I thought it might be fun to blog about, "the days of our lives" around here and have a journal of sorts.
So far today I have done chores; feeding the 45 or so meat birds and letting them out to range for the day, feeding the goats and milking three them, giving the milk to the calf we bought last month, and feeding the dogs and cats. Then came in for breakfast. I had a cup of coffee and a pancake.
My 15 year old son, Randy, made everyone pancakes for breakfast, he is the "breakfast boy" as we call him, except on weekends.
Made sure the little kids were dressed, my three little ones are a 5 year old daughter Miriam, 3 year old daughter, Elizabeth, and a 1 one year old son, Micheal. Some days my 16 year old daughter, Alyshia, does this but she has a babysitting job Thursdays and Fridays.
Did some "work", I have an at home office that I run to help out some friends of ours with a small business. It works out pretty well since it is a work at home job but gives us some money that we put on our home because we have a goal of paying it off in a year. Sometimes it is an annoyance though, if I am having to work and things around the home and farm are not getting done and everything seems chaos, those are the days I want to quit. Then other days are like today when I have some spare time, of course in the fall things start to slow down as far as "homesteading" is concerned. I will likely quit after the house is paid of so I can put all my efforts into the home and homestead.
Lets see, I straightened up the kitchen, checked my emails and set up this blog.
Later I hope to do more housekeeping and do my home school planning for next week and tracking for this past week. Then make spaghetti for dinner.
Most night after dinner the oldest kids do chores and after they bring in the milk Rob runs it through the cream separator to get the cream and takes the skimmed milk back out to the calf. I use the cream for butter and my morning coffee.
"Homestead" Projects going on right now -
Raising Meat Birds
Raising Calf
Milking Goats
Saving Cream
Making Plum ketchup; Yeah, that raises eyebrows but it is great on pork
"Homestead" Projects recently finished -
Made Plum Syrup
Dried Plums
Made Plum Jam
Cleaned out the garden, only the carrots are left
Tomorrow is Ag Appreciation Day and my husband, Rob, will be driving a tractor from work in the parade and Miriam will be with him. Later we need to disbud the calf and give him a booster shot.
Ramblings about what goes on around here.
I am a Christian homeschooling mom of five, we live on 6 acres with Nubian dairy goats, chickens, a garden, and various other critters.
