We will also be sitting down this weekend to plan out our garden for the year. My goal this year is to grow more of what we eat, compared to last year. I am finally going to learn to can our excess garden surplus this year, just watch! I’d like to get a medicinal herb garden going, so that we can do more natural treatments at home. Oh and I would like to get some stuff growing for the chickens as well.

Speaking of chickens, we plan to add a few more to our flock this year. I may or may not attempt a couple of strictly meat birds in that mix as well. It all depends on what I can get away with. We also need to plan to rebuild/extend our coop. We bought one of those Wal-Mart coops because we were in a pinch and while it has worked out ok so far, it’s definitely not a good coop for our wet PNW climate. It’s a good thing that Aaron snagged a whole bunch of pallets from his work over the summer.

That pretty much only leaves some more homeschool planning and making some contingency plans in regards to my health. You can’t really plan for what Multiple Sclerosis is going to do because it is such an unpredictable disease, but we can plan for how to manage symptoms and what we will do in the even that I happen to have another flare. Basically, what it is going to boil down to is taking better control of my diet. That’s a blog (or two) for another day though.