I have a huge project on the horizon that I have been carefully working on all summer. It explains a few odd things, like why the season has flown by for me and why I can easily eat a pint of cherry tomatoes several times a day. I’m growing a baby!
This may or may not be a surprise, depending on how much you read between the lines of my blog posts. And, frankly, you may or may not care because hey we’re here to talk about homesteading! That will absolutely continue, but we may also talk about homesteading while wearing a baby sling. And some of my canning recipes might become more kid-friendly.
As a first time preggo lady, I am discovering some really mind blowing things. First and foremost, my body is no longer my own. I slept through almost the entire months of June and July. Are you kidding? When it’s gorgeous out? When I have seeds to plant and weeding to do? I think it was nature’s way of breaking the news to me: I can’t get twenty things done in a day anymore. Slow down girl and take it easy.
I also learned what it’s like to eat only “beige” food. My body didn’t want the rich greens I normally eat during the first couple months. I wanted eggs, bread, peanut butter, hummus, grapefruit, orange juice and canned peaches. Thankfully those rough first trimester months are behind me and I can now inhale produce from every color of the rainbow outside.
My annual plans for pear cider changed this year to be plum wine instead. Turns out waiting 6-9 months for the wine to develop lines up just perfectly with the little one growing in my belly. By the time baby is out, I can have a glass of wine to celebrate.
The take away from all this? The blog continues and the modern homestead adventures continue. Expect an addition to the chaos sometime in early March and perhaps a couple week’s hiatus from blogging as I find my bearings.
How very exciting! Congratulations! What a lucky baby.
Oh my goodness! Congratulations! I can’t wait for more updates π
Congratulations! Take good care of yourself.
I knew it! Congrats Renee, looking forward to seeing the ways your blog/journalism changes as your life inevitably does.
Congratulations! I’m really looking forward to hearing more as time goes on. Pregnancy is tough (not that I have a lot of first-hand knowledge of it) but children are fun and wonderful in ways that I never would have expected. It might be hard to keep blogging as often as you do when there is a new baby around, but I hope you do. You’re a great writer and I always enjoy checking in here. Best of luck!
Ooh, congrats! I’ll definitely read your pregnancy posts, too, with even greater interest, as I’m a midwifery student! I’m interested in what kind of birth you are hoping for? I’m planning to be a homebirth midwife, and homebirth definitely goes along with homesteading in my mind! π
Whee! Congradulations are in order! I bet you’ll find tons of new things to post too, relating homesteading with children now! Plus, having a helping hand in the garden and getting the child interesting in it all as well – lucky kid, lucky mom!
Congratulations! I am smiling to myself because I’m spending a few stolen moments here trying to catch up on your blog, which I enjoy so much. I used to be a faithful daily reader of many, many blogs– then I had twins! My girls are 22 months old now, and they keep me busy just about 24 hours a day. They are the joys of my life, but their care is all-consuming! But I figured it out, and you will too. :):) Wishing you a healthy and uneventful pregnancy.
congrats! when i got pregnant i just couldn’t gather enough energy to water my garden. plus, i didn’t want to eat anything from it, so i really had no incentive to care for it. your life changes with pregnancy and then really changes again when your little one arrives. you adjust and merge your old life with your new life and keep going. i’d always been interested in homesteading, but it wasn’t until i became a parent that i really got into it. when i got pregnant, a little over two years ago, i had a small, dying container garden. we moved to a bigger house last year, and now i have two raised beds in the backyard, four small raised beds in the front yard, and a big free form bed on the side of the house, plus four chickens, and lots of pints of pickles, jam, and chicken stock that i put up this summer. it’s a lot of work, but watching my little girl run through the garden and snack on whatever she can pick makes it all worth it, especially when my friends are complaining about how their kids won’t eat any veggies. gardens are perfect for kids!