Ode to my Mac...

Today is a hard HARD day... Nathan and I were having a great night. Peaceful, restful... Sunday nite football started last night, and me, being the avid football fan that I am decided to go chill with the dogs. We chilled in the garage and watched the sunset. I drank a coke and split my last pack of caramel rice cakes between the three of us.

Nathan came out and we fed the chickens and then Mac and Moose, kissed them goodnite (well, I did, not nathan) and we headed in. Come about 9:20p we were going around to lock up and go to bed a little early, when nathan noticed someone in the driveway. A man had hit a dog, and long story short it was my Mac-y. :(

I haven't had a dry eye for longer than 5 min. You never really learn about your love for an animal until they're gone. I've still never seen nathan cry, but we made a special bed for Moose next to our last night and the two of us cried ourselves to sleep.

I tried work today, but in the hour that I was there, I spent more time in the bathroom cleaning up my face and the tear spots on my dress, that i was better off at home. Moose and I walked our route that we all three used to walk and he froliced down the road while i just kept wiping my face. Then, when we got back home I just spread out a blanket in the backyard and we just laid there.

I'm pretty sure Moose is ok, he's just lonely. We're planning on a play date with the dogs at Nathan's parent's house tonight. I think I'm so broken, because I didnt see it coming at all and I was having such a good weekend and then.... boom.

Ok, I'll stop. Here is my little photo memory of Mac...
I'll be fine tomorrow, just let me mope the rest of today....

When God builds my house in heaven, I know you'll be sitting on my front porch.

Love you Mac.

I am a NEW woman!

We have finally gotten internet at home about a week ago and Nathan hooked up our dryer on Saturday. We have traveled forward in time about 6 years or so...now, all that's left to move into the 21st Century is a dishwasher, cable, and a microwave. Well, not so much the microwave... that's kind of by choice...I just wanted to see if I could do it. I kind of prefer not having it. I don't think Nathan feels the same way.

We are continually making progress on the house. Nathan has gotten closet organizers in all of the closets, our washer and dryer have made in the same room and are hooked up! I have three things hung on the wall. Our name has made it on the mailbox (as enforced by the US Post office :/). Nathan was kind of surprised it fit. I've got skill...

And finally!!! WE FINISHED PHASE II of our Chicken Coop!

Yay! Let me introduce you to the crew...

Eugeine starts at the top. Stumpy is behind the water jug. Ruby (because of a baby and the color of her feathers), Caesar next (I was thinking salad), then Hollandaise is the next white one, and then Beefy... b/c she's the biggest!

Now all we have left to do is create a fenced in walking area for them. Nathan is also thinking about starting to build a deck on the back of the house this week. I think his goal is to sit outside on his deck by the end of summer. I can handle that.

What's next for this NEW country wife...

10 Things I Love in my Kitchen

1. Nut Grinder

Because my mother and my grandmother used one. Pish Posh to the bags that are already chopped. I have my own thank you very much!

2. French Press

Because my husband HATES coffee. When my one cup is all it takes for a great Saturday morning.

3. Colorful Mixing Bowls

Because they’re just so pretty to mix in! When I moved into my new kitchen with the glass paned cabinet, I would not rest until those colorful bowls were behind that glass.

4. My Frog

Because I never realized there would be a time where O would actually wash my own dishes in a sink with a sponge. He has become very useful and not just a cute sink ornament.

5. My Stove

Because we are a poor married couple. I smile when I look at our stove. It came out of a garage Nathan cleaned. Oh, rusty stove…just when I thought I had an iron deficiency after weaning myself off of Peoria water…

6. Toaster Oven

Because Nathan and I are not getting a microwave…more like I won’t let us…I want to see if we can live without one and because toaster oven pizza is AWESOME in the summer so you don’t have to warm up the whole house with the rusty stove.

7. Ants

Because the remind me that even the perfect kitchen isn’t perfect. It also reminds me to do the dishes, put the lid on the sugar, and how AMAZING I am at towel snapping!

8. Grandma's Dishes

Because sometimes it’s not just Gma’s cooking that makes her cheesy potatoes SO good. I have eaten out of these dishes every thanksgiving I have ever been able to eat solid food.

9. Wooden Spoons

Because plastic melts and doesn’t keep the water from overflowing in my noodle water. My go-to kitchen utencial for baking in the kitchen and licking afer cookies!

10. KitchenAid Mixer

Because it’s timeless, it’s multifunctional, it’s durable, its RED, and it just plan makes me feel cool! Sometimes I just pull it out because it reminds me that I can cook.