Plus, you know, you were actually raising a bunch o' kids during that time. :) (And yes, of course, people have long raised passels of kids in conjunction with a farming/homesteading life, but for me? In that season on life? I couldn't even keep a plant alive -- and stopped trying -- b/c whatever energy & nurturing I had was all going to my family)
Goats! How delightful! Where in SW Michigan? (Iām in Kalamazoo.)
Plus, you know, you were actually raising a bunch o' kids during that time. :) (And yes, of course, people have long raised passels of kids in conjunction with a farming/homesteading life, but for me? In that season on life? I couldn't even keep a plant alive -- and stopped trying -- b/c whatever energy & nurturing I had was all going to my family)