Candy is having a "pictures of my palace" gallery this week.  It sounded fun, so I snapped several pictures for everyone to see.  Welcome to My Home. 

This is the front door of my home. Our house is about 1600 sq. feet.  We have two bedrooms and one small bathroom.  When I have my whole crew. The littlest 3 sleep in their room.  My older 4 children sleep in the living room in sleeping bags.  When we have 7 children here at one time, it is a little crowdeed, especially when waiting for the bathroom.  Someone is always waiting to go.  I love having everyone here.  It is a warm and cozy house!  While it is not grand by any means, I love this house and I never want to leave.

 If you were stopping by my home, you would smell something delicious cooking. Tonight we are having Haystacks(recipe is a few posts back) and homemade banana bread.  We normally eat around 6pm.  However, I am used to cooking for an army, so should you be here around dinner, you would of course be asked to stay and eat with us.  There's always room for one more.

This is the front door of my house.  The door to the right is a coat closet and one that we use for storage.  The bookshelf to the left is mine. 

If you were to come in the front door here is what you would see.  The bookshelf holds my dh books.  We really love books!

This is my very UNTIDY sewing area.  It sits beside my bookshelf. I love sewing there because I can look out on our pretty front yard.

On down past my sewing area is our beautiful shelf that Dh brother made for us!  In the middle, you will see my dh inkwell collection.  Most of them are antiques.

Another look at our living room.  The big chest you see was made by my great-great grandfather by hand.  It is a beautiful cedar chest.  It holds all of my sheets, towels, & linens.

Here is my rocking chair where I rock my littlest one before bed.

I just love our fireplace.  We have a woodstove in it instead of a regular fireplace.  We use it alot during cold winter weather. 

Here is our hand-me-down couch.  I don't believe we have ever had a new one.  I do like it...at least the colors match.  You'll notice two baskets of clothes I folded today. You can also see the sliding glass doors that go out onto our covered back porch.

Next is our very small but pretty bathroom.

Next is our kitchen.  At any given time of the day, one or more youngsters ends up in here eating, schooling, or drawing. If you were to just walk in my kitchen, this is what you would see. All of the sticker things on my kitchen cabinet doors are bible verses I printed out.  I like to have scripture hung everywhere so I can be refreshed all day. And of course there is my favorite thing in the whole world...my crockpot.

  This is our kitchen table.  We have our schooling in here.  The hutch behind has my good dishes in it.  I also use the top as storage for our homeschool supplies.

Here is my laundry room.  It is right off of the kitchen.  A back door to the kitchen comes in to here.  I have shelving around the whole room..most of our foodstuff and canning things are stored there.

This is our children's room.  My 5 and 3 yr.olds sleep in the bed.  Our 2 yr. old still sleeps in her crib. This is what you would see if you walked into the kids room.  We use bins to store toys under the crib.

Sorry about the fuzzy picture.  Here you can see the boys dresser.  It hold all their clothes.  The top I have converted into a diaper changing station.  I found an antique fishing basket at an antique shop.  It holds all of the disposable diapers and wipes.  The dresser with the lamp holds all the children's bed linens, blankets, crib sheets, and cloth diapers/covers.  There is also a drawer for all of their shoes.

Next is our bedroom.  I just love it.  It is cosy, romantic and smells so good.  (my daughters say they love to go into my room and just smell...guess that means I smell good) If you walked into our room you would immediately see the bed. It is a queen size.  It is normally much straighter, but the little ones love to wrap up in my quilt.

This is the door to our bedroom.  The door to the left is Dh closet.  To the right is a roll top desk that was in my room when I was a little girl.

If you are wondering about all of the lovely pictures in my home, they came out of my great grandmother's house.  Most of them are over a hundred years old.

This is my dresser.  Me and the 2 yr. old share this dresser. It was also in my room growing up. 

I sincerely hope you enjoyed the tour of my home.  God Bless and please come visit if you are ever in East Tennessee!