What's in a name?

When I first began blogging, I wanted to think of a name for my blog which captured our home. For me, as a stay at home, homeschooling mom... home is the hub that the rest of life revolves around. Home is my workplace, my vacation and relaxation spot, my recreation area, and my refuge.

 Home is important to me.

So I choose the name Woodstone Prairie for that first blog (and my other blogs since then). The word woodstone comes from the petrified wood that is so easily found on our land. We have found dozens of pieces of it since moving here about a year ago. We have a fireplace in our house made entirely of petrified wood that was found when they dug the foundation for our house (back in 1977). 

Woodstone also represents the house itself. It's a log home that we are working to repair and restore after it was sadly neglected for many years.

The second part of the name Woodstone Prairie is easy. We live on five acres of never-worked prairie in Colorado. Except for being drier, this land looks much the same as it did 100, 200, even 500 years ago. Deer, coyote and foxes are frequent visitors as are eagles, hawks, and many other smaller creatures.

 

 So that's what's in the name...