The day in the life of a stay at home mother of 4 boys trying to live a simpler life in this mass consumer age.
We have a winner! Sara who said that until now she has been keeping track with sticky notes and her phone which wasn’t working that well for her with 3 young children. Hopefully this will help.
Remember there is no wrong way to use a bullet journal and you can modify it to your needs.
Here are a few pages I added to my bullet journal this last month.
How do you use your planner/bullet journal?
My mamma nerves are raw tonight.
A little over 3 weeks ago I went to the farmers market to pick up some eggs. When using set eggs I saw that they were fertile eggs. So on a whim I put 2 of them in my small little incubator. I thought since they had been refrigerated that there would be nothing of the eggs and from my reading on the web it said that they would most likely not hatch but I was wanting to give it a try.
Ten days later I candle the eggs and see that one had started developing. I thought this very cool and had this great blog post brewing in my head about how you can hatch out eggs from the farmers market at only pennies on the chick where they would be good layers since they come from stock used for laying.
Anyhow, fast forward to today, day 23 of the chick being in the egg and the normal cycle 21 days to hatch day and I thought the worst, that the baby chicken had died. Crack open the top where the air sack was and to my surprise I see movement. I instantly feel horrible. Baby was still in there and alive and clearly just behind because, duh… I put COLD eggs into the incubator and it took a few days for the temp to get just right.
I hurry up and put the egg back in the incubator and go online to look for guidance. With the information I had given of baby being on day 23 someone told me to pip the egg (making a hole in the membrane) so that the baby could breath. I try and it starts bleeding! I’m horrified! I feel so guilty and dumb. Poor baby I should have just left it alone to do its natural thing like I believe in for all healthy births! I watch until I notice that baby is not moving anymore. My heart sinks. I leave the egg in the incubator until the boys go to bed to investigate. I poke at it and no movement. I watch for anything but the color now is off too. Finally, I come to terms that the baby is no longer alive in the egg and I crack it open to find a beautiful baby that died because I could not wait longer.
Perfectly formed. All the toes and nails and everything there. Just me being a bad, ignorant mother hen. Had I given the baby a couple of more days to finish absorbing the yoke and pip itself then I would have been welcoming a new member to my flock of chickens instead of feeling loss and guilt tonight.
Hahahaha. So I´m looking at even more hobbies like bee keeping or back yard chickens. I actually really want back yard chickens. I like knowing that I´m producing my own food. That is why I like veggie gardening so much. I like to know where my food has been and what has been done to it.
This is the coop that I would like in my back yard
I would only like 2-3 chickens. That would be enough for us for now. I might add another when DS gets older. The droppings will be good for the garden as well.
I also have way to many projects going on my needles. I finished a whole project yesterday. It is a bag that I´m sending to a friend. Made with Icelandic wool. It was a fun make.
I am also sending these socks.
Well need to go take a shower and then go outside and garden.