Country Living

There is a certain peace and tranquility that can only be found in the country.  Maybe I should go as far as to say there is a certain peace and tranquility that can only be found in the back-roads living in Middle Tennessee. 

 

 

We are now the proud, humbled, and grateful owners of a small part of this beautiful Middle Tennessee countryside. 

 

After a few years of chatter and endless searching for the "perfect" place to plant our roots, we've finally found it.  Or maybe it found us, who really knows?  Either way, this former pasture will be our future home. 

 

After many years of subdivision-living, we've decided to uproot everything that has become our normal and build a home in the country. Maybe we've lost our minds, time will tell. 

 

For now, we will just sketch and plan and pray for the right design for our house.

Summer Saturday Morning

Our Saturday mornings used to be filled with early risers, Disney Channel characters, rec soccer games, pancakes in the shape of Star Wars favorites with chocolate chip eyes, and cups full of the not-so-quietly begged for chocolate milk. For years, the idea of a quiet, simple Saturday morning breakfast date never entered the realm of our reality. It seems that we have evolved into a new reality. A reality where teenage boys cherish their sleep more than time with dad and mom, a reality where if we wake up early and a trip to the local outdoor market seems like a good idea, that's exactly what we do.

On a most recent summer Saturday we found ourselves browsing the booths of the Franklin Farmers Market

taking in the gorgeous labor of our local farms and craftsmen. The fragrance of the handmade soaps and candles, the music, the flowers, the vegetables and fruits all whisper summer in Tennessee.

We ventured to a small coffee shop there at the market and enjoyed a fresh roasted pour over and a Honey, Pistachio, Orange paleo crusher from a family-owned bakery I have heard so much about lately. The sweet souls who own Five Daughters Bakery were so kind. Their goods looked amazing and the donut I chose was absolutely divine. They call them "Paleo Crushers" because they are grain-free, sugar-free, and dairy-free but they are definitely not flavor-free. Even B, the skeptic, was amazed.





It was worth every single sweltering-heat-with-humidity-for-days second for a Saturday morning escape with my husband.