Author: Lauren

  • Love or Forget It? Chicken Coop Edition

    We built our chicken coop in 2019. It’s now 2023 and we’ve made some renovations. I’ve learned what I love and hate in a chicken coop and I’m going to share with you what those are. Forget It: Droppings Board/Litter Trays: We started with 8 chickens. My coop didn’t take…

  • Dear Anxiety: How You Make me Borrow Troubles

    Dear Anxiety, I’m done borrowing trouble and worry from tomorrow, the next day, the next week, the next month, and the next year. I’m done. Well, I really want to be. Yet, I’m in this cycle of dwelling on what ifs. This week I had two women tell me to…

  • Raising Kids with Animals

    Raising Kids with Animals

    When I was a little girl I had many pets. Bunnies, guinea pigs, fish – two particular 25-cent goldfish lived so long we actually had to move them to a cow water tank when we moved away, cats, dogs, and chickens. I got to see all parts of an animal’s…

  • Favorite Products in October 2023

    Favorite Products in October 2023

    October Skincare Faves: Chicken Coop Faves: Self-Care October Favorites Please read my Tea Lovers Gift Guide for more of my favorites. As an Amazon Associate, I earn from qualifying purchases. Rest assured, I only link to products I love.

  • How Our Hands Tell Part of Our Story

    How Our Hands Tell Part of Our Story

    I have always loved hands because they tell so much. Different Hands, Different Stories You know if someone is a construction worker by looking at their hands. Their hands show all the labor they have done with healing wounds from pulled splinters or cuts from a tool. They are muscular…

  • Silkie Chickens – A Great Addition to Any Flock

    Silkie Chickens – A Great Addition to Any Flock

    When we first got chickens, we got two Silkie chickens and instantly fell in love. They were so friendly and let my then 3-year-old catch them, squeeze them, cuddle them, and love on them. Our black Silkie chicken is still alive and we continue to just love her so much…

  • Summer 2023

    Summer 2023

    I can’t tell you the last time we had a summer, we weren’t doing any vast projects. It’s been a long time, I can tell you that. If I had to choose three words to describe our summer they would be: Here in North Idaho, our summers are amazing. With…

  • Treating and Preventing Mites in Rabbits

    Treating and Preventing Mites in Rabbits

    Pestavert from Small Pet Select Finding Out My Bunnies Had Mites I went out one day to check on our buns, feed and water them, and give them some love. When I petted my oldest bunny, I noticed the hair on the nape of his neck came off easily, and…

  • Dear Anxiety: How Striving Keeps Me Stuck

    Dear Anxiety, Striving keeps me stuck. Stuck in darkness. Stuck in habits. Stuck believing lies about God. Lately, I’ve been realizing what it means to live in God’s love. I have been so stuck striving for a relationship with God forgetting that the Holy Spirit resides in me and He…

  • How I Keep my Hydrangeas from Wilting

    Long story short, I use Alum. You can find it in the baking aisle at your local grocery store. I’ll cut my hydrangeas in the morning before it’s too warm and bring them inside. I then recut them at an angle, dip them in water, then dip them in my…