Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to all!!

  It's a quiet day on the homestead the children are all off playing with the various goodies Santa brought them, the hubs is napping, the goats and puppies are even sleeping the day away, and me well I am feeling wordy so thought Id write a bit.
  This is the first Yuletide since Ive been back on the farm and while there have been some changes somethings never really do. There were cookies for Santa, a Yule log that wasn't pretty but tasted good, smiling children, and too much candy! Christmas eve dinner was nachos but dinner today will be lasagna a recipe that Ive used and adapted over many years but haven't made it in probably 3 years.
  Plans for the new year are already swimming through my head while I sit here listening to video games being played and the littlest farm hands hum and sing Baby Shark for the 1,000th time today. The garden, the new chicken coop, the pasture division (goats on one side pigs on the other), so many budding plans that need to be solidified.
   Plans for my own growth and development are forming as well... school starts back on the 8th. I know I said RN was where I was planning to be, I changed my mind as people do and decided phlebotomy might be a good place to find myself so I dropped all my classes and am devoting myself to this course, and am more than a little excited to be doing it. Exercising and making sure I take care of myself is high on the list of plans for the new year as well. So often we as women put others before ourselves often to our own detriment and this is a trend that stops today for me. Self care is important it is also often the first to go and the last to be done so lets see how I do on remembering I am also a people who needs to be cared for.
   What are your plans for the new year? Any goals, not resolutions, hardly anyone sticks with resolutions? Where do you see yourself this time next year?
     I hope everyone had the bestest  Christmas! From all of us here at Full Circle mini Farm MERRY CHRISTMAS!
 
 
   

Snow Day!!

  So it wasn't really a snow day, but it did snow! I had the day off already, the kids did their school work while I wrote a two page paper for my final final assignment for ACA (college transfer course). This means two classes are done forever, that sounds so much better than done for the semester. Over the past little while I have wondered if I was following the right path but as I wrote this paper I claimed it, Im GOING to be a nurse.
  I'm going to work nearly full time, be a mom 24/7, an almost full time student, and run this homestead with everything that I have. This road will be long but when has anything been easy when it is what you really want. Not to say Im not going to whine here and there just saying Im not giving up.
 

SO MUCH THIS!!

                  

 Back to this snow day, I made a huge pot of chili to last the next couple of days, a grocery list for the next two weeks, ordered next springs seed catalog, wrote that paper, and made some yummy cinnamon blondie thing that the Gods of butter and sugar Themselves must have saved to Pinterest. Alas I am old and boring it would seem but Im happy and that my friends is what's important above all.

  The snow falling is just beautiful not much is sticking but it is lovely to watch, has me thinking of Spring when winter hasn't even gotten here yet! So much to do around the homestead, so much to plant and prune, so much to repair or change into something new and useful. All that hope is a beautiful thing too. 

Tomorrow will be filled with time with the kids maybe making decorations for Yule, a trip to the grocery store, and maybe some cleaning... who knows maybe I'll write here again. Love & Light yall and good night!  

I Feel Like Writing If you Feel Like Reading... Advanced Childhooding

  Its been 5 years since I last did this, sat in front of a computer and written my thoughts. Ive been writing papers for school but they are less feels and more facts. Guess catching up would be nice but that is not for today, today is just for writing to see how it feels to me, to see if I can make it make sense, I guess an outlet more than anything.
   Trying to find my joy for the homestead has been troubling me, this was my love, my passion and one would think that as I am going to school to be a nurse the health of my family through what they eat is super important and this homestead is the way to ensure what goes into our children better than anything else. Maybe through writing Ill find that passion again.
    Ive lost the passion for doing Magick too but that's another one for another day. Seems that work and school and kids and getting back to life here in Pinetops normal have taken all my energy and thus there is no room for anything else which is bologna I just have to budget my time and work on my planning. Adulting 101 is not a college class and if it were my booty would fail it so hard so lets not think of it as adulting lets think of it as advanced childhooding. Lets make life fun instead of hurdles to be jumped.
  I guess I should tackle something in these paragraphs... The name of the homestead will be the one thing. As most everyone knows I started out in Pinetops and through a series of events some happy some unfortunate and some that just happened I have found myself back with the husband that I didn't think I would happily call my husband again and back in Pinetops and thus my life has gone full circle. So Id like to welcome you all ( well the 3 or 4 who may read this) to Full Circle mini Farm and to the adventures of a sexy farm girl who is struggling to add RN behind her name.
   Todays adventure was weatherizing the chicken coop, the grocery store, a gingerbread Bunt cake with a poured cream cheese icing, and starting a blog. Sounds super adventurous I know but every single day should be an adventure. Love & Light yall!!