I love getting mail!!

** I wrote this on March 11th, almost 2 weeks ago, saved it (meaning to add pics later), started getting the house ready for an open house, and totally forgot about posting it...until now

At least I love getting mail when its 40 degrees and sunny and there's good news involved. I'm not sure if I was more excited to get outside, or to open the mail and find info about Mary Kay's new Spring line AND a letter telling us the land we own is officially designated as farmland!!

I love my business, have I mentioned that before? I love it because it comes with endless amounts of free knowledge and inspiration. Yesterday was the first day I could order next quarter's new products, and I had already seen them, been given great ideas on how to show them, market them, and sell them. All from other Mary Kay consultants and directors, most of whom gain nothing financially from helping me out. I am really excited to be working my business, February was a great month for me, and I know I need to keep on pushing to make March even better, and April even better yet. The money is much needed, but what I need more is to feel successful and feel like I contribute as more than just a maid and a nanny!

And I need to be able to spend more time outside on our "farm"!! After going out to check the mail, I realized I hadn't taken a single picture of our house from the outside since before we moved in on November 21st. So I grabbed the camera and my boots and went out to take pictures before Connor woke up from his nap. I took a few of the house, then headed down to the pond. I could see from the house that it was getting fuller and bigger..but WOW! I hadn't realized just how big it had gotten!!

Then I discovered why it had grown so much in the last 3 weeks... there is a small river flowing into the pond under the snow and the ice! Walking to the pond I could hear (and feel) what seemed to be ice cracking under the snow. On my way back I found a hole about twice the size of my foot that had water in it.

I looked closer and realized the water was flowing through it from the woods down toward the pond. The farm kid instincts kicked in and I started digging through the snow with my foot to try to follow the river, breaking through the ice occasionally to see how much water there really was. It just felt great to be outside, playing in the snow and ice, and the farm kid inside of me yelling "I really own a farm!!" (Granted that 'farm' is less than 4 acres and includes a wetland designation, which I'm guessing is about 3.5 acres!!)

I am really looking forward to actually being able to use our yard this summer, and hopefully some of this spring. I have huge ideas for a vegetable garden, I've got tulip bulbs that need to get in the ground this week, and there are numerous other landscaping projects I could dream up using the boulders thy pulled out of the swamp less than a year ago.