Hi! Don't be Shy!

I can feel my life pivoting.

We moved to a new town, I chopped off all my hair, we redone our home. Life changed so fast and so suddenly that it was like something inside of me changed with it. My idea of a good meal changed (although I am still a sucker for a big pot of homemade chicken and dumplings, we eat a mostly Mediterranean Diet and we've all grown to love all the homegrown flavors! Think Southern meets Mediterranean!)

My housekeeping skills changed. I enjoy doing laundry. (Is that weird of me to say? I truly enjoy washing, drying, and folding clothes now. I turn on Gilmore Girls and binge watch while folding.)

There are moments when I think - Did my frontal lobe develop late with all this? Ha!

So I guess I'll fill you in on life lately.

Today we are preparing the gardens. I say gardens because we have my raised beds and the farmer's small field style garden. Soon the garden will be full of greens, we do plan on selling them at our little small town store. But I am so excited to eat a ton! I threw out a bad pumpkin into the backside of the garden yesterday in hopes that I'll have another incident like last Fall where I threw out pumpkins and they grew into large, beautiful pumpkins this Fall!

We are working on the finishing touches for the chicken coop and then it will be time to move everyone in. We have around 14ish chickens now? A ton of roosters. We jokingly asked the boys if we should eat them and unsurprisingly, they said yes and how we could put them in the freezer and eat them in soup this Winter.

I can see that look of horror on your face.

Our little boys have been hunting several times. (But we aren't allowed to go deer hunting with daddy anymore! LOL!) I am not a hunter, but I have no problem with it as long as it is done in a certain way. I don't believe in wasting meat or killing babies. If you kill it, you eat it. Or you find someone else who will eat it. Unless of course the exception where there was something wrong with it.

But our boys are used to seeing pheasant be shot and cleaned then eaten for dinner as pheasant nuggets. Or even a deer being brought in, cleaned, processed then turned into their tacos. It's just something they will know.

I have started homeschooling them this year, I don't care for the school system we are now in & I've wanted to homeschool since before they were even thought of, so it was just a no brainer for me. It's been something I've always wanted for my family. I don't feel like I have anything to prove to anyone. I've had several people question my wishes and one even told me I wasn't smart enough to teach my kids. I began listing off my credentials one night and the farmer said, "You have nothing to prove to anyone. You're smart enough to do this along with everything else you've accomplished in life."

The boys are four now and they missed the cut off for most pre-k programs, but I felt they were ready, so we began with our curriculum. They have done so good learning and recognizing their letters and numbers. At the point we are going we will be finished by March and then we will begin Kindergarten Prep. We have meet ups with friends frequently and the boys adore learning about the world around them. It's so fun to watch them learning.

Last week we learned about the letter "I". As in, "Igloo". They didn't know what an igloo was so I brought out my laptop and we did a whole life lesson on what an igloo was and how to build one and why you would build one. I learned alongside them and it was so amazing to do that.

Ironically enough, their aunt, my little sister, found herself hiking 20 miles in a snowstorm over the weekend. She's quite adventurous in her old age of twenty-six. The first thing that was asked when I showed them photos was - "Why didn't she build an igloo?" To which I replied, "That's valid. Let's ask her." She wasn't thinking much about building igloos I don't think.

Anyway, I hope this post finds you well and that you're having a wonderful day. Please, comment back. I feel like no one reads these things most of the time anymore. Everyone is jumping over to Tiktok and whatever else new things that are available. I'm so old school. My heart is in writing even though I know you all want me to tiktok. Today I got on here to find that I have had 80 new friends come through here within the past month.

Say hi! Don't be shy.

-Lady of the Farm.