Dragonfly Homestead

Living in a very rugged rural land you learn very quickly that you are seldom alone. In Southern Humboldt County you will often find far mor...

I never thought I would be a homeschooling mother. Much less teaching three kids. The decision to home-school our children came about quite ...

Our days start early. Earp wakes around 6am. If I am lucky I can snuggle him in my bed and he will let me doze for another hour. Then he wan...

Fall is on steroids at my house right now. Homeschooling a 2nd grader and a kindergartner is craft intensive. This week we are focusing on ...

Anxiety For as long as I can remember I have always worried about what people think of me. Of doing or saying the wrong thing. Before I go...

WOW it has been a long long while since I have had the time to sit down at a keyboard and type something for myself. Let's see if I ...

The day seemed ordinary enough. House work. Sick kids. Out of water. But I knew something was not right when my two female dogs, one black ...

It is 2:30am. And as I lay here on the couch next to my sweetly sleeping milk parasite I cannot sleep. I keep replaying my day and trying to...

I have a new obsession. To have a picket fence. We have little money to put into this endeavor so I set my Pinterest sights on some DIY vers...

This is super easy and just about the only way I can get Bug to bathe these days. I use an old cupcake tin. Fill each cup with any foami...

Bug and I had so much fun doing this activity. I really needed to distract her so I could make dinner and this was perfect. Kept her close ...

I have been trying to find ways to incorporate nature play with our art time. So today Bug and I collected our paint supplies and then went ...

As a new mother to two under two, if I could give one piece of advice it would be the gift of co-napping. Bug still goes down for an afterno...

I stumbled upon this really fun and easy bird feeder picture on pinterest. Unfortunately there were no directions to go along with the pictu...

Everyone is always telling me I worry about my Girls to much. Especially my Hubby. And for the most part they are right. While I would love ...

Wow! I am sorry you guys! When I decided to take a little time off from chronicling my life and just LIVE it I never intended for it to be f...

Wow. Ok. So Bug and I went to Fairy Godmother house for a night and when I made a fire I noticed her cast iron kettle on the top. Not thinki...

Sorry folks. Guess I got caught up in the holidays and forgot I had a blog to keep up. We have had a wonderful holiday season in our neck of...

I love my Hubby. He is a great Husband and an even better Father. But he does work full time. Like I have mentioned in the past, breastfeedi...

Happy holidays from my family to yours....

I love this time of year! First Halloween, then Thanksgiving, then my wedding anniversary(Christmas eve), then Christmas, and last but not l...

Wow. Some people shouldn't be allowed to work with kids. Ever. Bug had her first check up yesterday. Ever. She's 41 weeks. Our small...

I'm so tired. Complete Mombie. I'm not really sure exactly what happened or when it happened but Bugs sleep schedule went down the d...

Oh wow. I had to wait until Hubby got in the shower and I stopped laughing until I cry. Ok. So its the day before Thanksgiving and I am tryi...

How can so much happen in such a short time. I don't even know where to begin. Guess I will get the bad stuff out of the way first. Bug ...

It's all coming together. I love our little house. I always have. But it was just that little. Maybe even tiny. Hubby built it with his ...

Whew! I was starting to worry I would never find the time and energy to write again. But here I am. So much has happened this month I don...

Before my Bug came along I had my own house cleaning business. We live in a small close nit community and I did well. I made my own hours, w...

Hubby built our very modest home with his own two hands. Just himself no help. Well I painted . And because of budget we have kept thing ver...

I don't think I drive that fast. But I do come from a long line of race car, motorcycle racer, dare devil drivers. It must just be in my...

Bug has not been sleeping well. She starts off in her crib for 3 or 4 hours but round 1am ever night she wakes up and screams until we go co...

I have almost thrown my back out this week. I don't think I have ever been this sore in my whole life. And I have a tyrant to take care ...

I haven't had a lot of? time to write lately. Frankly its been to hot to be inside and Bug and I have taken advantage of this shady spot...

I thought I was ready. I spent ten and a half months reading every pregnancy and birth book I could get my hands on. While I worked I listen...

I have waist length thick hair so I use 2 avocados 2 egg yolks 2 tblsp extra virgin Olive oil 2 tblsp organic local honey Blend avocad...

We took Bug to the ocean for the second time. The first she slept. But this time she was awake and aware of everything. It has been close to...

I just completed my first fresh blackberry cobbler. After hubby got home from work I was at my wits end with my fussy Bug. So I loaded up th...

We wake up, have a little cuddle and giggle, then I strap her into a bounce chair while she watches classical baby. It gives me time to mak...

I'm still alive. Really? The only thing worse then food poisoning is food poisoning with a nursing teething titty tyrant.

I'm dying. Slowly. Painfully. The life is being ripped from my chest by a 15 lbs blue eyed wailing ball of tears. I wake up in the morni...

Wow, my first blog how exciting! This is the week that my husband and I (mostly him) decided we want our bed back. We spent a lot of hard ea...