I thought I’d share a fairly typical day here on the homestead. This wasn’t today, I wrote it a while back actually but saved it as a draft until today. 🙂

Started out the day with my coffee and some quiet reading time in bed. I actually woke up on time. Got up, got dressed, threw in a load of laundry while the kids fed the animals, and hung a load on the line. I don’t have a ‘real’ laundry line so this year I decided to just put up some rope. Alesia says it looks like a campground. I believe that’s a good thing. Ha!

Started on dinner while the kids got the table cleared up for school after breakfast. Homemade soup. Alesia (eldest dd) got the first batch of bread dough going  in the bread maker while I fried some bacon for the soup. We wanted to try making homemade soft pretzels to have with our soup tonight. Yum yum!

In the meantime, dear hubby shipped off parcels for the biz before he left for work.

Once we finished school work, I had a cup of coffee and took care of things online before lunch. Alesia made us lunch today, toasted bagels with cream cheese and some smoked salmon a friend gave us. It was VERY tasty! I felt spoiled. 🙂

Since she made lunch for me, I fed the horses their snack for her. They come quickly when they know it’s snack time. Truth be known, they are usually waiting near the gate by the time we come out because they know it must be close to feeding time again.

Once they were all happy munching away, it was time to head to the cabin/sewing studio and get to work. We picked some weeds along they way for the chickens & ducks.

Time for work! As usual, a nice pretty pile was waiting for me.

I worked on a few custom orders, and began getting things ready for future instock. I worked from about 1-4:30 and then headed back in the house to make the soft pretzels before dinner. By the way, we got the idea from www.thepioneerwoman.com so head on over there and check out the cooking section for a recipe and directions on how to make your own!

The girls and I had fun rolling the dough into strips.

Then they got really creative and made some ‘buns’ too. 🙂

These are SO tasty! I love the sea salt on them. Once they were done, we ‘basted’ them with butter. Yum!

I’ve had two already… shhhh…. we’re waiting on dear hubby and son to get home so we can eat but they are late so we’re all munching away. Hopefully there will be some left by the time they get here. 😉

Oh! Here they are now. Time for supper!

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