So I've decided I want a garden and I think I want chickens and cows too. I can't fully explain it in words, but it's growing to be something I'm quite passionate about. Our friends Juli and Heath have talked about buying land and sharing some acres with two other couples so we can have fruits/vegetables and some animals. That way we could all share in the responsibility and the harvest.
Here are the pros to having this available:
1. Fresh food doesn't hold a candle nutritionally to what you can buy at the store, picked green and shipped from who knows where.
2. If we grow it we know what has been done to it.
3. As I get older I guess I want roots. Growing things from beginning to end appeals to me.
4. We want to be healthy and eat whole foods God made to eat.
5. It's cheaper!
6. It's still available in times of disaster.
7. I want my children to appreciate the outdoors, to run and play and climb trees.
Here are the cons or things I see as road blocks:
1. I sure don't know much about gardening or raising animals, although I do have many senior citizens I work with as resources!
2. Mike is not passionate about it like I am. It just is not HIS passion. It is mine. I told him the other day I wanted a garden and a mini van. He asked if I could just get a "virtual garden" and laughed. I told him he was sports cars and condos and I am gardens and mini vans. He denied the condo part but would like to have a lawn service. :o)
3. We have a perfectly fine house in town. I like our house and we have not grown out of it.
4. We do not own the land where I could have much of a garden or animals at this time.
5. It's NICE to be within walking distance of Walmart. We like it.
6. I'm busy. Do I have time to take on something new?
7. What if I did not like it once I got it? I may not like all the outdoor work, or all the work period. Gardens and animals do not grow themselves without help.
To be continued....some day some year.
Looks like a ballerina, but I think it was in reality basketball.
Oh his tippy toes like Daddy!
Studying an engineering book.
He still likes making a mess!
Josh loves the cat, Tuffy, at his grandparent's house. She doesn't love him nearly as much as he loves her.
One of my favorite flowers - daffodils.
Are they hoodlums?
Josh is obsessed with guitars and motorcycles. He thinks Michael's Guitar Hero is a real guitar and that Michael is pretty cool because he can play the guitar. We're hoping he gets all his wildness out before he gets to the teenage years. :o)
Going pretend "night-night" on the guest bed. I
Making bread with Nana. 
Cheese!
Looking out the window at a train going by at Nana and Granddad's house in Missouri.
Mike's mom sent an Easter basket for Josh with chcoclate marshmallow bunnies, Peeps (ick) and a remote control car. The car is posessed. Every time we flip the channel on the tv or adjust the volume or even turn on a light in a room the car makes a sound. 
Easter at my Aunt Carol and Uncle Bill's house close to Nevada, MO. Since I was a little girl we've been going to their house for Easter Sunday. My cousin Kim and I used to ride our bikes to church (uncle Bill is the pastor) sometimes and I got mud on my new dress more than once. 
