- Successful move from on coast to the other
- Buying a 5-acre farm!
- Settling in
- Building a goat barn and chicken coop
- Buying 2 dairy goats, one of which has since had babies!
- Teaching the kiddos how to milk and care for goats
- Buying a small flock of chickens
- Teaching the kiddos how to care for chickens
- Planting a garden, which is thriving!
- Getting started with an amazing pediatrician who is trauma-informed and specializes in behavioral health and neurology
- Easy access to mental health care for our Sunny
- Getting established with a great new therapist!
- Getting five kids registered at three different schools
- Hubby starting his new job
- Canning gallons of cherries from our tree
- Canning gallons of apricot jam and syrup
- A mini vacation to Portland
- Visits from friends and my sister and her family
- Celebrating birthdays and holidays with family
- Attempted suicide by a child and an ensuing call to the crisis hotline
- Two children making new BFFs
- First bee stings for three kids
- Starting to compost
- Kiddo sleepovers at Grandma's house
- Our 15th anniversary!
- And perhaps the most significant of all...a ruptured posterior tibial tendon for Mommy, which means major reconstructive surgery next week.
And summer is only halfway over!