Chapter 1 ~ A Day In May
Our Second Year at Baggebo Homestead, May 2024
Home by The Beech Trees - Our Second Year is the story of a small family faced with the big responsibilities of keeping their 100 year old farmhouse warm and safe for their second winter while slowly starting a homestead to nurture their growing family.
The book is the second book in the series Home by The Beech Trees by Anne of Baggebo.
If you found yourself strolling up the road in front of our farmhouse one morning in May, you would have been met by the scent of the blooming lilacs in our garden and the sound of laughter coming from the furthest open window in our home.
The sun would be rising and shy rays would be shining upon the bath scene of a little girl, playing with bubbles in the warm water.
The birds would have begun their chipper from the crab apple tree in the garden. I could hear them clearly from my place on the bench beside the bathtub. My daughter would be babbling happily away, as she had just figured out that she could get a response by calling out to her mother or h…