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Today as I stay up late just to get a minute to breath, I wonder how in the world I can get it all done in one day! As a homeschool Mom I feel like I am so behind all the time with school and all the housework that never seems to get done! I clean one thing and before I make it to another room it needs to be cleaned again. The same thing goes on outside on our little hobby farm as well. Just when I think I will be able to have a "normal" day the kids run in to tell me something has escapsed, is hurt or is MIA. It is never a dull around here to say the least. On top of it all I have the strongest desire to be more self sufficient which of course means more time spent learning new skills and figuring out how to fit it all in to an already full life. Today I managed to get a few things done off of my "to do" list including fixing our newly installed electric netting fence around the chicken yard and taking the left over sweet potatoes to the compost pile. I also finally went through my magazine piles and organized them so that finding articles will be much easier. Now I just have to go back and pull out all the articles I need to read again. Tomorrow I plan to get up earlier and finally get our school day started as per our schedule and Lord willing get it done! I also need to order some of the supplies we are going to need for our family cow as well as a new waterer for the new chickens. There are 26 of them and they are going through water and feed at an alarming rate! Thank goodness we finally got the fence put up so that I could safely let them out of the coop to free range because they were eating a ton of feed! We had to buy two 50lb bags in the last three weeks. That is not what I expected but hopefully they will slow down a little now that they have bugs and pasture to eat too. They do not seem to like going out quite as much as our bantams and laying hens but I think they will like it more as the temps cool down. It has still been in the 90's so I can understand their reluctance to be out in the sun. It is all I can do to hang out the laundry! So, how am I going to school three children, milk a cow(coming home in Oct) and two goats (coming later this fall), care for 35 various chickens, take care of a garden, clean house, wash laundry, bake homemade bread, make various cheeses, yogurt, and kefir plus can veggies, mow grass, take care of flower beds too big to keep up with, plus grochery shop, meal plan, research how to do all the things I don't know how to do, pay bills and make budgets and so much more? I know that if I would just organize everything better and not try to do things as they come up it all would go a lot more easily but I have such a hard time remembering everything that making a list means I forget half of what I need to do. Plus seeing it all on paper is very overwhelming! I must remember though that with God all things are possible even if it seems as if there is no logical way to get it done. I know that with Him I can do anything I just need to remember that I am working on His time and not mine so all things will be done as He sees fit. Maybe tomorrow he will allow me to finally get an entire school day finished without having to skip anything! Only He knows but I can always hope! Tomorrow I may even get through a whole day without the kids running in yelling "Moooommmm...._____(fill in the blank with some animal) is stuck/loose/bleeding/missing and we need you (code for we could take care of it ourselves but we have a flair for the dramatic and really need you to share in our drama right now because we sensed that you were actually getting something done)! It could happen but then again living La Vida Loca is a blessing and I really do love it. After all that is why we moved to the country in the first place, now I just gotta roll with it! Keep it comin!
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