I think I'm tired- good tired but tired nonetheless  The lady that came to the farm today to interview our family and perform the safety inspection (for our near future hosting through New Horizons for Children) was absolutely lovely.  I was very encouraged by her visit.  I am  happy to report that Carson's biking accident, Greg's unicycle in the driveway, the retelling of my disastrous attempts at building beds yesterday, our off the wall answers to the interview questions nor any of a number of other possible 'well, there ya go's' seemed to stop the train today.  It looks as if we will be moving along to the next stage of this journey next weekend:  orphan hosting training.    Thank you all for your prayers and continued support!  So much love from a tired crew at the farm to you tonight!
~L

This little
FREE
tune is fun encouragement too!
(did I mention it is a FREE download from Amazon?!)

I bought a cheap bouquet of fall colored flowers yesterday at the grocery store without really thinking out the full 'decorating plan'. 

Today, the kids and I went around the house and gathered the surviving Halloween pumpkins and gave them a little Thanksgiving remodel. 

To make the pumpkin vases, hollow out a small pumpkin, shove a (recycled yet clean) ziploc bag in the center, fill with water and flowers (a small potted mum or other such would work great here too) and there ya go! 
*If you add a touch of bleach to the water your cut flowers will last longer.

To make the pumpkin candlesticks, find a little girl with mad hammer skills and let her whack a hole in the center of those hard, little gourd pumpkins.  (Ours were formerly used as wheels on a Cinderella carriage.)

You can see we have a pattern emerging with  Emma and the hammer around here.