Mrs. Farmer Jones blogs about winter, time, and its distractions February is a major birthday month in our household.  My daughter will be 17 in a few days, followed by my son, who will turn 15.  Sometimes, when I look at them, a wave of panic … [Read more...]

By Hannah Brencher "I can’t change." Whoever told us success, health, wealth, or overall transformation came in big, sweeping motions tricked us. They fully tricked us. As someone who has studied discipline for almost a decade, I can tell you … [Read more...]

Wrapping my sweater a little tighter around my chest, I think about how, just a few days ago, the air was warm and the sun bright. I look out at the prairie we planted, and I see all the pretty colors of the flowers still peeking through the … [Read more...]

By Hannah Brenchner On Friday, I posted an Instagram story asking: What’s the biggest lie you’re fighting? I figured I would scoop the lies up– one by one– and start to break them down in this space. We could ambush them together and pick the … [Read more...]

The girls took up crocheting projects this weekend. They went to the craft store, invested in their supplies, mapped out their designs and got at it. They soon discovered that being new to crocheting made it quite easy to ‘drop a stitch’. When that … [Read more...]

I walked through the growing prairie yesterday during the golden hour. My goodness. It's beautiful. So many colors peeking through, proving that the perennial wildflowers and native grasses we seeded will become established flora for fauna in the … [Read more...]