Lots of lists

Highlights of the week:

• 20-week ultrasound
• planning gender reveal party- making tissue paper flowers using this tutorial
• two tries and no go- modest, shy, sleeping baby would not reveal
• cancel party
• get ready for the last chicken processing weekend- getting excited about winter (and slower-paced days)

 To-do this week:

1. Send birthday cards to three friends and several relatives
2. Laundry from chicken processing weekend
3. General laundry- try to get it all done and put away
4. Buy spices to make sausage
5. Grocery shop/make menus
6. Make 6 weeks of school plans- I can hardly believe we are done with the first 6+ weeks!
7. Help label and freeze pig
8. Grind pork and make 60 lbs of sausage
9. Call Mom
10. Go through egg customer waiting list and contact potential buyers
11. order more capsules (more on that later)
12. write pregnancy posts
13. visit midwife
14. weed strawberry patch
15. return stuff to Target/JoAnns
16. Sunday ironing
17. vacuum house
18. start thinking about Christmas picture/cards
19. make gluten free brownies, using this recipe from the Spunky Coconut
20. watch nephews while sister-in-law has a baby
21. buy lightbulbs
22. record transactions in Mint.com
23. get next book club book from the library (How Green Was My Valley)
24. find some comfortable winter shoes I can wear with socks- any ideas? Thinking about these...

Things I would like to put on my to-do list:

• make curtains for my room
• sew duvet covers for boys room
• make jewelry with Adeline
• look for some maternity tops
• make food for myself- I'm always hungry these days!

Off to bed...life is good, and I am still figuring out how to adjust to homeschooling and part-time farming, and being a pregnant wife and mom. Lots to be thankful for! More pictures to come...

Challenge #6

Still no consistent bedtime routine, but it looks like I have one more week's reprieve. This week's challenge was to try to switch to an eco-friendly hair product. Thankfully, I already use baking soda and vinegar for my shampoo/conditioner. I blogged about it here, and I'm happy to say that it is a habit that's stuck around (unlike many other bright ideas). I still haven't committed to washing the kids hair this way; I'm usually just trying to get the whole bath routine wrapped up and stay mostly dry and patient, and the multi-step approach doesn't fit in. But one day.

Hope your week is going well- things are crazy as usual around here.

Come have lunch at our place!

Our farm is having a cookout on Saturday- if you are local, we'd love to have you join us!

Visit our farm website here- Haelen Farm- for more details.