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About Me:

In 2006 I quit my city job of 20+ years to remarry, move and become a "farm wife". For the most part, I am a stay at home mom.

As of the 2007 school year, we are a homeschooling family.

We also farm. Our farms include a large garden, haying, horses, cows, geese, chickens, ducks, pigs, rabbits, 2 stocked ponds, small vineyard and an orchard.

We live at the main farm (the one with the animals) and our other farm is currently growing hay, nuts and firewood to harvest this fall.
In the spring we will be adding sheep, and turkeys.

We have 5 daughters, (including 2 sets of twins) 3 who are still at home.

I love to camp, travel, garden, fish, bake, do needlework, sew, genealogy and ride horses. One of my favorite places to travel to is Northern Indiana (LaGrange county), where I have Amish cousins and to learn about my ancestors.

My goal is to help this family stay on track financially and to stay out of debt, other than our mortgage.

I think I have them trained......

November 8th, 2007 at 07:19 pm

I think I finally have made it through the chore roatation twice now. I think I can say each of my children now know how to do laundry, clean house, do the chores on the farm, basic sewing, and have some frugal shopping skills. We will continue to work on these skills daily to refine them, but I feel they each have the basics down good.

I haven't been outside yet, it looks bitterly cold. But according to the therm. on the south deck, its in the mid 60's. The heat is on 63 and it has never kicked in.

The girls are working on their schoolwork right now, so this is my computer time. I've been working on my "how I" article. I have been rather impressed with what I have read so far.

I don't think I will cook supper tonight. We have leftovers of ham and beans, potato soup, 1 hamburger from grilling out Sunday, 2 slices of pizza, 4 porkchops, small amount of chili, and a small amout salad. What doesn't get eaten today and tonight, will go to the freezer. DH is working tonight-a long shift, so hopefully he will take 2 meals worth of leftovers with him.

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3 Responses to “I think I have them trained......”

annab Says:
November 9th, 2007 at 04:09 am 1194581355
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That sounds so cool, what you're teaching the kids. I always thought (if I had kids) that I'd want them to learn how to cook, sew, grow a garden, build some stuff (not sure what, lol) -- just so they could be more self-sufficient. Sadly, I don't really know how to do any of this stuff myself! :P
mom-from-missouri Says:
November 9th, 2007 at 05:21 am 1194585689
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I was impressed with the 9 year olds today. One was doing her laundry and didn't quite have a full load, so she asked her sisters if they had any to add, because "Momma said always do full loads". Of course later, they had an argument over who had to fold what...
annab Says:
November 10th, 2007 at 10:47 pm 1194734859
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that's so cute!

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