The New Home

Well I have a new home on the web! I wanted a change....I know a new place on the web why such a big change! I don't know I just did it and I love it. I have felt a push and pull towards this for a few weeks and Saturday I jumped and just did it.

Homegrown Family

and

Our Homeschool Journey

are our new places! Our Homeschool Journey will be a journal of our homeschool adventure it is my children's blog but I wanted to also expand it from where I want them to write about what they learn to that and me journally our experiences. So this blog will be just homeschooling stuff...

Homegrown family will be all the other stuff I love to write about. But I hope to do the format differently and as the site evolves I will evolve with it. Pioneer Homemaker will still be here just for the files. I will refer back to it and link to it every now and then so you can still click on over here click around.

I hope to see you at our other places and while your there leave a comment let me know you decided to visit and tell me what you think. The space is simple and basic but that is what I want a fresh new look that is simple and basic with a name that protrays who we are.

Change

Today hubby worked and Yguy is still sick he is on antibiotics but.... So Ash went to work with hubby today and Yguy and I stayed home. He vegged on the couch or in a chair out by the chicken yard while I cleaned.

The living room, bathroom, kitchen, laundry room, and hallway have been spring cleaned. The bedrooms are that is left. I didn't go whole hog on the hallway shelf since we aren't done with school a few more weeks and then I will go through the books pack way etc. Get ready for a summer learning and a new school year. But for now the walls were wiped down and the shelves straigthened.

We even cleaned the chicken house put new nest boxes in (old tires) with new hay! And generally made the hens freak out. These set of hens get freaked out easily and they EAT constantly that I am not sure I like. But we are getting eggs on a regular basis and that we like!

With cleaning, rearranging, and the hum drum winter blues I have been feeling the need for change. Something has been popping into my head alot the last few weeks and today I did something about it. So Monday change will happen and I hope you like it come by Monday and I will let you in on the great surprize!

I'm so excited!

Wednesday.....

Hump day 2 more days till the weekend. And I think, I am pretty sure, I really really hope! We have nothing this Saturday to do and fingers crossed hubby won't have to work. We have had 2 Saturdays home since Jan 1st and it is really starting to affect us. I think that is why my winter blues are worse this year than normal. But enough whining! If hubby has to work this weekend then I will load the kiddos up and go with him. Its fun roaming around a grave yard especially the old ones here in the south we really get into ornate graves. :0)

Yesterday after school which was done on the couch under Yguy's comforter since he is sick we went to Walmart and picked him up some more Nyquil and throat lozenges. He is sleeping in this morning again poor little guy well hes not that little at 12 he is a little taller than me and I'm 5'6". But he still snuggles up to his mom and holds my hand when we go into stores etc especially when its just the two of us.

When we got back I moved the washer and dryer out and really scrubbed the laundry room. They hadn't been moved since the day we put them in there 3 years ago and there was alot of dust etc under there. But I am happy to say not anymore!

I didn't add to the giveaway pile but I did fill a garbage bag full and rearranged things so I have a little more room in there. I cut the dryer hose in half and that enabled me to move the dryer closer into the corner so then the washer and dryer are moved over about a foot that opened an nice area up made it look alot bigger in there. I also did the cleaning closet since I don't buy a bunch of cleaning stuff just vinegar mainly I just put the vaccum in there and my swiffers. That opened the laundry room up too, getting that out of there.

This morning I moved that art supply cart and cleaned under it washed the cat bowls, water bowls, and dog bowls so today I will hopefully get to the living room. I am doing baby steps a little at a time. The whole house won't be done for awhile I want to steam clean the rugs too but that will wait till Yguy is better and its warmer so I can open those windows and let in the warm
air.

Oh our chickens that we ordered in Sept starting laying a couple of weeks ago and now more and more are laying. I love getting eggs from our own chickens!

Have a Blessed Day!

Spring Cleaning

Twice a year I try and I stress try to move everything and vacuum under it mop etc. Yesterday I wiped out all the kitchen cabinets, cleaned the tops of them, and washed the knick knacks on top. I didn't get to moving the appliances since we had school, piano, and a very sick boy.

This morning I moved those things and vaccumed and mopped under them as well as cleaned the coils on the fridge. I have one more thing to move which is the cart we use for art supplies and we feed the cats on top of it since our dogs love cat food :0)

Today I want to move the things in the living room and vaccum under them and wipe down the walls. But I am not going to stress if I don't get it all done since we have school and still a sick boy. I let him sleep in yesterday and today I just asked him if he feels better or worse and he said, "I don't know, inbetween." Well that is an improvement!

I might do the living room later this week. I just thought of the laundry room I have never in the 3 years we've been here moved things out and really cleaned that tiny room. I have cleaned around stuff so I might move stuff today. But after school!

I have started a throw away or send to the consignment shop pile and put 2 things in it yesterday. I know 2 whole things WOW but I will have more as we go I promise.

Have a blessed day!

Well this morning when I woke it was below freezing 30 degrees when hubby woke it was a little colder. He had to leave before the sun rose this morning. I have had the hardest time getting out of bed the past few weeks. I just don't want to 12 plus hours a night sleeping is getting to be the norm. Maybe with spring I will pull myself out of this LOL

Last week I weeded the flower beds in front of the house in preparation of planting marigolds and maybe zinnias. I plant them every year and love them. This year I think I will start them in pots and then transplant instead of direct seeding. I have a little bantam hen that runs loose and every spring she is in them digging up my seeds. Yguy raked leaves in front of the house and Ash washed the van but it was so nice to be outside. I use the leaves to mulch the garden in the summer and we have LOTS of leaves this year and this is just the beginning when spring really sets in all the leaves that stayed on the trees through winter fall off and we will have even more. So I think we will start raking now and filling up bags and stowing them in the barn for garden time.

I woke this morning in the same ugh! I have been waking in every morning for a few weeks and decided to push myself to do my weekly home blessing. Well I scrubbed the bathroom top to bottom wiped the walls in the cabinets reorganized them etc. I think I will do some spring cleaning this week maybe that will help my mood today I will work on the livingroom and kitchen and of course I just did the bathroom. I will keep you posted on what I have done.

Friday I sewed a brand new blouse for me its Simplicity pattern 3835 I wore it Saturday and loved it. I used one of the flat sheets I bought in the fall at the consignment shop I loved the fabric I have enough left to make a tiered skirt. I have made several of those but this time I think I will do it a little different. I hope to post a picture of the blouse this week. I still need to download the program for my camera onto this new computer before I can post the picture.

Well I think I will take down the curtain and shower curtain and wash them and get the male child up he stays up late reading and then doesn't want to get up. A morning person he is NOT!

Field Trips

Do you remember field trips as a kid it was always exciting to get out and see something new. Well we didn't go someplace new but we haven't been there in awhile. We went to Stennis Space Center a few weeks ago and had alot of fun. The kids are older so they appreciated it more and saw things they didn't when they were younger. Ash really listened to the bus driver as she drove us around showing us the test sites etc and I could tell by the look on her face and reactions she really enjoyed what she learned.

Stennis is the 2nd largest NASA site in the country Kennedy being the 1st. All the engines they use are tested there they have 3 test sites and have been testing engines there since the Saturn 5 rockets. You can't drive on the base you have to get on a bus at a rest area on I10 that is where I took the pictures of the Marti Gras dresses.
This is on display at the rest area you can see it from the highway and under it in the concrete Fred Haise put his foot prints and signed it. He was on the Apollo 13 and is from Mississippi in Biloxi

This is made entirely of LEGOS isn't that neat its really neat up close they told us how long and how many it took to make it but that fact has escaped my mind this morning. This is inside the building you wait for the bus to come.
My mom and I being silly this is an infrared image of her and I her being the shorter. Her grandchildren are alot taller than her too :)))
Grandma and kids trying to fly the mock shuttle this is Yguy's turn and all 3 crashed and burned several times. I did it once and because I read the instructions I got it alot closer to landing than they did. But they had alot of fun and made alot of racket laughing at each other. Good thing we were the only ones there that day.
And as we were waiting for the bus to take us back to our car the kids and I standing behind an engine that was on display it was chilly that day but we had alot of fun. If your ever on I10 close to the border of LA and MS check out Stennis it doesn't have much there but it is really a neat historical visit and doesn't take long.

New Computer!

Well I have been lagging on blogging since our computer/internet has been rebelling on us. So tonight we got a new computer. I will try to get caught up in blogland in the next few days inbetween teaching my husband how to work the new gadget.