About Me

Two years ago I quit my job of 20 years to remarry, move and become a "farm wife". For the most part, I am now a stay at home mom (with the exception of a few temp. odd jobs and sub teaching here and there).

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

We also farm. Our farms include a large garden, haying, horses, cows, geese, chickens, ducks, rabbits, 2 stocked ponds, small vinyard 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, pigs 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, genelogy 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.

Been sick

February 20th, 2008 at 10:15 am

Thursday we were around someone who was sick (they got the flu on Friday). So Sunday afternoon, we all started dropping like flies. Raw throat, sore back, chest congestion and ear aches. The whole house has it except for DH-who was the only one who got the flu shot (his work requires it due to the nature of his job). I think this fall the rest of us will also get the flu shot.

On the upside, since we are pinned in sick, we have had 2 no spend days this week.

DH has been doing the cooking and is doing a good job of cleaning out the deepfreezes. He found some ribs and BBQ them, and also made some ham and beans.

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2 Responses to “Been sick”

littlemama Says:
February 20th, 2008 at 10:47 am

Sorry everone's sick. Hope yall feel better soon.

Ham and beans. Yummy comfort food.
My English Castle Says:
February 20th, 2008 at 08:06 pm

My sympathies. We've been struggling with it too--and my flu shot didn't help me a bit. I read something about how they didn't do a good job aligning the current viruses with the shots this year, so I suspect that's what got me. But we've all had it over a week now.
Take it easy and get lots of sleep.

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