Countless Calories

As a women in general there are thing that we are wanting to change about our weight, lose, gain, even a proportion shift. Last year after trouble losing baby weight I joined weight watchers in the winter and had very good success with counting my points. Then come the summer months with farming, that throws everything out of whack!

I am a healthy weight but it's always something I consciously think about. I recently started counting my "points" again on my own, with plans to join again soon...that 10 pounds comes back a lot quicker than it leaves.

After some bribery for a haircut, I promised Claire a baby cone from Dairy Queen when she asked if I was going to "share" one. (In Claire language that means, you get yours and I get mine and we eat together...."sharing"). I at first said no, knowing that I was on point number 16 and had yet to eat dinner. When she asked why....I'm thinking why....so I get 2 baby cones. There is no better feeling than "sharing" a baby cone with my baby. No point or calorie counter can give you the feeling the the pure joy a child has while eating an ice cream cone :P there are some calories you just can't count!

Parenting Claire

Please follow the link to take a peek into the parenting of Claire. This should explain further my spirited child blog.......all aspects of it!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8_lpQon5Kuw&feature=g-upl&context=G27dac48AUAAAAAAAAAA

The Strong Willed Child Part 1

Claire is 3. Not only do I have a 3 year old but I have Claire, who is 3. Most of you out there understand what I mean by this.

I was a strong willed child, I knew that, I knew that I was going to get it when I had my own children but comments from my own mother make me wonder, how "strong willed" can this girl be? How bad is this going to get?
"She is smart, no she is really smart" ~ you know when your mother reinforces something like that there is more to it...and then she doesn't tell you what that is, that you are in real trouble.

We at Claire's 3rd year well visit a couple weeks ago, some trong behavior  occurred while at the Doctor's office, prompting her to suggested a book. "The NEW strong willed child". She made the comment that she read the book herself for her own daughter and it has helped her. The next day I was on Amazon.com ordering myself a copy.

Almost daily C does something and I wonder, what am I supposed to do with that? I quickly dive into the book, hoping to get some answers to use that day. We are now returning back to the part where I have Claire the 3 year old. I think I average 1 page an hour.....If I get more than that I have to jump up and run to find the disaster that has been made and I'm not yet on the part in the book that tells me how to deal with that YIKES!

I desperately try to stay up at night to read, but I have this strong willed child that takes it out of me everyday and now I'm tired.....Dr Dobson, you know I have a tiring strong willed child, I bought the book because of that but tell me..."why would you make it more than 100 pages before you offer any resolve to my issues?" This is the thought I had while holding my eyes open with pencils, trying to read about raising my strong willed child.

I am sure there is a reason and I will understand in the end....To be continued

New Name......

In my "reasearch" which I also call "creeping" I found that the term "the farmers wife" meant something different to me than the general term. I"m going to copy and paste now from my blog a few years ago called "the purpose" because it is so ringing true to me now and since it was a while ago and I am refreshing this blog it was appropriate. I figured "the farmers wife" was misleading because that it not all that I see myself as being, name change......

I, like so many, am a farmers wife. It is and isn't what you are thinking......I'm not talking about the basket weaving, wreath making, dough kneading, washing the clothes on a rock farmers wife. But rather the, working, picking up kids from the daycare, making sure they and everyone else has clean clothes for the morning, lunch packing, dinner making, all household chore doing, wanting to sometimes hurt your hay baling husband, farmers wife. ( I mean that in the most loving way possible :p)


I have to say I am in love with US Weekly and Reality TV - I watch and pick out the points in the show/magazine that I can relate to. I mostly think, I should have a reality TV show!!

I work in an office where there still are tapered leg jeans (still because they are from the 80's)permed mulletts, and the closest person to my age is 10 years older than me.


I also have a hard time finding things about this lifestyle. "Normal" girls/women that like coach purses and waching the real housewives of Orange county but live no where close to a starbucks or saks. And if I read the last sentence to my farmer husband he doesn't know what a coach purse or a saks is..........Riding horses and being in the country totally changes my attitude and I love that life. My 3 year old looks for the moon every night, I almost tear up every time. It's the love of life that I live for, please join me in my journey.

I"m back

I have decided to give this blog another shot. I'm more than sure there are more than 1 "farmers wife" out there living in a 200 year old house, and occasionally lose water at 7pm on Tuesday nights :) Luckily married to that farmer that can fix it...but then again he is the one who broke it.

Happy Valentines Day!!!
This week....excuse me....this month has been extrememly busy considering it's "off season". Our valentines day was no different, Claire's 3 year old well visit, followed buy dinner at our favorite mexican resturant, bath, candy fight and bed for Claire, and broken water filter for us :) The hardware store in town agreed to stay open long enough for G to get there by 8 and purchase the materials needed to fix it, all was back on by 9....

Tell me about your valentines day on the farm.....