Updates

I know I haven't been writing like I want to on my blog. Since summer has begun, I hardly find anytime to do anything I really want. My husband and children come first. Tabitha is doing really well with her school days. We try to get everything done before Grady wakes up, but that is not always possible. Grady is starting to learn numbers, letters and is picking up sign language that Tabitha is learning as her "foriegn language".

For the sign language, I use Signing Time. It give the kids "TV time" once a week while we are on the road to get our weekly milk. Otherwise they do not watch television. Childhood is so short, we feel they need to be using their time to run and play outside with each other (and make friends through the fence, to my dismay).

I am also busy getting our rabbits out for at least 2 hours at a time 2-3 times a day, and keeping their cage clean (every 2 days... 3 rabbits are messy). Since it is so hot lately, they seem to be out more after the sun goes down, because when I get them out during the day all they do is nibble and then plop on their sides and pant. I do sprinle the hose on them sometimes, but they are not too fond of that, though they like running in the sprinkler with the kids.

I am also trying to sew here and there, make soap, crochet, garden, and research more homesteading things, while keeping up with the house chores and making from scratch meals. I am really wondering how wives did everything in the old days, because at the end of they day I am truly worn out. I am blessed when Eric is home on the weekends and helps me out so much, especially with the baking.

Eric seems to love baking and cooking, though I do too, it is he that has inspired me to work on this area. Every weekend we seem to experiment with some new recipe. In the past few months we have made spaghetti, fettucini, and many types of bread.

My newest interest is learning loom sock making. I purchased a loom a couple days ago from Jo-Ann Fabrics (yes, with coupons and discounts, lol - I NEVER buy anything retail, if you know me.) and a ball of sock wool. I have started and gotten 2 rows done, not a lot, but a start. I found wool made in Maine , on Ebay, that I will be making Eric socks from for this winter to help keep him warm and dry, while he goes in and out of houses, making everyones bathroom truly "Luxury".

I have been reading my Bible still every weekday morning. I have a lot of things I would love to write about, but that seems to be on my HUGE to-do list. I keep making note in my notebook, so if I ever get a day to just write and write, I'm sure I'll have many comments left on my Facebook page on that day.

I used to write on my blog after everyone went to bed, but my husband has other plans and expects everyone in the family to go to bed at the same time now, so I am hardly on the computer anymore, except when Grady is taking his afternoon nap on me.

I am truly blessed that I am allowed to stay at home with my children and my husband allows me to dabble in this and that to broaden my horizons.