~ One Snowy Night ~

Visit Code Name: Mama and Living Peacefully with Children to find out how you can participate in the next Families, Create! Carnival.

This is one of our absolute favorite stories. In this particular version the hat has the velvety coating to make it soft so it is fun to feel. This is a great story to help show kindness and compassion for one another.

To go with our story I made this little amigurumi hedgehog and red hat. The kids loved him and call him Hedgie. He snuggles right down in his warm little hat. We are off to read our story so I will post more pictures of the kids and Hedgie tomorrow.

Please take time to read the submissions by the other carnival participants:

• What's the perfect way to snuggle up on a cold winter night? Acacia at Fingerpaint & Superheroes knows the answer: make the perfect soup!

• Simply decorated jars by children bring warmth and light to cold Winter's days at Living Peacefully with Children.

• The ArtsyMama teaches us how to create a no sew fleece throw inspired by your favorite snuggle time book.

• Movies made from books are often pretty poor representations, but this family-made movie from Dionna at Code Name: Mama is monster-ific!

• Aunalise at My Sweet Potatoes created a cozy for her Kindle, to protect it from little hands that think they need to cuddle with it.

• What better way to cuddle and get cozy than in new jammies made by Mama G @ Z everyday things?

• Inspired by her family's love of the Harry Potter series, Mandy at Nestled Under Rainbows shared a reflection on and a celebration of snuggies, lovies, cuddlies and specials.

• Little Hedgehog got a wonderful idea when his red hat from Father Christmas didn't fit, and Megan at Purple Dancing Dahlias got a wonderful idea to knit a sweet hedgehog!

• Monster-inspired artwork by a monster-clad kid. Despite the growling, he really is cuddly! Monster love courtesy of Dionna at Code Name: Mama.

• Arpita at Up, Down & Natural shares a quick tutorial on how to make your very own Pippalily inspire pouch sling, with zippered pocket & key ring, and a matching nursing cover to boot!

• Amy at Anktangle finally completed something cuddly and warm for her son Daniel: his very own afghan, crocheted with love by Momma.

• Who'd want to cuddle with a cuttlefish? Aunalise at My Sweet Potatoes thinks you might want to cuddle up with this sweet plush cuttlefish!

• In an attempt to slow down and relax while watching her children, Mandy at Living Peacefully with Children decided to give knitting another chance.

Join us in February to create something with (or for) your own family. Visit Code Name: Mama and Living Peacefully with Children to find out more about February's "Heroes and Heroines" theme.

~ Garden Plans ~

I love this article on Food Freedom about growing plants vertically to maximize your gardening space thus maximizing yields. We created tipis last year for our pole beans and they were so pretty. We used Ironwood trees for our poles and twine strung from one side to another for extra supports. We had 28 plants on each tipi. The mistake I made was planting one variety too close to another and they cross pollinated so I couldn't really save seeds. We did get very interesting looking beans! This is a close up of the flowers that adorned our tipis. This particular one is from a Scarlett Runner Pole Bean. We also planted Rattlesnake Pole Beans and Hidatsa Pole Beans. The Rattlesnakes had lavender flowers and the Hidatsa had light pink flowers. These would be absolutely gorgeous growing up the side of a house. They will grow between 10 to 12 feet so they wouldn't really work for a front yard fence. You could grow peas that grow around 32" on a front yard fence and get the benefits of flowers, pretty greenery, and food! What more could you ask for? This is one of my favorite green bean recipes. The original recipe comes from Laurel's Kitchen, I have change it just a bit to our taste preferences.

Creamy Sesame Beans and Celery

3 c green beans, 3/4" length
1 c celery, chopped
1/2 onion, chopped
2 tbsp arrow root powder
1 tsp of sea salt
1 c raw milk yogurt
1/2 c full fat cottage cheese
1/8 tsp pepper
1/2 tsp oregano dash of garlic powder
1/4 c toasted sesame seeds, ground
1/4 to 1/2 cup sourdough bread crumbs
1 tbsp of butter

Cook green beans, celery, and onion in a small amount of stock until barely tender. Drain and reserve liquid to mix with arrowroot powder. Mix stock, sea salt, and arrowroot powder and mix with veggies. Add yogurt and stir; place in a deep casserole pan. Mix seasoning with cottage cheese and spread over vegetables. Melt butter and add sesame seeds and breadcrumbs, then spread them over the cottage cheese. Bake at 350 for 30 minutes. This post is shared at :

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~ Spring...~

It looks like this outside...

And I am doing this... Organizing seeds and plotting gardens. I can not wait (but I have too) till it is warm enough to start planting. I will be starting lots seeds inside and the first one to start will be:

8 weeks before last spring frost

• American Flag Leeks
• Carantan Leeks
• Giant Musselburg Leeks
• Pepinos
• Huckleberries
• Thai Red Papaya
• Pink Bananas

And, if you look closely at the second picture you will notice the squares instead of rows. I am going to plant in 2'x2' squares this year instead of rows. A 1'x4' row will yield 12 beets while a 2'x2' box will yield 36 plants because you can stagger them. If you have a small garden space this may be something to consider. We will also be doing raised beds with our 2'x2' boxes to make it easier for the kids to know exactly where they can step. It is our hope that gardening this way will cut down on the weeding we have to do as well.
Plants to start indoors 6 weeks before last spring frost:

• Sunberries
• Strawberries
• Tomatillos
• Tomatoes
• Peppers
• Eggplants

I will post pictures and the varieties that I grow closer to the time I need to start them.

~ Grain Free Pizza Crust ~

I made the grain free pizza crust from The Healthy Home Economist and it was so good. I made a double batch and it fed all six of us with half a pizza left over.

The only changes I made were instead of the individual spices I used Bragg's No Salt Seasoning because I was in a hurry. This was really good and a thumbs up with the kids. We will be making this again, most likely replacing our regular whole wheat flour crust.

~ The Good, The Bad, & the Ugly ~

The Good: I can salvage just about anything when it comes to cooking. Even with huge screw-ups, I always seem to be able to manage to turn it into something that tastes good.

The Bad: Common sense says that I have screwed up a lot and had lots of practice making something from nothing.

The Ugly: There is really only one thing I can remember throwing in the garbage, more out of fustration I think than anything else. I tried making sloppyjoes under-the-bun. It called for Bisquic which isn't allowed in my home, so I made corn bread and put that on top of my sloppyjoe meat. Big time fail! I used way to small of a pan and after 1 1/2 of cooking it still wasn't done. My husband was still going to eat it, his reasoning, "I'm hungry". Seriouly dude, you are not eating that half cooked pan of slop.

Well, I did it again this morning. I started making sourdough last night with the intent of having 5 french loaves ready for breakfast in the morning. It must have been cold in the house (imagine that with the average temp for the last few days in the -20) because it took forever to rise. So long, in fact that I completely forgot about it and went to bed. My nice round loaf of dough that I put in the oven to rise was no longer my nice ball of dough but a bowl of goo by morning.

I still managed so get 6 loaves of sourdough french bread and 2 loaves of raisin cinnamon bread. It took a lot of extra flour and patiences. On a sad note, my sourdough aquire some extra cultures somewhere in the past few days and started to grow some where orange stuff so I tossed it. I was thinking about going grain free for awhile anyway so maybe this is just the push I needed.

~ Homeschooling ~

This post was written for Fertile Imagination @ http://community.fertilityflower.com/ where I have monthly column. Feel free to visit me over there, too! Wow, a new year! What I would like to know is where did last year go? Did everyone else’s year go as fast as mine did? We have had a very fun, relaxing year of home schooling thus far. We have incorporated quite a bit of unschooling, keeping a relaxed atmosphere encouraging learning when the kids are most open to experiencing new things. We have utilized some teaching textbooks from The Critical Thinking Company. The boys really like them and it is a great way for them to learn to get a few things done on their own which leaves me with a little wiggle room to knead bread or change the laundry around. We did lap books this year for science and WHAT A BLAST! Putting them together was a huge project all on its own and now they are busy filling them in. It amazes me how much more they retain verses just reading it from a textbook. Last year we didn’t do a lot in the arts and crafts department. It was a bit of a trick to get a project done from start to finish with little helpers around to suck on glue sticks and sprinkle “pixie dust” around the house. For this years projects I opted for spending a little bit more money and buy craft kits that incorporate other subjects. Mosaic art that has a math base, paint by number for learning numbers and following directions, and snowflakes that included a science lesson. Our big highlight for this year will be the birth of a new baby calf. It doesn’t get anymore hands on than that. We have the opportunity to see pictures of a friends new calf and the placenta so the kids have a bit of knowledge in the birth department, but it will be really cool to experience it in real life. I am going to try and get it on video, hopefully she won’t deliver in the middle of the night when no one is around. We are already working on a seed order for this year. The kids are each getting a small square of dirt to work with. They will get to choose what they want to grow and will tend to it. We are going to keep a journal for measuring growth, weather conditions, and soil temps. Depending on what they grow and how much they plant they will have the option to come to the farmers market with me and sell what they produce. I realize that home schooling isn’t for everyone. The biggest thing people ask me is how do they socialize. Without going into a great deal of detail, we have ample opportunity to socialize with people of all age ranges, not just the other 30 kids of the same age in their classroom. My kids are comfortable playing and talking with someone to is 2 to 92. I feel that we get a much more rounded education with home schooling/unschooling than we would get in the public education system. It works especially well with our second son who is dealing with vaccine injury. It has aloud us to continually utilize what works and drop what doesn’t. The freedom teachers don’t have, to customize a learning plan for one student who is very bright and intelligent, but happens to learn differently than most kids. I bought him reading material at the fifth grade level for Christmas (he’s 7) and he is halfway through what I bought already. We are planning on mixing it up with a few more field trips (we started our school year with a field trip/family vacation to the Black Hills of South Dakota) and plan on having a ton of fun learning as a family.

~ Rice Custard ~

This is from my friend Nikki, one of a handful of real food friends I have in real life. This recipe is from her Grammy and is said to be delish. Our hens haven't been laying quite as much because of the cold so I haven't gotten to make it yet. 1cup rice (uncooked) 2 cups water 2 cups milk (I use all water) 3/4 t salt (I omit) 4 cups milk 1 cup or less honey (or other sweetener) 1 T vanilla 12 eggs, well beaten nutmeg & cinnamon Comb. rice, water, milk, and salt in heavy pan. Bring to boil. Cook on low until done, stirring occasionally. add remaining milk, honey, and vanilla. Add beaten eggs. Pour into pan. Sprinkle w spices and bake at 300 degrees for about 45m or until a knife comes out clean. Shared at:

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~ Breaking the Silence ~

Wow, it has been a few days since my last post but my mom duties were calling. Our school room was looking more like the...I don't have a word for it, only pictures. Also, the laundry monster needed to be taken care of, everyone running out of underwear causes a bit of an uproar in this house.

Before

After

Our kitchen has been rock'in in the lacto-fermentation department too! Mayo, ketchup, ginger ale, kombucha, sourdough, kefir, and water kefir.

We have also made cookies for church, soaked flour English muffins, chicken wild rice soup. I have a recipe for Italian Spaghetti Squash and one for Rice Custard to share, but Grace and I have been reading out loud the story of Rose Wilder (Laura Ingalls Wilder's daughter) at bedtime and I want to see what happens next as much as she does!

~ Peanutbutter Cups and Peanutbutter Fudge ~

These are so good and super, super easy, peanutbutter cups and peanutbutter fudge. I found these mini-muffin cups at...cough...Walmart, but I have mini-muffin tins so next time I am going to use those. I found both of these recipes at The Nourishing Homemaker, she has the best stuff. I change the fudge recipe a bit. The kids and hubby thought it was too oily so I add the rest of the peanutbutter mixed with nutrition yeast flakes that was left over from the peanutbutter cups, at least a half cup(got a bit ahead of myself). We really like the nutrition yeast flakes in the fudge, they gave it some crunch. This is a really great way to get some coconut oil into your kids too. A bit about coconut oil from The Healthy Home Economist's article about the Five Fats You MUST Have in Your Kitchen

COCONUT OIL Coconut oil is loaded with medium chain saturated fats which are utilized by the body for immediate energy! Want to feel better and have more energy? Incorporate this wonderful, healthy fat into your diet in copious amounts. Coconut oil is a highly stable oil, so much so, that you can keep it unrefrigerated in your pantry for years and it will not go rancid (I have a 5 gallon bucket in my garage .. it stays perfect through the long, hot, humid Florida summers!) It remains stable even at very high heat, so it is the ideal cooking oil. I use coconut oil anytime a recipe calls for cooking oil or shortening. Coconut oil used in your baked goods will result in cookies, cakes, and pastries so moist – you and your family will be delighted. Pepperidge Farm used to use coconut oil in their line of cookies years ago, only to replace it with very unhealthy, partially hydrogenated vegetable oils (aka, Factory Fats) when saturated fats became erroneously regarded as heart unhealthy. Coconut oil, however, is now known to be extremely heart healthy .. the Traditional Cultures that consume coconuts and coconut oil have some of the lowest rates of heart disease in the world (not to mention are some of the slimmest people in the world). Physiologically, coconut oil stimulates the thyroid gland, so is a fantastic addition to the diet for those that tend toward hypothyroidism (by some estimates, some 80% of Westerners over the age of 25 fall into this category). Lauric acid, a very important medium chain saturated fatty acid, is found in abundance in coconut oil. Lauric acid is highly antiviral, antibacterial, and antifungal. And guess what? The human mammary gland produces lauric acid and it is contained in breastmilk! Anyone with candida issues of any kind should be regularly consuming coconut oil in their diet. Rubbing coconut oil into the scalp and then shampooing out is a wonderful home remedy for dandruff, a fungal infection of the skin. If you have an allergy to coconut, try palm oil or palm kernel oil, two other healthy tropical oils.

~ Wordless Wednesday ~

~ Hot Chicken Salad ~

This is one of those recipes that I love. The pan is never big enough and each day it seems to just get better. It is also one of those recipes that originally called for canned condensed soup and store bought mayo. Can we say yuk! So, this is my healthy, nourishing food rendition: 2 1/2 c diced cooked pasture fed chicken 2 c cooked organic rice 1 can sliced water chestnuts, drained 1 c diced organic celery 1 c organic sliced fresh mushrooms 1 tbsp finely diced organic onion 1 tsp fresh organic lemon juice 1/2 tsp dried organic rosemary 1/4 tsp pepper 2 c homemade cream chicken soup 3/4 c homemade mayo Topping: 3 tbsp organic butter 1/2 c sourdough bread crumbs 1/2 c slivered crispy almonds Mix the first 9 ingredients. Blend soup and mayo together and toss with chicken and rice mixture. Put into a grease 2 qt casserole dish; sprinkle with topping and bake at 350 for 30 minutes. Enjoy! This post was shared at:

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~ Pay it Forward 2011 ~

I put this on my facebook page but haven't had any taker so far so I am going to share it here. I am going to put my own special twist on it so don't miss out!

Pay it forward 2011: I promise something handmade to the FIRST 5 people who leave a comment here. However, to be eligible, you MUST repost this status, offering something handmade to 5 other people. The rules are that it must be handmade by YOU & it must be sent to your 5 people sometime in 2011. Ready, set, CREATE!

Hat for Grace

~ The Stylish Blogger Award ~

Lisa at The Nourishing Homemaker awarded me The Stylish Blogger Award. Thanks Lisa! Its hard to believe that a month ago I was getting zero hits and after sharing my blog for a few weeks with the foodie community I have been blessed to meet lots of other rock'in foodie moms and get to receive and give awards. So much fun! Stylish Bloggers Award Winners: 1. Thank and link back to the person who awarded you this award. 2. Share 7 things about yourself. 3. Award 15 recently discovered great bloggers. 4. Contact these bloggers and tell them about the award! 1. Come Walk with Me 2. Connected Mom 3. Crunchy not Hippie 4. girlichef 5. juliecache 6. One Mama's Adventure in the Compact 7. Sense of Home 8. Mexican Wildflower 9. Simply Homemaking 10. Sustainable Suburbia: The Blog 11. The Homemade Housewife 12. Day to Day Adventures 13. a Good and Simple life 14. Healthy Homesteading 15. Quotidian

7 Things About Myself

1. I love to learn and share. I may go back to school for Holistic Nutrition or start a WAP chapter and teach with the local community ed program.

2. If I could be outside every moment of the day I would. We are thinking of building a summer kitchen with a wood cook stove.

3. Whatever I am doing consumes my mind and time. It either all or nothing. Hence lots of food in the kitchen at the moment and lots of dirty laundry too!

4. I love to snowboard but haven't done it since my first baby eight years ago.

5. I went to school for Animal Science and used to train horses and give riding lessons.

6. I love food, I mean, I REALLY love food!

7. I love to make people happy but I am not a people pleaser. I will not walk on eggshells for fear of offending someone.

"We cannot withhold facts for fear of offending because the importance of the information outweighs people's right to not be challenged in their beliefs". ~ Maddy Reid

~ Breakfast on the Go ~

Long story short, I ran out of baking dishes so I had to get creative when it came to the baked oatmeal. Used my favorite unbleached paper liners (my pans are aluminum) and filled them to the top with oatmeal batter. They turned out prefect and would be a great quick grab and go breakfast. You could even bake a bunch at the beginning of the week so that you had them when you needed them.

~ Soaked Pumpkin Bread ~

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This is my all time favorite pumpkin bread recipe. I use it for cake and frost it with cream cheese frosting for dessert and no one is the wiser, yet we can eat it at breakfast and its still healthy. I stumbled upon it at GNOWFGLINS, Embracing "God's Natural, Organic, Whole Foods, Grown Locally, In Season" and I am so glad that I did.

I debated a good long while with myself on whether I should type out the recipe and give credit where credit is due, to Wardeh or give you a link so that you have to go and check out the recipe at her site and find all the other really good stuff she has there. Do to a small cling-on, its the latter, so buzz on over to GNOWFGLINS to get the recipe, you won't be sorry you did.

~ My Baby Girl is Four! ~

My baby girl turned four today. My, does time fly. As she was eating breakfast I said to her "How did you get so big? It was just yesterday you were a little baby". Her response "No! yesterday I was three". Grace was my first planned homebirth which I wrote about here. The one thing that I would do differently is let my water break on its own. There aren't enough words to describe how different homebirths are compared to hospital births. I can't ever imagine going back to the hospital to give birth (unless a true emergency were to happen). My sister made this absolutely adorable apron for her and sent her some felt food from Ikea. She loved it. It was her favorite gift! Thanks Auntie Lexie!!

I wrote this post on the 6th but waited to post it because I knew my sister was most likely sending something really fun and I wanted to share.

~ Organic Gardening and Farming Books

Even with snow on the ground and sub-zero temperatures I have been thinking about spring and gardens and starting seeds. These are books I have read or they are on my list. I am a picture person, I have to see it to understand what you are talking about so I love books with lots of great pictures, especially when it comes to greenhouses and farm buildings. I check as many books out from the library as I can. If I really like a book I will order it. In my opinion, there is nothing worse than spending good money on a not so great book.

The Greenhouse Book by Sidney Clapham

The Greenhouse Expert by Dr.D.G. Hessayon

The Backyard Homestead;Produce all the food you need on just a quarter acre! Edited by Carleen Madigan

Organic Gardening in Cold Climates by Sandra Perrin

Old-Time Gardening Wisdom by Jerry Baker ~ Learned so much from this one.

The Practical Homestead by Paul Heiney ~ Love this one, great pictures too!

Square Foot Gardening by Mel Bartholomew

Square Foot Gardening Lesson Plans for Kids by Mel Bartholomew ~ I will be ordering this!

I have always loved catalog shopping. When I was little I would page through the J.C.Penny catalog and circle all of the things I would have loved to have. Now my catalogs of choice are seed catalogs. These are a few of my favorite companies.

Baker Creek Heirloom Seeds

Heirloomseeds.com ~ no catalog but awesome variety

Turtle Tree Seeds ~ I have never ordered from them but have heard rave reviews, ordered catalog

Fedco Seeds

~ How to Make Homemade Jerky Using Ground Meat ~

I made this jerky using an older ground venison roast we had in the freezer. It was a four pound roast and I made four different kinds of jerky with it. The kids and hubby ate it all in less than three weeks. I made this in my Excalibur dehydrator but you could do it in the oven as well. I am giving the instructions to do just one pound of meat. This recipe is totally chemical free, no nitrate, nitrites, or MSG. Our meat grinder is one of the best investments in kitchen gadgets we have made. It allows us to process our own meat which saves us a ton of money. Ingredients:

1 lb ground venison or pasture raised ground beef or chicken

1 tbsp organic coconut amino acids

1 tsp Bragg's no salt seasoning

1/4 tsp white pepper

Mix really well. There are two ways that we make jerky from ground meat, with a jerky gun or a patty maker. Either way you want about a 1/4 thickness of meat. I used the jerky gun and squeezed the meat right onto my trays. I set the temperature at 155 for 4 to 6 hours. After four hours watch them, you want them to bend but not break. All set for the dehydrator. When they were finished I took my kitchen shears and cut them into thirds.If you have metal dehydrator racks you can do this in your oven as well. A convection oven works best because it moves the air around. Set your oven at 155 and leave the door ajar slightly so that the moisture can escape.

These made an awesome breakfast stick as they tasted like breakfast sausage from the rosemary and sage in the no salt seasoning. It keeps best in the freezer but we eat it so fast that it doesn't get into the freezer. If fact, they ate it so fast that I didn't even get a picture of the finished product. Also, using the coconut aminos instead of soy sauce gave them a sweet and salty taste, which the kids really loved.

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~ Christmas Gifts ~

The hubs and kids gave me a great gift this year for Christmas. It wasn't diamonds but almost as good. A new blender/food processor combo. I think I have used it everyday, what a time saver. We think this was my great-grandmothers ring but we are not sure. I had it cleaned and the bands totally reconstructed because they were so thin and frail. I love the detail and two toned looked, my wedding ring is a mix of white and yellow gold too. This was a bit of a present to myself, I have had the rings for eight years waiting for the money to have them repaired. Adam at Stonehouse Jewelers did the work for me (and he fixed my wedding ring when it went through the blender).

~ My New Fun Project ~

My fun new crafty project includes this book and the theme Cuddles. Want to join me, click here to find out more.

~ Getting Back in the Groove ~

I had a small secret goal for the month of December, to post every single day. I almost made it, but between most of my family getting that really nasty stomach bug (the week of Christmas), the four Christmas gatherings we had, and New Years, I didn’t quite make it. I have a rather long list of things that I would like to blog about, including this months Carnival of Natural Parenting and the new Crafty Carnival : Cuddling. Blogging has become my “mom time” and I love it. I get to share all that I am passionate about which is important to me. I also started joining linky parties to share my blog with others online and in the process have found lots of other great blogs. If you have a blog you really like and I don’t have it listed, me let me know so I can add it to my favorites list. I am in the process of putting together a book list of must reads and must haves, so if you have a favorite real food cookbook, alternative healing books, AP parenting books, organic gardening/farming book, crafty books or home school resource books, let me know. I will check it out and add it to the list. If you would like to do a guest post please let me know, I would love to have others share their personal experiences on the subjects that I am passionate about. I have learned so much from others who are willing to share what they know.

~Our Farm ~

Right now our farm consist of three horses, one Arabian (B), one Appolosa (Bandit), and one pinto pony (Duck). Two Scottish Highland cattle, our family milk cow (Myra) and her calf (Carmel) with one on the way, we think! Two cats, one we found in the barn (Tinker Bell) and one we got from another farm (Tiger Lily). One Blue Heeler/Catahooi mix cattle dog (Roscoe). At last count we have about 45 chickens and 12 ducks. We are hoping to add another milk cow in the near future, a Jersey and some more Scottish Highlanders. We would also like to add at least one milk goat (I have a friend that would be over the moon) and some Icelandic Sheep along with another breed that would have wool qualities better suited for homemade wool diaper covers and leggies. My husband has turned into the crazy poultry man so the chances of adding geese and turkeys to the mix is highly likely. We managed to plant four apricot trees and four cherries last spring, fingers crossed that they will come up again this spring. We had to replant last spring because they didn't make it through the winter. We would like to add a Belgian Fence of apples, maybe even pears, peaches, and plums. I have access to grapes so the urge to plant those isn't has high but they do take awhile to get going to the sooner I started them the better. We are looking at planting a u-pick patch of aspargus, strawberries, rhubarb, raspberries, and cranberries. We have new fences to put up, a barn to repair, a huge garden to plant (would love to be at the farmers market and sell produce at a price people can afford), starting medicinal herb patches and a million other ideas brewing in my head. I get butterflies just thinking about it, both from the excitment to see things get done and the incredible work load it entails. I am living my dream and I feel very blessed to start out 2011 with such an incredible vision. What are your dreams, goals, aspirations for the coming year? Shared at: Monday Mania Tuesday Twister