Wild and Wonderful West Virginia - Homeschool Blogger

computer illiterate

Tue, 7 Mar 2006 21:02:00 -0600

Well, after several minutes of trying to figure out how to post again, I finally called scrapquilt and she fixed me right up---my daughter is so smart! Things have been busy in WV, butchered a hog and got it put up with a lot of help from step-mom, scrapquilt, son, and of course dear husband. I love the fact that we are gradually getting away from preservatives and other things that couldn't be good for us. We now have chickens, eggs (of course), and rabbits for fresh food. We bred the rabbits again and on th 14 we should have new babies. Then 6 weeks after will be butchering time for them. For those who have never eaten tame rabbit, it almost tastes like chicken...yes, they say that about everything don't they (snake, frog legs...) I would love to start making my own soap and my dh has agreed to let me order some from quiverfull to try it first. She makes hers from goats milk, and it is supposed to be very mild and moisturizing.

We are now in the bassett puppy business...I have tried several things to try to supplament our income...and finally after much praying bought two bassett hounds. Our new puppies arrived March 1 and we have now sold all four of them...yes!!! At $250.00 a piece that will pay for a vacation this year. I have really been struggling with whether to go back to work or not..I really feel guilty when dh goes to work each morning and I know that he really does not like to. I felt each time that I prayed about it that the Holy Spirit was telling me just to rely on Jesus...but couldn't decided if that was actually the Holy Spirit talking or just my flesh not wanting to go back to work. The puppy thing has relieved some of those feelings...God will provide as long as I am doing His will.

Hello!

Tue, 28 Feb 2006 13:23:00 -0600

Hi everyone! I am the second part of this duo, Miranda. I am 27 years old, wife to my wonderful husband Peter and mother to two preschoolers. Jacob is 4 1/2 and Caleb is 3 1/2. I am just starting on my homeschooling journey. I started out the year using Covenant Home preschool curriculum with Jacob. My husband who had been off for the last 2 1/2 weeks looked at the curriculum and decided we needed to go back to basics. Now we are just using flashcards, an alphabet chart, and handprinted worksheets. I really think that most preschool curriculum is just books that the companies are throwing together to meet the demand of anxious homeschooling moms! I have been so excited to finally start homeschooling. I know that is will be hard and tedious, but also fun and exciting. Every homeschooling mom gets to experience the "light bulb" moments with their children.

I currently trying to teach myself to knit. I attended one class on knitting and kind of just taken off with it. I am working on knitting dishcloths. If I could just keep the boys from pulling out my stitches, I would be much farther!

I am looking forward to meeting new people from around the United States and the world. I would love to hear from so homegrown West Virginia Mountaineers!

Planting eggs!

Tue, 28 Feb 2006 13:50:00 -0600

Welcome to my new blog! I live in the beautiful state of West Virginia, (no not western Virginia), yes there really is a state named West Virginia. You would never believe the people that don't know that! I am the almost 50 year old wife, mother, grandmother, who is really enoying life. I homeschool my youngest son, and everyday is an adventure with him. We use different textbooks for homeschooling as this is what he prefers. I would love to use unit studies, but that frustrates him. I am sure that you are wondering about planting eggs. Well, I have had chickens for about 9 months and love them. I only have about 12 and they are different varieties. Well, I went out to gather eggs the other day and found 3 hens sitting on the same nest, trying to hatch the same 3 eggs. My husband had read somewhere that if you put golf balls in the other nests, they would think they were eggs and lay with the golf balls. He found several golf balls and put two in diffent nests....we couldn't wait to see if "planting eggs" worked. Several days later the hens are still using the same nest...and there is nothing growing in the other nests, but golf balls.