Can be a bit hectic, tiring, amazing, fun, entertaining, and takes a true multi tasker to be able to change a diaper while driving a tractor.
I feel like the last 12 weeks have absolutely flown by.
I may have been a bit neglectful on my blog lately. I have tons of great topics outlined. I just need to make the time to sit down and pound them out!
Life with our daughter is fabulous..we both feel like we have been so blessed to have her in our lives. I think I may be guilty of cuddling her just a little too much.
What I have found that works best for me in the last weeks is that every day I try and make a list of the projects I would like to get done, a list for around the house and a list for the farm.
Sometimes the list is long, other times small..but it makes me more efficient for sure. Every night I re hash my days and make a new list for the next day.
On my list this week is to start planning for our Harvest months, end of August until roughly the beginning of November. CRAZY early right?!?! But, now we have a little one to think about and we both are very busy during those days. My husband rarely sees anything but our bedroom shower and bed and I stay pretty busy being in the tractor nearly every day when we are harvesting crops. Not to mention my cooking weeks!
To get ready for those days with a baby I did a couple of things today. I stocked up on some baby formula. Some of the easy stuff, like open the bottle..attach nipple…give to the baby kind. I thought this would be best for getting a bottle ready for baby while still doing whatever my husband asks during those days.
I also started planning meals for my cooking weeks. I plan on doing some major shopping next month to get ready for those months. Life works better for me if I have everything I need in my freezer and every single thing planned out. Now plans don’t always work like we all want them to and lots of times that happens to me. But, I also know that I feel better when I have a plan and now with a little one in the mix I think it’s an even better plan to be as prepared as I can be. That doesn’t mean that things will always run smoothly with meals, but if something changes I just swap plans for those days.
I am such a planner and sometimes being a farm wife you can easily get disappointed when plans change. I will say that in the last year or so I have definitely learned to become more flexible, and I am pretty sure hubby would agree!
Any suggestions from other farm wives out there on “bringing baby to work” with you nearly every day during the harvest months, while still preparing healthy, wholesome foods?
Sara's House HD says
I am totally a planner too! But had to learn to be much more flexible after I married a farmer! I also had to learn that it’s ok to be late to somethings because it never fails that chores take longer on the days when we need to be somewhere at a specific time! ๐
Sara Ross
SDFarmWife says
Isn’t that so true Sara!
Bobbi says
I think in order to be a farm wife you have to have some planning and think ahead skills or you wont survive very long or very well. I am enjoying your posts about working with the baby. We just recently found out we are expecting our 1st and with running a full time farm and working full time off the farm I am a whole lot of nervious of learning a new balancing act. Even getting through the next 7 months has me nervious of how to balance pregnancy with taking care of all the farm and off farm jobs…. Seeing someone else figure it out as gracefully as you have is a relief that there is a chance that we will figure out that balancing act to!!
SDFarmWife says
I think you are so right Bobbi! Even though things don’t go as planned some days I feel like they go smoother when I at least have a grasp on my schedule for the day! I am definitely doing the best I can- sometimes gracefully, sometimes not so much. The best advice I got during my pregnancy was to listen to my mothering instinct, it’s always right. And so far it has been. I eventually got to the point where climbing fences didn’t feel so safe at 7 months, and hubby had to step in. It seems so tough trying to figure everything out but prepare now and know that they really are only little for a little while. It is already amazing all the toting we do with Ellie now as opposed to a month ago on the farm! Best of luck in your pregnancy and keep me posted! I would love to see a picture of your little one!