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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.

getting them trained

January 7th, 2008 at 04:57 am

DD3 had a youth group bowling party tonight. She had to borrow money off of DD5 to go. I noticed 2 interesting things this evening:

DD5 told DD3 that when she pays her back, she owes her $4.25. She is charging her sister 25 cents interest....
And
DD3 bought no snacks with her money. She ate before she went and after she got home. I saw her looking at the snack bar, and the look on her face when she saw that a small drink was $2 was priceless. Instead, she went to the water fountain!!

For $5 she got to bowl for 2 1/2 hours. Her sisters and I read and watched her. She had fun. I also clipped my Sunday coupons and sorted them into my envelopes.

Still no bidders on my ebay auction. Its some school uniform peices--brand new. Got lost when we moved and just resurfaced. I wish they still had the tags on them--if they did, I'd return them to the store.

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6 Responses to “getting them trained”

Ralph Says:
January 7th, 2008 at 09:08 am 1199696918
1199696918

Wayto go, love the bug eyes at the snack bar thing! I think my youngest gets it. And I'm proud of my oldest for spending very little from her bank account at college. Now if I could only curb their appetite for clothes!
Ralph Says:
January 7th, 2008 at 09:08 am 1199696937
1199696937

Way to go, love the wide open eyes at the snack bar thing! I think my youngest gets it. And I'm proud of my oldest for spending very little from her bank account at college. Now if I could only curb their appetite for clothes!
Oops, double post, delete me please!
Broken Arrow Says:
January 7th, 2008 at 02:35 pm 1199716541
1199716541

Sooo, exactly how many DDs do you have?
mom-from-missouri Says:
January 7th, 2008 at 08:02 pm 1199736150
1199736150

We have 5. That includes, a 20 yr old set of twins, an 11 year old, and a 9 year old set of twins.

Then we also have a 9 year old who is the daughter of a 2nd cousin of mine at times. Her mom seems to have trouble getting her act together beause "shes in love" (trouble is she is married to someone else...) That kid has really suffered. She is 2 grades behind in school as a result, so when we get her, we really try and work with her. She is a smart kid, and she knows what is going on.
Broken Arrow Says:
January 7th, 2008 at 08:20 pm 1199737214
1199737214

Wow.
mom-from-missouri Says:
January 7th, 2008 at 08:32 pm 1199737923
1199737923

We have 4 bathrooms in the house, plus one in the barn for DH and one in the camper. So, it works well!!

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