Kids playing for real

As a kid when I wasn’t doing my chores, I would normally be found playing outside. I had a constant supply of playmate in my siblings. With ten of them who wouldn’t =) We played house (in an old chicken house, my sister “remodeled” ), baked mud pies, had corncob wars, rode our bikes in “rodeos”, climbed trees as ships, played ‘hide-go-seek’ after dark in the fall, kick ball was our go to game in the spring, and I could go on and on naming the different things we did growing up.

But then again I was a loner at heart and a morning person. I enjoyed waking early in the morning and skip to the pasture for my morning visit with the farmer’s cow and calves. (we lived on 400 acres in the middle of no where) I would sit for hours to just tame that one calf. As I got older I took up bird watching and then I would be drawling birds, while sitting on a log in the middle of a bluebell patch. Now that I’ve mentioned the bluebells, I love picking wild flowers and would wait impatiently for the first to bloom in the early spring, running out each day to check to see if it had opened. When it did I’d carry it proudly to my mom and hold it behind my back and ask “do you love me?” before showing her my treasure. I still remember walking through that pasture, so quiet. No sound other than the birds singing and grass waving in the wind. In the middle of this wonderful picture was little me, soaking up the blue sky…all alone in my world…a perfect world.

All of this was done when the weather was nice…when the weather wasn’t conducive to outdoor play we resorted to blocks (that my dad made) and old fashion fisher price people/sets. We built barns and farms, castle and large mansions. Or we were in a wild west town, then it was bank robbing and bad guy chasing=) Normally playing something around what book mom was reading to us at the time or what we were studying in history. I always had animals – I’ve always wanted to be self sufficient, young dreams never die=)

So when I saw all these kids (children of the horse people at the state fair) playing with all these horses, while the rain poured down outsider I couldn’t help but travel down “memory lane” once again=) Took me back to a time before cell phones and video games. Back to a time when kids entertained themselves instead of needing something do the thinking for them. To the time when I was young…btw: I had fantastic set of parent to raise me like that=)

I just loved these=)

I hope you enjoyed my little bit of childhood reminiscing… 

 

~Photo-a-day~ Aug 6–Aug 12

Finally found the time (here at work) to put this post together. I’m over my head in work this week…can’t seem to find the time for anything remotely personal. I’m up late every night doing something – working-out at eleven pm has got to stop. I’ve come in to work late everyday this week – over slept or something along those lines. I need to get to bed before one and when I actually lay down, stop checking facebook, instagram etc. just go to sleep.

Tuesday night I was invited over to see the eleventh child of some Amish friends of mine. It was born just the morning before. So adorable! I’m not a baby person and most of them aren’t cute just after birth and I won’t lie about them being cute either. But this little girlie was something else. 

Isaac and I picked corn. Lots. Lots. Lots. and lots of it! Last night. I love doing anything with this incredible guy. Then we marched through weeds over our head to fill two bags with elder berries, for our sweet mom. Should have seen her face when she looked in the bags=) Made walking through all those tall weeds worth it.

So here’s this weeks photos are a day late…but there ARE here none the less=)

Enjoy!

Day 218

~black & white~

Day 219

~far away~

I miss this place so much! sometime it hurts…I miss every little thing about it. I even miss the scalding attic in the summer. And I wouldn’t complain if I could JUST go down to the cellar, one last time.

Day 220

~outdoors~

Gladiolas…one of the most beautiful garden flowers=)

Day 221

~favorite room

The kitchen would take first place in this contest=) mom making sausage patties

Day 222

~entertainment~

I saw this bike show like four times so far at the state fair…it still makes me scream=)

Day 223

~where I stand~

after an evening workout…I was standing in the kitchen drinking a glass of cold water.

Day 224

~paper~

just out of the oven - waiting to cool on brown paper…when I’m bored I bake cookies=)

Have a fabulous day! and remember to let me know which photo you enjoy most! =)

 

June 24th

    In my room...Christina was reading and bored with listening to me=) the joys of sharing a room with your sister!

We are decorating our room in shabby sheek...love it! It feel so much like our previous home

An Amish lady we babysit for made this for us...lyrics from Miranda Lambert's "The House That Built Me" This song is exactly the way we feel about our old home...

Christina's an Amish novel reader (seems pretty natural seeing we are surrounded by them, their really nothing like in these books btw)...she like wow this one is so good, you should read it, (like I would ever have the time to read)...I like this photo a lot!