first thing that I do is the same thing I do 365 days of the year first thing I
do is I make my bed I get dressed I make my bed and I start my day
my mother instilled in me at a very young age for presentation in other
words to try to look your best even when there's nothing special going on now she
didn't put a lot of emphasis on beauty and she didn't put a lot of emphasis on
the materialistic side of just keeping yourself presentable but she always said
as a mom and as a wife to try to look your best and that's what I try to do
now it's time for laundry I'm sorry it's a little dark it's early in the morning
so I take a garden hose and it has water and we work on the laundry my mother was
a very particular housekeeper but my mother didn't homestead after I was born
so my mother didn't do any gardening or things like that it's good about having
clean presentation and the beginning of my channel I used to change my clothes
all the time because I didn't want you seeing me dirty but I realized we have
to be a realistic in life and there's times in our lives that it is dirty we
get dirty and muddy and I stop doing that
so if there's embark on my clothing or a smudge on my face I allow you to see
that because in life you have to be realistic because in life there are
times where you don't always look your best I love my homemade soap I just use
a little bit of it this is my homemade lavender laundry soap that I did a video
and a couple weeks ago it's my favorite
so I'll just wait here a few moments until my laundry is ready to turn it on
so the laundry's started now we can shut the door and we can get on to other
chores thing I'd like to do is I'd like to sweep off of my porches and that's
before I even clean the inside of my house so I'm going to go ahead and we're
going to sweep off all these porches
right the outside work is finished now we gotta start an inside whoo it's humid
out here today we're gonna make a simple chicken and rice soup but we're gonna
use the crock pot and one thing I really love about having a pantry is all the
items I can put in here it didn't cost me hardly anything so we're gonna get
started we have some of my corn which I have a video on all of these items that
you seek and I have a video on and I will share with you and the tag above or
I will share it with you at the end of the video so we're not gonna even drain
the corn we're going to use the liquid from the corn because the liquid has a
lot of the nutrients in it so we're going to use 2 pints of the corn and
we're going to start off with 2 quarts of chicken broth now this chicken broth
I got the chicken for 29 cents a pound so basically this broth was just about
free then I had some leftover carrots which I showed in the video where I was
canning them we're just gonna throw the carrots in because basically this soup
is going to be a little bit of everything
here is my 29 cents a pound chicken I can 2nf froze it so this is actually a
frozen block of it but that's fine because we're gonna put it in the crock
pot now we also have some rice that we also have some rice that is already
cooked we're not going to add that until this is about an hour in because we
don't want to get the rice too mushy so we're going to turn the crock-pot on I'm
going to set it on high for about an hour and then we'll see what we need to
do next
all right so I add a little bit of my garlic bread the bread itself was only
about 69 cents and then we added some garlic powder and some butter to it and
some parsley and now our soup is complete so this is the chicken and rice
soup and look how good it looks and these are the carrots so it only took a
matter of just getting it into a good heat everything was pretty much canned
and frozen put a little my smoked salt on it a little bit of pepper and we got
a very good and healthy meal it didn't make a lot of heat in the kitchen
because we used our crock-pot I hope you enjoyed a walk in my shoes today and I
hope you took something from this video
even though my life is very ordinary I try to show you how an ordinary life can
be extraordinary just by the way you look at it
I'm working on the seeds that I saved from some of my flowers so I can plant
them for next year that's very ordinary but the
extraordinary thing is when you plant them they turn into beautiful flowers
that's what I want to see in life I wanna see your life ordinary turned an
extraordinary just by the everyday love of it all we have hard days we have days
that are very disappointing in our lives but remember you're not alone brush it
off and get up each day even if it is doing the same thing 365 days of the
year take everyone I'll see guys tomorrow
friends it's the end of another day on the homestead and I wanted just to
share with you just a video of walking in my shoes today and I hope that you
have been blessed and I hope that you have been encouraged by my videos
you