The Mother Ranch Blog

My brother Michael is visiting this week! And before he arrived, I asked Brad to measure the grey rug in this little area next to our living room and cut a rug pad to fit. I walked in to find this.....

A post from waaaaay back—March 1, 2014

In my Equine Gestalt Coaching program we’ve been working on our values—toward and away. Toward values are the things we live by, the things that are the most impo...

You know how people on social are always posting, "Tell me you have a (fill in the blank) without telling me!" I have one for you! Tell me you have a 14 year old boy without telling me you have a 14 y...

THE ART: 
 It's finally happened! YAY! I decreased my print prices over on my Etsy shop AND the shipping is still free! For those that have asked, there are a few originals on there now as well, more ...

Do you remember when we first saw our NC house? Back in March of 2021? We fell immediately in love. It was so pretty! And had extravagances we weren't used to!

Remember how when you guys saw the clos...

THE ART:

My sweet friend Mary turned 69 this week! She's back in Colorado so I couldn't celebrate her birthday with her in person darn it. I sent her some prizes and thought you'd like to see—I thoug...

As I was talking about communication in yesterday's post I started thinking about our first experiences in a tandem whitewater canoe. Brad and I met whitewater kayaking—I took him down his first river...

Brad and I are designing a pole barn in our back pasture. We've been talking about it since we moved here but now we are in the serious stage. We're talking to our neighbors, have chosen someone to bu...

Guess what today is?! The very first day, 14 years ago, that I laid eyes and hands on my sweet baby boy in Ethiopia!

I cry every single time I see this photo. 

In the gardens...

My new farm came with a lamp post. I didn't think anything about it until late one night when I looked outside and saw it glowing and was immediately transported into my 8 year old body reading about ...