304. Toy Clutter, Baby Sleep, and Teen Drivers: Life in a Fast-Moving Season + More Q&A

Simple Farmhouse Life

Lisa Bass

Home & Garden, Leisure

4.9 • 2.1K Ratings

🗓️ 26 August 2025

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

Life in this season feels full of change– new babies, teenagers gaining independence, and the daily rhythms that keep our large family moving forward. In this episode, I share my real experiences with co-sleeping, freshly milled wheat, toys and clutter, pregnancy challenges, car seats, and the everyday questions you’ve asked about homemaking and homesteading. I also talk about the farmhouse build alongside my sister, our different approaches to decision-making, and the long-term dreams I have for life on the farm. Join me for this Q&A style conversation where your questions guide the discussion and I share the simple, intentional rhythms that shape our home and family!

In this episode, we cover:

My experience with co-sleeping through many babies, how my approach has shifted, and the safe sleep setups that work best for us
Why I use freshly milled wheat in my baking and whether I’ve noticed any health differences in our family
How we approach toys and gifts in our home— letting the kids enjoy them fully and then decluttering when the interest fades
Pregnancy challenges I’ve faced, including varicose veins, and the simple things that help like magnesium and extra rest
Our current car seat setup with a new baby on the way, plus the big milestone of having a teenager with a driver’s license and how quickly family dynamics shift
Everyday homemaking and homestead questions— from spiders and ticks to kids’ haircuts, dishwashers, and the routines that keep our large family moving
My thoughts on building our farmhouse at the same time as my sister, the differences between how we approach home decisions, and the long-term dreams I have for animals on our farm
Listener questions on sourdough starters, selling our house plans, and other homemaking challenges, all bringing me back to simple, intentional rhythms

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Unfortunately, for our consumer culture, a lot of things just aren't made to last these days.
0:05.8	But I guess fortunately, that means that nothing's around all that long.
0:12.2	I don't stop people from getting the kids' toys.
0:15.6	I'm not saying, okay, we do it this way, so nobody bring these kind of things into our home.
0:20.6	We just assess as children
0:22.4	inevitably get tired of the toys that they have though we don't keep a ton of things we get toys
0:28.6	for christmas birthdays it's really fun i don't just take them away i just let them play with it for
0:33.6	however long that plays out my name is l, mother of eight and creator of the blog and
0:38.6	YouTube channel Farmhouse on Boone. On this podcast, I like to talk about simplifying your life
0:43.3	so you can live out your priorities. I help you learn how to cook from scratch and decorate
0:47.2	on a budget through this podcast and my courses simple sourdough in the simple sewing series. I also
0:53.0	help people reach their goals from home
0:54.9	through my business course, YouTube Success Academy. I will leave links to these resources in the show
0:59.4	notes and description box below. Now let's get into the show. Welcome back to the Simple
1:07.3	Farmhouse Life podcast. Today I am going to be doing another solo episode where I just
1:13.4	am inspired by you all and what you put into the Google sheet that we put out there to talk about.
1:21.6	So I get questions from sourdough to life update stuff like house building and pregnancy to parenthood stuff. And I do my
1:31.2	best to share with you from the experience that I currently have. So take that for what you will.
1:39.0	And let's dive into some of these questions. Okay. the first one is about co-sleeping.
1:47.5	So it's been a little bit since I've co-slept because I moved Victor out of our room somewhere,
1:55.4	or not out of our room, but out of our bed, somewhere around age one, and he just turned two. So I've had a year completely off
2:03.7	of co-sleeping, but very soon here I will be having another baby that will be in our bed
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