Life at the Farm

We left Duluth last week and have since been living at the Farm in Cambridge.  The Farm has been in Eli's family for a long time and is a Horn gathering place with lots of room to spread out and play.  The boys love it here and so do we.  We're extremely grateful it's available to us during this two-week interlude before we officially move to Michigan.

One of the highlights of being here: no internet.  Yes, that's a highlight.  It makes it difficult to keep up with emails and other "internet chores" but it's extremely freeing at the same time.  It's forced us to slow down and spend more time watching our kids and their antics.  It's forced us to read a real book rather than skim online articles.  It's forced us to forgo Netflix and actually go to bed on time.  It's simply been good!

There have been several highlights for the boys too, namely new toys to play with and new books to read.  Kai is in love with the train table.  Caleb is in love with Where the Wild Things Are.  And they're both in love with going outside to pick and eat apples from the apple tree.

Highlights for Asa include sleeping and snuggling.  He still likes to sleep most of the time and still likes to be held a lot.  He is smiling a bit more, usually right after nursing, and his smiles make time stand still!  And Asa is doing great with the other boys running around, being showered with affection and sometimes getting smooshed :)  It's as if these boys have always had each other and they seem to like it that way.

Mostly we've enjoyed time outside, whether that's marveling in Grandpa's tractor, going for nature walks, picking dried corn cobs from the fields, or venturing to the lake at the county park nearby.  It's wonderful to spend so much time outside!

And we've finally gotten some photos of all three boys together!  It must be Farm Magic because although we tried to do this before leaving Duluth, it simply did not happen.  Kid #1 wouldn't cooperate and/or Kid #2 would scamper off to do something else.  But we've gotten some decent pictures of these three moose babies together, even if they're only wearing jammies, or nothing at all :)

So all is well as we've stepped into the first of the transitions ahead of us.  Caleb did remark once last week that he doesn't want to go to the Farm and he doesn't want to go to Michigan because he wants to go "to the real house" (meaning our house in Duluth), which broke my heart, but he hasn't mentioned it since and hasn't shown any indication of actually struggling.  So all is well.  And we thank God for that.  He's been gracious and kind and faithful, and we are ever grateful to Him!