Going to Try and Start Again...

So I let my blogging go to the wayside... Well I have decided that I have found some very good ideas by many bloggers, that would be too good t not share. Also I would love to continue sharing my experiences as a stay at home mom to two beautiful children. So here is to trying to continue blogging!

So first off I better bring my blog up to speed...
When I last posted we were at week 19 in my second pregnancy. Well I gave birth to a beautiful girl Elizabeth. We are so very blessed. Year ago we excepted that me bearing children would not be the plan of growing our family. However God did choose to bless us in that way by two! I will in the future discuss more about our infertility and pregnancies. In short we have 2 children 2 years apart. (We had the same due date for both... Totally God!) After my daughter was born I did have more female problems which resulted in a hysterectomy 9 months after her birth. So now we are in prayer as to if and when God would want us to look into either fostering or adoption.

Also to bring up to speed... We have increased our homesteading by starting to raise our own beef. It is neat to see how much the kids learn by having the animals. We have already raised and butchered 3 steers. We do not butcher the steers ourselves as we do not have the capability to do so here. I am sure Scott would love to have his own butcher shop here on the property (honestly I think that may be a good idea... LOL). We do continue to butcher goats here as well as chickens and rabbits.

We are in the process of building raised beds for my garden. Unfortunately we didn't accomplish to much of that this last summer and fall and winter have been extremely wet. So hopefully we can get a few rows of raised beds in for spring planting. If not we will make do again. My goal was to can quite a bit last year, but it was not the year for a great harvest from our garden. We did get a good amount of corn and pears put up, and the grapes were plentiful, but no peaches or tomatoes. We were blessed by others bounty in green beans. So we did get some put up. So again that is my goal for this year to have a increase in storage of our own raised produce.

Well There will be more to update on but this is all the time I have for now!
Til next time....