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And than the light bulb goes on.....
2015 dawns bright and cheery, clear brain, new ideas, and a New Year!
With 8 children, 2 adults, and red mud, and 'old Macdonald Farming. There tends to be a lot of laundry, tons of food to cook, and endless mounds of work and just constant filthy toilets! See I told you it is endless!
Brainstorm #1. Two oldest girls - two jobs.
Job #1 Baking bread/Cooking
Job #2 Laundry.
They take the job by the week and swap off after 7 days. The girls each have a younger child to help them with their job.
Brainstorm #2. He who pees the toilet seat, cleans it. (If you can catch it/them) (IT WORKED!!!, don't think I will have same child wet the toilet seat again- he is terrified of working)
It really has been working! I am able to clean up the kitchen, sweep floors, and rock the baby without guilt. And Kayla has been able to play on her new Cricut ;) I know.... we aren't 30 days into the New Year, but it feels good enough that hopefully we will be able to form a new-GOOD habit! And the house has a long ways to go to become organized since I am better at reading the blogs written about how to organize than actually do it myself! But hey... I am trying!
And should I mention that the majority of our clothes are dried on racks by the Wood Cookstove rather than the drier, since we live at the Windy-est spot in Campbell County! And hanging laundry out on a pulley line only asked for them to be whisked off out in the red mud and maybe seen flying over the fence-
And now off to rock the baby back to sleep~
Where the whippoorwills sing and Hoot owls hollor,
Tuesday, January 6, 2015
Friday, January 2, 2015
Four days has seemed more like 4 yrs.
Today has been a rather tough one. Not only do I have two sick children, one of which came close to being hospitalized yesterday for bronchiolitis (Jesse 9 months). Worrying and fretting over him doesn't even come close to the pain I have felt missing Austin. Despite the struggles we had with him, and the peace we have with putting him at Allegany Boys Camp. With that comes extreme anguish, pain, and nausea like you never figured. The house is quiet. The table is empty. The van feels like I forgot somebody at home. We have to carry wood in to the house. Their is a vacant bed. It just doesn't feel right. Kayla had a letter in the mail to him the day he was placed. Cheyenne wrote one yesterday... We do miss him terribly. And 14-22 months looks like an eternity! I am sure we will be living for those 'every 6 wk." visits.
Now it is our time to work on the aches and pains we have, feelings we need to work through, hearts that need healed. Learning to trust again, and to love unconditionally!
Till next time~
Now it is our time to work on the aches and pains we have, feelings we need to work through, hearts that need healed. Learning to trust again, and to love unconditionally!
Till next time~
2014 was sent out slaughtering a hog
Not at all a bad thing to send out the old and bring in the new on!
And we are finished with our one and only hog slaughtering for the year. Me being sick-very sick with a virus left Wayne, Kayla, Cheyenne and Grandma cutting/deboning meat. It was a large/HUGE hog! (It buried the 440 lb. scale live weight)Today Wayne and Kayla screened 24 1/2 quarts of lard. We are splitting it with Mom. I was thrilled for the lard since I am down to 1 quart. That is all I use in my bread anymore, and also my pie crusts. I don't know what I would do without it.
Last year we slaughtered 8 hogs... so this is feeling like "A walk in the park" ;) With the sickness and traveling, I don't think we could have handled more than one. It's been a tough winter for us already. I think the Drs. could tell you too that we haven't had sick visits like this in 4 yrs. *sigh* and believe me, my child has to be sick to take them to the Doctor. Carrie had terrible ear ache, but I am still buying some more time, with garlic drops.. and I think it is paying off, today she was feeling a little better~ hoping for the continued up hill swing!
Wayne had off work today, which has been wonderful, I still haven't felt back to myself from this virus. It took me down, fast and hard. Just cooking supper tonight exhausted me. Since everybody was out choring, I fixed Stromboli and Tossed salad for supper- they were thrilled to come in to a warm supper sitting on the table waiting. With the cow to milk and 6 calves to feed, it takes the whole crew out there to get it done in an hour. But hey, it makes for some healthy appetites ;]
Well, must go get my fussy little one tucked down in his nest for the night...
Till next time~
And we are finished with our one and only hog slaughtering for the year. Me being sick-very sick with a virus left Wayne, Kayla, Cheyenne and Grandma cutting/deboning meat. It was a large/HUGE hog! (It buried the 440 lb. scale live weight)Today Wayne and Kayla screened 24 1/2 quarts of lard. We are splitting it with Mom. I was thrilled for the lard since I am down to 1 quart. That is all I use in my bread anymore, and also my pie crusts. I don't know what I would do without it.
Last year we slaughtered 8 hogs... so this is feeling like "A walk in the park" ;) With the sickness and traveling, I don't think we could have handled more than one. It's been a tough winter for us already. I think the Drs. could tell you too that we haven't had sick visits like this in 4 yrs. *sigh* and believe me, my child has to be sick to take them to the Doctor. Carrie had terrible ear ache, but I am still buying some more time, with garlic drops.. and I think it is paying off, today she was feeling a little better~ hoping for the continued up hill swing!
Wayne had off work today, which has been wonderful, I still haven't felt back to myself from this virus. It took me down, fast and hard. Just cooking supper tonight exhausted me. Since everybody was out choring, I fixed Stromboli and Tossed salad for supper- they were thrilled to come in to a warm supper sitting on the table waiting. With the cow to milk and 6 calves to feed, it takes the whole crew out there to get it done in an hour. But hey, it makes for some healthy appetites ;]
Well, must go get my fussy little one tucked down in his nest for the night...
Till next time~
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