The reason I took this question is I want to say that the playdates are for you.

So if you don't enjoy them, don't stress it. Those age kids, they don't have to have 10 friends that are all age 2 and a half in order to be properly socialized. It's great to go out and about. I think for a lot of moms, it helps their mental well-being to see other moms, to feel like they're a part of a community.

That's definitely how it felt for me when I was in those early years.

But if you don't enjoy it, it's stressful, it's too hard.

I would just say, don't worry about it.

That just is what worked best for me.

It's what felt the most restful, encouraging, exciting for motherhood was when I was doing that kind of stuff.

My name is Lisa, mother of eight and creator of the blog and YouTube channel Farmhouse On Boone. On this podcast, I like to talk about simplifying your life so you can live out your

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description box below. Now let's get into the show. Welcome back to the Simple Farmhouse Life podcast. Today I'm going to be doing another solo

episode answering some of your questions from the Google sheet that we put out there over a year

ago now, I guess, because I did these all last year as well. Now, if I end up running out of

questions, which at some point I'm definitely going to, I will just go back to the interviews or talk about the house build.

So I'll give you a quick update on that. If you follow me over on YouTube on my main channel, Farmhouse on Boone, I did share the house plan.

So the design and the design process and how we came about with the house that we are currently building. So that's really exciting. So far, at time of recording, we have the basement in, but we haven't yet started framing, which hopefully we do very, very soon. It feels like there's like stuff's happening and then all of a sudden stuff just stops. And I've heard that's pretty typical all throughout the entire process as you're waiting for another person to finish up maybe like the last house they're working on. So we're in that now and I'm sure we'll continue to be. I am in the phase of realizing there are certain things that I need

to order now, even though the house isn't even framed yet. So that's something with building that

I didn't really know the timeline. But as I'm working with Brent Hall and I kind of shared about

that over on my other video, he's definitely helping me along the way know some of that stuff. So even though

the house, there's like, you know, it's just a basement, you'd think, what would you have to worry

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