A Day in My Life

In March and June of 2008, I posted entries chronicling "a day in my life".

As I wrote previously:

Obviously, attending college or pursuing a career is generally expected of someone that has completed their high school education. Since I am currently neither attending college or pursuing a career, I am fairly often asked (with good reason), "So what do you do all day?!?"

I previously wrote why I've chosen to live at home (click here to read that entry), but I can certainly understand why someone would wonder what exactly fills my day.

Monday, July 27, 2009

7:00 A.M. Wake up, read Bible, read one chapter of Jesus the One and Only by Beth Moore

7:45 A.M. Get dressed and ready for the day!

8:00 A.M. Post farm checks to bookkeeping program, prepare farm bank deposit

8:30 A.M. Run

9:00 A.M. Return home, hang first load of laundry on clothesline

9:15 A.M. Clean bathroom (it is sooo nice to only have one bathroom to clean at our new house!)
9:30 A.M. Watch Sullivan open his birthday presents with the rest of the family (it's his birthday!)

10:00 A.M. Wash breakfast dishes, butter churn dishes and equipment (Mama was already making butter earlier)

10:30 A.M. Grind wheat, prepare yeast, bake two loaves of bread

11:00 A.M. Make Sullivan's ice cream birthday cake

11:30 A.M. Slice and dehydrate tomatoes

12:00 P.M. Email real estate client regarding a property of interest

12:45 P.M. Pull together lunch, slice freshly baked bread

1:00 P.M. Lunch and Sullivan's birthday celebration

2:00 P.M. Clean up from lunch (My grandmother, Pat-Pat, is visiting so dishes and clean up are going much faster with extra help!)

2:20 P.M. Prepare peach jam to can

3:15 P.M. Help pull together farm order for customer

3:30 P.M. Pick blackberries for blackberry jam, accidentally disturb wasp nest, get stung by a wasp on my finger (Fortunately, it was my left hand and not my right because it made my entire hand and even my wrist swell up and now, a day later, I can still barely bend it!)

4:00 P.M. Give up on picking blackberries and begin canning them

4:45 P.M. Go to dairy barn's clean room to process 50+/- jars returned from Monday's milk delivery's customers

5:45 P.M. Go back to the house to bake BBQ buns for supper (Sullivan requested BBQ for his birthday meal)

6:15 P.M. List family friend's house for rent on internet

6:45 P.M. Help potty-training Sheridan find a change of clothes... ;)

7:30 P.M. Prepare BBQ, baked beans, finish BBQ buns (Oliver also grilled some corn for our meal)

7:45 P.M. Eat supper (We usually eat between 8-9 P.M. so this is actually "early" for us!)

8:15 P.M. Clean kitchen and dining room from supper

8:30 P.M. Pull Tuesday farm delivery orders from internet, post more farm payments to bookkeeping program

8:45 P.M. Check my emails, read a few interesting articles, update blog, read friends' blog updates... :)

11:00 P.M. Draft blog entry

11:45 P.M. Bed

I hope y'all enjoyed seeing what fills a day in my life! Of course not every day is identical. Today (Tuesday) I spent the morning and most of the afternoon cleaning out a barn with Mama and early tomorrow morning (around 4:30 AM) I will be leaving with Daddy to spend the day bushhogging down in Hertford, so my days are quite varied, but this is a fairly accurate schedule of a normal day at home.

I wrote the following in my first "A Day In My Life" post:

I love being productive and can't imagine life any other way! Most of the daily tasks could be considered fairly menial and repetitive, but so are the tasks associated with many full-time careers. It is so much more exciting to have the opportunity to do such a variety of productive activities on your own time schedule and to be furthering your family's endeavors instead of working for a boss you hardly know.