Looks Like We May See A White Christmas After All.

    Well December has almost come to an end and like all the children I was hoping for a white Christmas, which in the last few years meant a lovely white blanket of snow.  This year however meteorologists are talking about a weather bomb, sure it would be the year that I move miles away from home that we would get a winter storm and not be able to have family attend, just my luck.  So now our work around the homestead gets a bit busier as we roll the last couple bales of hay into the barn, make our animals bedding just a bit thicker to insure their warmth and unpack all the wool blankets, candles, flashlights and do a quick shop for bottled water just encase we do get hit by the storm. 
    With eight children on the homestead we are pretty prepared for anything.  This past fall I canned as many preserves as I could before we up and moved, I always buy in bulk when it comes to such things as flour, sugar, coffee, tea, pasta....well you get the idea, and our freezers are full of our chicken and beef that we butchered as well.  So all and all no matter what winter brings us, with our cupboards full, the wood stove burning to keep us warm and act as a back up stove top, water and lots of blankets for warmth I believe we will be set. 

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