About Me
A Study in Numbers
Number of children I have: 6
Age of my oldest child: 8
Number of children in diapers: 2.5
Number of diapers I change in a day: 16
Loads of laundry I wash each day: 4
Time I get up in the morning: 5
Times I wash my hands in a day : 78
Times a day I run the dishwasher: 1.5
Number of times a day we empty the kitchen trash: 3
Number of songs I sing before they finally fall asleep at naptime and bedtime: 5
Number of children’s books I read in a day: 6
How many years I’ve been without cable tv: 3
How many days a week that I bake bread: 2
How many days we really eat oatmeal for breakfast: 4
Number of times we go out to eat in a year: 2 (thanks, Mom!)
Number of times I’ve been to the movies in the last year: 1 (thanks, Mom!)
Number of glasses of water I drink in a day: 20
Hours I spend in the garden in a week: 7
Months we lived on our food storage: 27
Months we had to restock: 10
Months we've been living on our food storage again: 1
Frequently Asked Questions
A: Most of the time, yes. I do manage to get some other things done. When I make enough for leftovers, I have more time to do other things, so leftovers are a regular part of my planning.
A: Yes, everyday.
A: I taught myself how to cook. Cookbooks are a wonderful thing. Friends in college were a big help, and when I lived in Europe I asked lots of questions.
A: I made food and I took pictures of it. All of the pictures of food on this site, including the headers, are pictures that I took of food that I made.
A: Not all of them. I bought some used on ebay and at resale shops. When my oldest daughter went from a size 6x to a size 7, where clothes cease to be modest, she reached the age where I started making all of her dresses.
A: Yes, I will! I would add some more things, though, if I had money to shop for them: more eggs, lots more cheese--especially goat cheese, cream, milk and ice cream. Of course, moving to a small farm and getting chickens and a cow could solve most of those and I still wouldn't have to go shopping too often!
Update: In February of 2009, I began to slowly start restocking our pantry. In December 2009, we started living on our food storage again.