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October is Preganncy and Infant Loss Awareness Mon

October is Preganncy and Infant Loss Awareness Month 🩷🩵

A month I didn’t know about until I joined this awful club a little over a year ago after giving birth to twin daughters who were born too small to survive outside my womb. For a little over a year now, we have had to learn how to be parents without living children, how to go on after the unimaginable has occurred, how to look forward to brighter days when the current one feels like it could suffocate you, how to live with the all consuming reality that for the rest of our lives, our two little girls Keely and Lydia will be missed every moment of every day and our hearts will never fully heal.

1 in 4 women experience a pregnancy or infant loss. You know so many more people living this horrible reality than you realize. Mothers wondering if they will ever carry a healthy pregnancy and bring a baby home. Fathers who have to stand by and watch their wives go through unimaginable pain trying to start a family. Parents who don’t know how to answer when people ask “do you have kids?” because the answer is so complicated. Fathers who grieve just as deeply but are often skipped over in society to check on during a loss because the focus is on the mother.

You never know what reality someone is living behind the scenes. Be kind and gentle to people. Take a second to count your blessings if you had children and built a family without any losses…. So many of us do not have that privilege. For the next month, remember how many wished for, much desired and much loved babies are no longer here and hold space for those parents who are grieving and will be for the rest of their lives.

The abundance of a homestead life never ceases to

The abundance of a homestead life never ceases to me. Fresh eggs, garden veggies, flowers and homegrown meat in progress.

Does it require a lot of hard work? Absolutely. Is that work worth it? 1000%.

Thanks for an amazing ride so far Charlie. Here’

Thanks for an amazing ride so far Charlie. Here’s to many more years, adventures and joyous rides ❤️

Food preservation is more fun together ❤️ My h

Food preservation is more fun together ❤️ My hubby and I do pretty much all of our canning, freezing and food preservation projects together. They go way faster with extra hands and we have more fun doing it as a team.

Today we froze fresh rhubarb from the farmers market to use as jam or pie! A successful start to the harvest and preservation season!

If you wouldn’t drink it, why should your horse?

If you wouldn’t drink it, why should your horse?

As the heat of the summer arrives, it’s a great moment to revisit best practices for watering your equines. To prevent colic and keep your horse healthy and happy, water intake is vital. A full sized horse should drink a minimum of 6-10 gallons of clean water a day and closer to 15-18 gallons for hot weather or a horse in consistent work.

Your horses should have 24 hour access to fresh clean water. I keep the outdoor water tub filled for while they are outside all day and 2 buckets filled in the stall at night. I scrub and clean the tubs and buckets minimum of once a week and more often in the summer when I need them drinking more. Horses can be VERY picky and refuse to drink if the water is dirty or stagnant or even if they don’t like the color bucket (I wish I were joking about that one but I’ve seen it happen 😂).

If you notice they aren’t drinking enough, make sure the water is clean and fresh as is the drinking vessel. Also, electrolyte supplements can increase their drinking and should be kept on hand at all times just in case.

These mornings on the farm fill my soul. The peace

These mornings on the farm fill my soul. The peaceful quiet of munching animals and softly singing birds. The calming repetition of the chores I do day in day out.

There are so many different ways to start your morning out on the right foot. Some people meditate or do yoga. Some people read and journal. I spend 30 minutes outside caring for the animals that fill my life with joy and taking in the beauty of nature. I wouldn’t change it for the world.

How do you start your morning?

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