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Sep. 2, 2007
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Imparting wisdom of sorts
I tell ya, this week has just been crazy! I have been accomplishing a lot, however, so I shouldn't feel so bad. My children have tested the limits, and I have overcome them, hopefully. Who knows, maybe they'll look back and say the dreaded, "You were the worst mother" but I have wishful thinking employed and hold out hope that they will have children twice as naughty as they were, so they can come back and ask, 'Was I THAT bad?' instead!
This week, I have canned, cleaned, landscaped, and played chemist. My chickens are now getting a good allotment of calcium to fortify their egg shells, and a healthy serving of kitchen scraps. I am going to take my cousin's advice and give them ground up egg shells in their food, too. The more the better, right? lol!
As for preserving, I have canned 21 pints of green beans, 8 pints of pickles (not enough, I know), and about 40-60 jars of miscellaneous jams and fruits and such. I think it's so important to teach our daughters the 'old ways' for so many reasons. Since my kids are home schooled, they are learning more than they know just by watching me carry on traditions. They are learning by example of what good mamma's do and say. My daughter, who is 12 now, is so close to being a woman that it scares me, especially since I'm only 30. Yikes! I don't feel that I have given her at all what she needs to take on the world in 6 more short years, but I see her blooming into this thoughtful, contemplative, intelligent woman every day, and it scares the daylights out of me! I tell them all the time, You are so much smarter than I was at your age! and they agree! lol! Being single also makes me feel like less of a parent sometimes. Maybe I'm trying to take on too much? The Bible says that we're supposed to give our children a yoke in their youth - I don't remember where it says that...Proverbs maybe? But I agree! I have watched parents say that they don't want their children to do any chores or work, and most (not all) have turned out to be lazy freeloaders for adults. It's so important that we teach them the way they should go NOW so they won't depart from it in the future.
anyway, the relish is done being processed, so I had better get a move on. I still have peaches and piccalili to do. (sigh) The phrase is so true! A woman's work is never done! |
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