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About our family

I realized that I didn't really give a lot of information on myself and our family although there is a little bit in my profile. My name is Jenn, my husband, our children and I live in WA state, on 40 acres way back in the mountains.

We had a rocky year in some ways and had to get rid of all of our animals, except our dog and cats. We had a lease option on a house and unfortunately the other guy didn't give any of our money to the bank. We had to move rather quickly when they decided to repossess the house that they thought was vacant. It was God's hand moving in our lives for sure, now we own 40 acres instead of leasing 20, and we are very happy here. We only moved 4 miles down the road! But the house had to be fixed before the fences could go up. We are hoping to get our fences put back up in ths spring so that we can have them again. The kids especially miss their goats!

We have been homeschooling for 4 years and use a lot of different stuff, mostly unit studies and whole books. We use KONOS for unit study activities, but we don't really follow the character trait format, we sort of pick and choose the units we want to do. We love Ignite the Fire by Terri Camp, Cindi Rushton and Lifestyle of Learning. We use a lot of notebooking, and have 3 ring binders all over the house. Scrapbooking is currently popular, probably because it involves a lot of stickers, stamps and cool gel pens. We also supplement with some workbook or activity pages and use Horizons math.

My sons are 8, 6 and 4 years old. My 14 year old daughter recently moved in with her father who lives in town. We are housesitting for my mother in a small town right now, but she will be home in a week and then we can go home.I am ready to go home!! The trains, cars and next door neighbors dogs are wearing on me already.

We raise as much of our own food as possible, and preserve it. We do have electricity, but we could get by without it if we needed to. We have a woodstove, propane oven, kerosene lamps and a generator for running the well pump. We live right at the edge of a clearing in the woods, this template looks a lot like home.We don't have a lake though, we have a pond and a stream. The neighbors (on the 40 acres next to us) have a lake that we can use to go fishing. .

We are pretty outdoorsy, and most of our activities reflect that, except my needlework stuff. My husband is a mechanic and works about an hour away from home in the closest big town.

I suppose that pretty well describes our family. Nice to "meet" all of you who come in here. Leave me a message so I will know you were here!

Welcome .......

{ 05:39, 2005-Dec-28 } { Posted by patintenn }

Thank you for the nice intro. It sounds wonderful where you live. I look forward to hearing more from you as you work on your place.
Come over to my place and see what we have been up to.
Much love and blessings,
Pat in Tenn

Hi :)

{ 05:44, 2005-Dec-28 } { Posted by KingsCastleFarm }

Wa. is a beautiful state, lived there my 1st 18 yrs. Nice intro, looking forward to reading more of your posts.

Blessings,
Tam

Hi!

{ 10:28, 2005-Dec-28 } { Posted by Amber }

Wow, 40 arces, we only have 7.5 and our animals are only on 5 of it. If you want to see all my animals, stop on by, I'm actually trying to find out what kind of goats we have. Can you help?

0:) Amber

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{ 10:39, 2005-Dec-28 } { Posted by Amber }

2 things:
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1. I can't link to your website.
2. Are you on HSchoolB? If not join now, cause you can get free art books. I'm not concidered new anymore. *crying*

BTW, we homeschool similar:)

0:) Amber

My Webpage

{ 06:41, 2005-Dec-29 } { Posted by BeAnxious4nothing }

I don't know why this link doesn't work. it works when I type it in, but not when I click. It isn't really all that entertaining anyway since I am still working on it. But if you want to check it out anyway it's www.freewebs.com/wamountainfamily

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{ 06:19, 2005-Dec-31 } { Posted by peggy }

wow, you sound like you got everything on track and planned out. Bruce and Cheryl have the haybale house and an underground home. here is their site with great pictures if you want to check it out. http://www.potkettleblack.com/natbild/lilacfarm.html
good luck and I will be back to visit often