My Crazy Life Schedule

I have been meaning to blog about my crazy life these days, but as I have a limited amount of time right now, I'll give a basic rundown of our day!

4:30 am
Jonathan's alarm goes off, he gets up to go milk our 3 goats

5:30 am
Jonathan kisses me goodbye, and says I need to wake up and feed the girls

6:30 am
Heather wakes up

7:00am
Go to the bathroom in the outhouse

Grab a white bucket from the kitchen, walk outside, fill it from our black barrels, and set it inside by the kitchen sink

Go out to the stove, and see if I've let the fire go out, or if I just need to restock it (we stock it the night before.......but I often forget to....hee hee!)

Get the fire going (if I have wood), or plan on cereal (if we are out)

Grab the girls' bottles, a funnel, and milk from the fridge. Fill the bottles. I WAS warming them in a water pot on the stove, but now that it so hot, the girls are bigger, and we only have two instead of 4 kids, I just give it to them at room temperature. So....leave the milk on the counter while I start breakfast.

8:00am
Boys wake up

Start breakfast on the stove

Diaper up/dress the boys

Grab the girls' milk, and the dipes, and head out to the wash room. Rinse the dipes, and put them in the wet pail. Go to the kids' stall, and feed the goats.

Check on breakfast, and eat with the boys

9:00 am
Wash dishes and milking pail, and girls' bottles with the water bucket from the barrel

Head outside to start other chores (feed & water chicks, Feed and water calf, feed and waters Sebastian our dog, feed and water Kitties, and head to chicken coop to feed and water them)

10:30
Chores are done, time to stock the fire/prepare for lunch!

11:30
Put lunch on and eat it

12:30/1:00
Put kids down for a nap

Check on animals to make sure they have sufficient water for the heat

Bucket in water, and wash lunch dishes

3:00
Boys wake up from naps

This is around the time that we usually do something recreational: Water fight, garden weeding, book reading, laundry, playing with toys, etc

5:00
This is when I *TRY* to get an idea of what's for dinner, and make sure the fire is stocked for it. I make sure everything is ready for Jon to milk as soon as he walks in the door

6:00
Start Dinner

Jonny gets home and goes out to milk

Bring in water bucket for milk/dinner washing

6:30/7:00
Eat dinner

Wash dishes

Jonny goes out to do nighttime chores: Feed goats, water goats, shoot rats out in the chicken coop, cut wood for Heather, check on steers out to pasture/woods, etc.

9:00
Get boys ready for bed/Devotions

9:30
Put boys down for bed

Make sure the fire is stocked/shut down (dampers shut so the wood burns super slow)

Get ready for bed/take baths*

*For baths, we bucket in 4 buckets of cold water, and dump them in the tub. Then, we bring one big pot of boiling hot water from the stove, and dump that in. It makes it the PERFECT temperature for a bath :)

10:00/10:30
Go to bed!

A couple more house pictures..

Our living room support "beam"(and Jason climbing it...)



Our Hot water pots. Pots stay on the stove full-time, and supply us with hot water for whatever we need (Bath's, hand-washing, dish-washing, etc). We actually gave these back to the Molner's, and we have 3 of our own on the stove now :)

But, this is our wood stove! It has the firewood compartment on the left, the oven in the middle, and the hot water reservoir on the right. I forgot how many gallons it holds, but its alot! This plus the hot water in the stove pots are enough for any emergency or hot water need.
The whole top is the "stove". Put things on the left, and you have turned them on "hight". Inch your pot/pan to the right, and you will lower the temperature. See, its not that hard!! ;)

Also, the warming shelf above is great for keeping pancakes warm, or keeping dinner warm while we finish chores, etc. This also works good for warming our "rice socks" (mama's warm rice bundles).

The wood nobs on the side are the side "dampers", and there is a back "damper" that keeps the smoke contained in the stove to "turn the oven on". It makes the heat stay IN the stove, if that makes sense.


Here is our perculator (I don't know how to spell it...). Its our coffee maker! I'm glad for Grandpa Billy's instructions on how to work it while up hunting. I guess we are just on one BIG CAMPING TRIP!

Boots

So Tyler found some huge rubber boots that were the Molner boys'...

Micah Walking

Well, Micah started walking on June 5th :) He is walking everywhere now, and its so much fun! I cannot believe he is almost 1 year old!!

Some pictures from our new house

I have some pictures, but I guess I have lots that need to be "flipped" first, so bear with me as I post when and what I can.

Our Older goats, Rhubarb & Raspberry (we are keeping Raspberry)...they are both girls :)

Here are our second set of "girls", Cinnamon & Chai (we will be keeping Chai too)

Here is our source of drinking water! We take this big thing to the well to fill it up, then bring it to the island counter for use. Oh, and that cute baby...He's mine ;)

Turtle

This is a cute turtle we found at the Fuqua Farmhouse...it was so much fun to play with him, and we let him go the next day. What a fun experience for the boys!! :)