You're listening to the old-fashioned on-purpose podcast, where ambitious people master the art of returning to their roots.

Have you found yourself disenchanted with society or wishing you could

opt out of the rat race? Perhaps you're craving a life that's meaningful and tangible,

a life where you can create and produce instead of merely consume.

I'm Jill Winger, best-selling author and longtime homesteader.

Over the last 10 years, I've helped thousands of families create more connection, grow amazing organic food, and find the ultimate fulfillment through an old-fashioned lifestyle.

And I can do the same for you. Now on to our episode.

Welcome back friends. We are continuing on with our theme of origins this season

and in today's episode we're talking about birthing babies and

blogs. This was a season of our life when there was a lot of new life happening around our homestead, the two-legged

kind, the four-legged kind, and the digital kind. So here we go. So we bought our house in 2008 and we decided that 2009, 2010 we wanted to start a family.

And it was always kind of the plan from the beginning

that I would quit my job whenever I got pregnant

so I could stay at home with our kids.

That was just something that was really important to me.

My mom was a stay at home mom.

And not to mention, driving to my job

and then paying for daycare, the cost of daycare and the gas money would have

negated my income as a vet tech.

So it just made a lot of sense from multiple angles for me to be the one to stop working and stay home with the babies.

So I got pregnant.

I was sicker than a dog with actually all three of my pregnancies, but the first one which is always a shocker when you're going through it the first time and you're like I'm gonna die because I can't stop throwing up but y yep, that was me.

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