Everyday Joys

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For The Love of Coffee was originally published on the Townbroadcast on August 16, 2022.  You can read it from the link on my website...

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August 2022 Everyday Joys Post (denisedykstra.net)

Tell me, how do YOU take your coffee?  

August 9, 2022

Today on this episode, we have my husband Jake Dykstra joining us.  I'll read to you the article that was originally published over at The Town Broadcast and then Jake joins me for an interview.  Want to know about his garden?  He tell you ALL about it here. 

I'll link the blog with all the extra photos and youtube links.  You'll want to check it out. 

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And don't forget, you can catch up on all the past episodes at my website

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We met with some new friends this past weekend and were talking about our families.  “Wait, four boys? You have FOUR boys?” one asked.

Yes.

And look, still surviving it all.

As it is the week of Mother’s Day, I thought I would attempt to share with you a brief look at what it has been like raising four boys.

It was harder to sum it up than I expected it to be.  There is so much to say, how do I fit it all in one column?

Here is my secret to raising boys:  I didn’t know what I was doing, I missed the class on how to raise them, so I just kept learning as I went along.

When someone asks me how on earth I survived raising four boys, I can tell you that I honestly don’t know.  I was too tired to take notes (although, I did blog a lot about our adventures when they were little).  I was legit learning as I went.  I failed a lot.  It helped greatly that God gave me my amazing mom to help me when I became a new mom myself (thank you!).  It also helped that God gave me this absolute adoration for being these boys’ mom.

You can read the entire post and see all the photos (you want to see the photos!) on my website... https://denisedykstra.net

The link right to the article is found here - https://denisedykstra.net/f/may-2022-everyday-joy-posts

You can read the original Town Broadcast article here :

Thank you so much for letting me read every weekly column to you! 

I have a thing about front porches.  I can’t help but notice them as I drive by them.  I have been known to send people a note saying, “I just want you to know, your front porch is adorable.  Great work on that!”

If you ask my youngest son, he has some ideas for our front porch.  He tells me how we need to build out the porch, wrap it around the house to include our large front window, extend it over to the “porch room”, and make sure we lay it with the deck boards that will never go bad.  We need to have the porch braced up with some big wooden pillars, we can even use rocks if I insist, and a railing might be nice too.

Abe is for hire if you need to dream up your front porch, back porch, or backyard fish pond.

While I like his ideas a lot, he seriously has a talent with this sort of thing, that really wasn’t going to happen in a day.

On our one beautiful, felt-as-if-summer-had-arrived-day we had this past weekend, Abe and I worked on redecorating the front porch.

My great regret is that I took zero photos before and after.

Our front porch is a bit of an anomaly.

You can see ALL the pictures (I added way more than needed!) on my website here :

https://denisedykstra.net/town-broadcast-columns/f/april-2022-everyday-joy-posts

You can read the original article here on the Town Broadcast

https://townbroadcast.com/?p=49549

And here is the original Instagram post.