what he wants from you "cause i'll never get by living on my own ability"
Casting Crowns In Me on YouTube
Lenten Daily Challenge: Pick a Saint to learn about and imitat. Ask for his or her special help and protection during Lent.
Rosary Special Intention: To save one sinner's soul from hell
God Bless!
Hannah
The Farmer's Wife
I rediscovered the blessing of silence after getting married. Maybe it was because I was no longer alone but silence always seemed deeper more meaningful, useful even. It was wonderful and is wonderful to be so very connected to another human being that no words are necessary to convey your emotions, thoughts, desires and feelings.
One of my favorite things to do is lay out under the stars and remind myself just how small and insignificant I am. In the silence of a warm summer night, you can hear life stirring around you and I become extremely grateful that God loved me enough to give me life and let me live it. There is a song I have been listening to a lot recently, In Me by Casting Crowns. The line "how refreshing to know you don't need me how amazing to find that you want me" is something I could think about endlessly and still not be able to wrap my head around.
God is amazing and awesome. Take some time in silence today to thank Him for the blessings in your life and to ask Him what he wants from you "cause i'll never get by living on my own ability"
Casting Crowns In Me on YouTube
Lenten Daily Challenge: Pick a Saint to learn about and imitat. Ask for his or her special help and protection during Lent.
Rosary Special Intention: To save one sinner's soul from hell
God Bless!
Hannah
The Farmer's Wife
Friday, February 24, 2012
Dreams and Insanity
Small farmers have big dreams. I have always been somewhat of a realist. I never really dreamed of graduating from high school, going to college and getting my first "real" job because I knew if I worked hard enough, God had already given me the gifts and talents I needed to achieve these milestones. I did dream about having a family, but again I knew that in His time, God would provide a man worthy of being my husband and with God's grace we would have children.
When I met Leron, he was so full of big ideas and dreams of what he wanted his future to look like. The first time he took me to his parents farm he pointed across one of the fields and said, "there." Noticing I was slightly confused he began explaining that for as long as he could remember he wanted to build a house right there. With visions of Everybody Loves Raymond popping into my head, I thought yeah right no woman in her right mind would build a house right across the street from her in-laws.
Being a farmer's wife has defnitely helped me recognize the importance of dreaming, whether the dreams be big or small. Dreams help us get through the tough times when we aren't sure if the crops are going to yield enough bushels to provide for next year or when it hasn't rained in a month.
In the few short years we have been together, Leron and I have been tackling our dream list. We have started our own herd of Shorthorn Cattle. We have started our own business. We have started our family. We bought our first piece of land and have big plans to fill it with fruit and vegetable gardens, an orchard and maybe some laying hens for eggs.
Dreaming is a lot more fun with someone by your side who is sharing in those same dreams and is there to hug you when they don't pan out and rejoice with you when they do.
As for insanity, the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. I am pretty sure this could be the definition of farming too! Each year we plant a crop and hope that it yields better than the previous year (most years it is the same), we hope that the commodity prices continue to go up to make a record profit (most years it goes down around harvest time), and we hope that the weather will rain, stay dry, get hot, stay cool, have sunshine or clouds when we think we need them (most of the time the weather is the opposite and the crops still turn out just fine!). So a small dose of insanity goes a long way in making life fun and bearable when depending on so many things that are out of your control.
This insanity has clearly rubbed off on me. That piece of land I mentioned we bought, it is right across the street from my in-laws! While we have not had any Everybody Loves Raymond episodes and I don't expect we ever will (Leron and I were both very fortunate to have the best in-laws ever!), I still think any woman would have to be at least a little insane to move across the street from her in-laws.
Lenten Daily Challenge: Abstain from eating meat today, and make your meals truly penitential
Rosary special intention: All the insane farmers starting to make preparations for spring planting
God Bless!
Hannah
The Farmer's Wife
When I met Leron, he was so full of big ideas and dreams of what he wanted his future to look like. The first time he took me to his parents farm he pointed across one of the fields and said, "there." Noticing I was slightly confused he began explaining that for as long as he could remember he wanted to build a house right there. With visions of Everybody Loves Raymond popping into my head, I thought yeah right no woman in her right mind would build a house right across the street from her in-laws.
Being a farmer's wife has defnitely helped me recognize the importance of dreaming, whether the dreams be big or small. Dreams help us get through the tough times when we aren't sure if the crops are going to yield enough bushels to provide for next year or when it hasn't rained in a month.
In the few short years we have been together, Leron and I have been tackling our dream list. We have started our own herd of Shorthorn Cattle. We have started our own business. We have started our family. We bought our first piece of land and have big plans to fill it with fruit and vegetable gardens, an orchard and maybe some laying hens for eggs.
Dreaming is a lot more fun with someone by your side who is sharing in those same dreams and is there to hug you when they don't pan out and rejoice with you when they do.
As for insanity, the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. I am pretty sure this could be the definition of farming too! Each year we plant a crop and hope that it yields better than the previous year (most years it is the same), we hope that the commodity prices continue to go up to make a record profit (most years it goes down around harvest time), and we hope that the weather will rain, stay dry, get hot, stay cool, have sunshine or clouds when we think we need them (most of the time the weather is the opposite and the crops still turn out just fine!). So a small dose of insanity goes a long way in making life fun and bearable when depending on so many things that are out of your control.
This insanity has clearly rubbed off on me. That piece of land I mentioned we bought, it is right across the street from my in-laws! While we have not had any Everybody Loves Raymond episodes and I don't expect we ever will (Leron and I were both very fortunate to have the best in-laws ever!), I still think any woman would have to be at least a little insane to move across the street from her in-laws.
Lenten Daily Challenge: Abstain from eating meat today, and make your meals truly penitential
Rosary special intention: All the insane farmers starting to make preparations for spring planting
God Bless!
Hannah
The Farmer's Wife
Thursday, February 23, 2012
Optimistic Pessimists
Why is it that the anticipation and excitement of the first day of a long journey only lasts so long?
I was so looking forward to Ash Wednesday with its fasting and focus on change that I forgot to think about Thursday.
I remember waking up the morning after my wedding in a daze half disappointed that the day had gone by so quickly that I hardly got to enjoy it. My disappointment soon went away when I realized I get to spend the rest of my life with my best friend and while it was a great time the wedding was just the introduction to the party that my married life would be.
And so life goes, we believe some event or material possession will make us feel complete on to be disappointed when it doesn't live up to our expectations.
Managing expectations is another blessing I have received being a farmer's wife. Farmers are the most optimistic pessimists according to Leron. Today may be crappy but tomorrow will surely be better. Grain prices are always going to be higher tomorrow and they always sell too soon.
When you are always counting on tomorrow to be better it is hard to be too disappointed by today.
Lenten Daily Challenge: Choose Lenten offerings of prayer, penance and almsgiving
Rosary Special Intention: All unborn babies
God Bless!
Hannah
The Farmer's Wife
I was so looking forward to Ash Wednesday with its fasting and focus on change that I forgot to think about Thursday.
I remember waking up the morning after my wedding in a daze half disappointed that the day had gone by so quickly that I hardly got to enjoy it. My disappointment soon went away when I realized I get to spend the rest of my life with my best friend and while it was a great time the wedding was just the introduction to the party that my married life would be.
And so life goes, we believe some event or material possession will make us feel complete on to be disappointed when it doesn't live up to our expectations.
Managing expectations is another blessing I have received being a farmer's wife. Farmers are the most optimistic pessimists according to Leron. Today may be crappy but tomorrow will surely be better. Grain prices are always going to be higher tomorrow and they always sell too soon.
When you are always counting on tomorrow to be better it is hard to be too disappointed by today.
Lenten Daily Challenge: Choose Lenten offerings of prayer, penance and almsgiving
Rosary Special Intention: All unborn babies
God Bless!
Hannah
The Farmer's Wife
Wednesday, February 22, 2012
Dust, Dirt and Soil
Dust, who likes dust? I am constantly cleaning up dust and dirt from my floor. It is a nuisance, a daily chore, an action that will earn no thanks and garner no reward and will inevitably be repeated tomorrow.
Dust, dirt and soil were one of the first small blessings I recognized being a farmer’s wife. What once was something I saw as a barrier to a clean house has become so much more. It is a fundamental building block to our livelihood. It is a sign my husband has been working hard. It is a sign the ground is ready for planting or harvest. It is a sign we need to pray for rain or sunshine. When there are bits of green it is a sign of fertility and new life.
"Remember that you are dust and to dust you shall return" is a simple phrase that has taken on a profound new meaning in recent years. Without preparation the dirt is just dirt. Each year we ready the soil for planting, adding fertility and nutrients so the harvest will be bountiful. Likewise, we need to ready ourselves so that when God is ready to harvest we have great gifts to give.
Turn your dirt into soil and ready yourself for the harvest.
Lenten Daily Challenge: Attend an Ash Wednesday service and wear the cross of ashes all day.
Rosary Intention: A return of moral values into our communities
God Bless!
Hannah
The Farmer's Wife
Dust, dirt and soil were one of the first small blessings I recognized being a farmer’s wife. What once was something I saw as a barrier to a clean house has become so much more. It is a fundamental building block to our livelihood. It is a sign my husband has been working hard. It is a sign the ground is ready for planting or harvest. It is a sign we need to pray for rain or sunshine. When there are bits of green it is a sign of fertility and new life.
"Remember that you are dust and to dust you shall return" is a simple phrase that has taken on a profound new meaning in recent years. Without preparation the dirt is just dirt. Each year we ready the soil for planting, adding fertility and nutrients so the harvest will be bountiful. Likewise, we need to ready ourselves so that when God is ready to harvest we have great gifts to give.
Turn your dirt into soil and ready yourself for the harvest.
Lenten Daily Challenge: Attend an Ash Wednesday service and wear the cross of ashes all day.
Rosary Intention: A return of moral values into our communities
God Bless!
Hannah
The Farmer's Wife
Monday, February 20, 2012
2 days
Two more days until Lent begins...
I am working on getting everything organized so I can start Wednesday with excitement.
As part of my Lenten journey I will be praying a daily rosary. If you have any special prayer requests you would like me to offer you can post them in the comments, message me privately on facebook, call me or email me. I would be more than happy to pray for you.
I'm so very excited about this and I hope you are excited about your upcoming Lenten journey too!
A cute picture to make you smile and think about God's blessings in your life...
God Bless!
Hannah
The Farmer's Wife
I am working on getting everything organized so I can start Wednesday with excitement.
As part of my Lenten journey I will be praying a daily rosary. If you have any special prayer requests you would like me to offer you can post them in the comments, message me privately on facebook, call me or email me. I would be more than happy to pray for you.
I'm so very excited about this and I hope you are excited about your upcoming Lenten journey too!
A cute picture to make you smile and think about God's blessings in your life...
God Bless!
Hannah
The Farmer's Wife
Tuesday, February 14, 2012
Lent
So after a week of thinking about how to effectively use this blog as both a type of therapy for me and a source of information for those who, hopefully, read it I have figured out what I am going to do with it.
Lent starts in one week. As a Catholic, Lent has always been a time of preparation that made me feel strangely bi-polar in a way. On one hand, there were sacrifices made like giving up dessert for 40 days or not eating meat on Fridays or not watching TV. On the other hand, these sacrifices allowed my relationship with God to grow deeper filling my life with more joy and happiness. As a child, Lent seemed so easy, it is no TV or no sweets (hard at the time but easy in retrospect). As I grew, I found it more difficult to decide what to abstain from. I love chocolate, but I didn't really see how eating a brownie kept me from Christ.
The last few years, Lent has not been so much about abstaining as it has been in partaking. I have chosen to attend daily mass, go to confession, pray a daily rosary and actively do things I knew would bring me closer to God. This year will be no different. I have chosen to start this blog and I will write in it once a day throughout Lent.
If that's enough to keep you interested in it and coming back daily for my message, that is great. If you want to know how I came to this decision keep reading.
I am young enough that "modern" technology has been around for my entire life. I remember when cell phones were for high powered executives or for emergency purposes only. I remember only having 4 channels on the TV. Because we lived in the middle of a corn field, cable wasn't readily available and satellite was still really expensive and not reliable. I remember signing up for my first hotmail email account in sixth grade. My older sister set it up for me and my password was flute (an instrument I had played since fourth grade). I remember instant messenger, when it was really cool and all the teenagers were on it. I remember my freshman year at college signing up for The Facebook as it was first called. It required a university email address and was a bio page about where you currently lived and what you were studying.
At one point in time, all of these modern conveniences seemed like a step forward, progress, growth and a step in the right direction. It hasn't taken too long to notice that that direction is right off a cliff without realizing where we are going because we are staring at our iPhones, constantly texting, liking a status on Facebook or in general ignoring the very real human being standing next to us.
Cell phones are now carried by anyone and everyone and have become a definition of our self worth, the newer, better, cooler the phone equates to a better, cooler human being holding it no matter how outrageous their monthly bill may be. Television is now streamed to our cell phones and laptops and wii and xbox and recorded on our dvr because apparently the message in all of these shows is too important to miss. Email has replaced real contact. Instead of lengthy handwritten letters or cards, we send two sentence emails and expect people to check them and get right back to us. Instant messenger has mostly been replaced by the ever popular text message and facebook/gmail chat, just another way to avoid real human interaction. Facebook has become a narcissist's dreamland full of usually not so humorous or relevant re-posts with the only original material being how wonderful your life is or how much your life sucks posted to either make others jealous or solicit sympathy.
With so much time, energy and thought wasted on modern technology that was supposed to make our lives better, it is a wonder anything gets done at all. So for Lent, I am giving it up. I am giving up wasting time on Facebook, texting instead of calling, watching mind numbing, immoral television shows, and emailing.
· I am going to stalk my family and friends through phone calls and letters instead of through facebook.
· I am going to make phone calls instead of avoiding real contact with a text message.
· I am going to spend my time playing with my babies, talking with my husband, reading, praying, and going to daily mass or any number of things that don't happen enough or at all because of time wasted in front of a television.
· I am going to hand write letters, there is nothing I have to say or need to hear that can't wait a few days on paper in a mailbox (and if there is something urgent, I will call)
I am also starting this blog. It will be filled with simple pleasures of everyday life that I have learned to appreciate being a Farmer's wife.
God Bless You!
Hannah
The Farmer's Wife
Monday, February 13, 2012
My Wonderful Life
There are so many things in my life that make it wonderful. The most important blessing I have ever received is the unconditional love of my husband, Leron. He is an amazing man and I am positive I do not deserve his love any more than I deserve the love I receive from God.
We were introduced by my older sister when she was attending college. It was love at first sight for me even though it took me several years to realize it. We reconnected as my sister was planning her wedding. I was the maid of honor and he was the best man. To hear him tell the story, I saw him across the altar in a tux and saw my future. After 15 months of dating and a bit of showing him I could hack it as a farmer's wife, we got engaged on July 3, a date we still celebrate just as importantly as our wedding anniversary. After 15 months of planning and preparation, we said our vows in front of God, family and friends. It was a beautiful wedding and a day I will always remember.
My wonderful life continued getting better when we had our first child. We welcomed our daughter, Nalley Jane, in August. She weighed in at 6lbs 7oz and 18.5in. She is still our little bug at 18 months she was in the 5th percentile for weight. She is the spitting image of Leron, mimicing his movements, making him laugh and participating in daily dance parties to their favorite song "The Little Drummer Boy".
Another blessing was greeted in September, a second daughter, Felicity Lynn. She was a little bit bigger than her sister weighing in at 8lb 2oz 20 in. At 4 months she is only 5 lbs and 5 inches away from Nalley. I have already gotten asked several times if they are twins. I am sure this question will come up more as they grow older.
And then there are other blessings, a new house that is scheduled to be completed in March, two loving families who help us more than we could ever repay, a successful business, food on the table, clothes on our backs, and sunshine.
I am learning more everyday to be thankful for the little things in life. As a farmer's wife, you can never be disappointed about rain, snow, or cold weather it just means I get more time with my husband when he cannot be in the fields.
More about my wonderful life later... time to feed the baby now!
God Bless You!
Hannah
The Farmer's Wife
We were introduced by my older sister when she was attending college. It was love at first sight for me even though it took me several years to realize it. We reconnected as my sister was planning her wedding. I was the maid of honor and he was the best man. To hear him tell the story, I saw him across the altar in a tux and saw my future. After 15 months of dating and a bit of showing him I could hack it as a farmer's wife, we got engaged on July 3, a date we still celebrate just as importantly as our wedding anniversary. After 15 months of planning and preparation, we said our vows in front of God, family and friends. It was a beautiful wedding and a day I will always remember.
My wonderful life continued getting better when we had our first child. We welcomed our daughter, Nalley Jane, in August. She weighed in at 6lbs 7oz and 18.5in. She is still our little bug at 18 months she was in the 5th percentile for weight. She is the spitting image of Leron, mimicing his movements, making him laugh and participating in daily dance parties to their favorite song "The Little Drummer Boy".
Another blessing was greeted in September, a second daughter, Felicity Lynn. She was a little bit bigger than her sister weighing in at 8lb 2oz 20 in. At 4 months she is only 5 lbs and 5 inches away from Nalley. I have already gotten asked several times if they are twins. I am sure this question will come up more as they grow older.
And then there are other blessings, a new house that is scheduled to be completed in March, two loving families who help us more than we could ever repay, a successful business, food on the table, clothes on our backs, and sunshine.
I am learning more everyday to be thankful for the little things in life. As a farmer's wife, you can never be disappointed about rain, snow, or cold weather it just means I get more time with my husband when he cannot be in the fields.
More about my wonderful life later... time to feed the baby now!
God Bless You!
Hannah
The Farmer's Wife
Saturday, February 11, 2012
My First Post
So I am just getting started with this thing and I haven't even decided if I will publish my blog posts. I have been doing a lot of thinking lately and so much has been going on in my life and the lives of those I care about I figured writing it all down and sorting through it would be an easy way to maintain my sanity.
I have also decided that Facebook doesn't encourage real communication but technology does make it easier to stay in touch with those important people in our lives so I am not cutting it out all together. Creating a blog is definitely more personal than a short post on Facebook and since it is not on facebook with 400+ other recent posts from friends it takes a special effort to view it.
My life is crazy and multidimensional and I am sure my blog will be too. I don't know yet what to expect or what to tell you to expect with regards to posting frequency or the topics I will cover. I am sure some weeks I will feel the desire to post everyday and other weeks I will be either too busy or have nothing inspiring to share. I will try to give you a glimpse of what life is like for me. This will most likely include short stories of how cute, adorable, amazing and exhausting Nalley (18 months) and Felicity (4 months) are, my two daughters, stories of how amazing, wonderful and exhausting my hardworking, loving and awesome husband, Leron, is and maybe some recipes and life updates.
So welcome to The Farmer's Wife! I will post a few background stories first so you can get to know me and my family a little better.
God Bless You!
Hannah
The Farmer's Wife
I have also decided that Facebook doesn't encourage real communication but technology does make it easier to stay in touch with those important people in our lives so I am not cutting it out all together. Creating a blog is definitely more personal than a short post on Facebook and since it is not on facebook with 400+ other recent posts from friends it takes a special effort to view it.
My life is crazy and multidimensional and I am sure my blog will be too. I don't know yet what to expect or what to tell you to expect with regards to posting frequency or the topics I will cover. I am sure some weeks I will feel the desire to post everyday and other weeks I will be either too busy or have nothing inspiring to share. I will try to give you a glimpse of what life is like for me. This will most likely include short stories of how cute, adorable, amazing and exhausting Nalley (18 months) and Felicity (4 months) are, my two daughters, stories of how amazing, wonderful and exhausting my hardworking, loving and awesome husband, Leron, is and maybe some recipes and life updates.
So welcome to The Farmer's Wife! I will post a few background stories first so you can get to know me and my family a little better.
God Bless You!
Hannah
The Farmer's Wife
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