Messy Kennedy

Slow Cooker Quinoa White Chicken Chili

Note from Ashley: I am so excited to feature my friend Myla from the Purple Front Door. This week is the first of two posts Myla wrote for me. I am thrilled she decided to share this recipe because I need lots of slow cooker recipes with baby Calli around now. Make sure you check out her blog and you should probably make the wine cork wreath she has up on her blog now I want to thank Ashley for giving me the opportunity to post this yummy recipe here while she is snuggled up with that cute… Read More

I Will Never be Superwoman

Note from Ashley: I have known Abigail and her family since before she had kids. It has been fun to watch her farm and family grow over the years. We got robots a few months after them so it has been easy to keep in touch and have lots to discuss. If you want to follow along with her farm and family you can follow them on their Lemajaru Dairy Farm Facebook Page. I will never be super woman. I do not seem to posses enough arms, eyes, and brains to keep up these days with little ones running around… Read More

4 Things About Science and the People Who Do It

This week will start my guest posts. These friends generously agreed to write posts to help me get through a pretend maternity leave. Well, I had the baby 2 days after I started lining people up. Thank you to my friends who are still helping me out because you are making life so much easier. Dr. Gail Carpenter and I did a lot together in college. Traveled a ton between Dairy Club, Dairy Judging and a trip to Europe When we graduated I decided to head out and get a job, while Gail took the academic route. It has been… Read More

Welcome to the World Calli Marie

The photos were taken by an amazing photographer, Thor from Thor*tgraphy. He loves babies and specializes in newborns. If you are in the Saginaw Valley area I highly recommend him for an in hospital shoot. If you follow me on Facebook, you probably know we had a Christmas miracle welcome our world 5 weeks early. We were blessed with a beautiful, healthy daughter, Calli Marie Kennedy. To say her entry into the world was anything but ordinary would be accurate. The evening of December 19th was just plain odd. I was having trouble sleeping so I stayed up and watched… Read More

I Have a Dream: The Future of the Farm

I have felt like my blog has been majorly lacking in farm talk. It has been hard to write posts when my days consist of my living room. As much as bedrest is making me stir crazy and I am ready to be released from this, we are getting ready to accomplish a huge dream. When my husband and I got married he could have started making a family immediately. For me our fur babies were more than enough for the time being. Fastforward a few years and here we are. If I go full term, we have 4 weeks… Read More

Small Business Charm: Celeste Communications

A note from Ashley: Being a small business owner I love other small businesses. It makes me happy to support someone who is following their dream too. That love inspired me to start this monthly blog series. I decided to call it Small Business Charm. I will feature different small businesses I love or have found through social media. Social media has been a huge part of my life over the past 7 or 8 years and it has introduced me to some of my favorite people in the world but also some of my favorite small businesses. If you would like to… Read More

Gift Ideas for the Rural Woman in your Life

Every year I like to do a post about gift ideas for the lovely rural woman in your life. Whether she is your mother, wife, sister or daughter these gifts are guaranteed to impress. You might ask how do I know? Well, it’s because I would like any of these gifts so that makes it a 99.987765% likelihood you can find something she would like here. If these ideas don’t tickle your fancy, you can see the list I did last year. Duluth Trading Free Swinging Flannel – I love flannel shirts. I wear them as an extra… Read More