Through our day, and some questions answered....

Cathy asked :

**I was wondering since so many are interested in your family,

would you mind sharing a typical day for you all?**

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Although no day is the same in our home, we do have a basic routine that we try to follow. 

So, here is our day, yesterday....

Fall colors.

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This is the day which the LORD hath made; we will rejoice and be glad in it

~Psalm 118:24~

It was chilly, so we started a fire in the wood stove.

Breakfast: 7:30, everyone is up and dressed, ready for the day.

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We usually have oatmeal or granola on week days and then pancakes and eggs, or sausage, eggs, and toast/muffins on the weekends.

After breakfast everyone has chores.

Washing the breakfast dishes.

The boys head out to feed the animals.

The happy chickens.

We gals clean up and hang out the laundry.

Napkins, hanging on the drying rack.

We washed the oil lamp globes and they looked so pretty, all sparkling.

We made another big batch of maple/pecan granola.

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Mama's desk.

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After it's school time for all the littles and Chubb.

More good books to read.

Around the table.

Celeisa.

Aimaija.

~Sewing~

I worked on a new dress for Sophia.

Pictures to come, I promise!

Claire was so sweet and came by to drop of the gift of a basket, filled with the makings of this, one of our all time favorite things to eat.

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~ ~Lunchtime~

Afternoon:

Everyone headed outside to play.

Chubb and Nicholai have been working on a playhouse they are building.

Chubb.

In the afternoon we make a big pot of tea and someone whips up a cake or cookies to go with it.

We pull out some good books and curl up on the couches and chairs to read and sip tea.

Everyone spent the afternoon working, playing in dolls houses, reading, drawing, or working on whatever is the latest project.

Around 5:00 we start getting ready for Dad to come home and we begin to get dinner ready.

Tonight we made pasta, with a sauce that involved lots of fresh herbs, garlic, pepper, butter, chicken broth and lots of other good stuff.

With fresh bread and a green salad, this is a delicious meal.

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After dinner we clean up, wash dishes and then read, talk, or if it's nice out go for a walk or something.

The little are all in bed by 8:00-8:30 and then we older ones ( and Mom and Dad), might watch a movie or just read until we head to bed.

Some good films we recently watched were: 

Heartland.

About a woman who goes to live/work on a ranch in Wyoming.

Food, Inc.

( don't eat while watching!) 

About our nations food industry. It's very interesting.

Wesley (after watching it) said, "It makes you want to go out and raise all your own meat and grow all your own produce".

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P.s We did make that Baked Brie, and it was every bit as good as we thought it would be :)

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~Questions~

Although I try to answer questions as they come ( in the comment section ), it seems that there are some that I overlooked, by mistake.

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So, I thought that I would just answer them here.

Random sketching.

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Katy said...

**I am curious if you have been drawing much lately. I have seen some of your art in your mama's posts from previous times**

Pages from my journal.

The answer is yes, I do draw, but not a whole lot- definitely not as much as I used to.

I do a lot of costume design sketching though ...

Cathy said....

** Do you ever wear your hair down?**

Yes, sometimes, but I prefer to wear it up- I like how it looks and it keeps it out of the way :)

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**Do you all use the oil lamps just to enjoy or for saving electricity? **

Honeypot glow lamps.

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Well, we do like to save electricity, and the oil lamps do work well when the power goes out during storms :)

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But we find that oil lamps and candles add a peaceful and relaxing atmosphere to our home 

(which is why we like to play relaxing instrumental music in our home as well), and so we make a point of using them quite often.

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Thanks so much for all your kind comments and notes, it is so wonderful to hear from each and everyone of you, we all so enjoy it.

Please let me know if anyone had an un-answered question that I missed, so no one is left out.