Your questions, my answers

Your questions, my answers. Lets have a quick q&a session so y’all can get all your questions answered all at once!

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I’ve got a hot cup of breve coffee by my side and I felt like chatting with y’all today.

I usually do these Q&A’s on Instagram, but I decided the blog deserved to have some of the attention.

Q: So curious how you have/make time to create? Blogs, YT, IG, etc on top of everything that comes with being a homemaker, mother, etc

A: It takes a lot of scheduling and multi-tasking.

Also, maybe most importantly is bringing my children along with me while I’m working on things.

We do reading, quality time and any schoolwork in the morning to make sure it doesn’t get left behind. That’s one of our constants (unless we have an appointment in the morning).

Then after that we usually start working on some cleaning, I bring them alongside me so they can learn to clean as well. They are still at the age where they love it, they’re thrilled to help me scrub something!

We eat lunch and then it’s nap/quiet time. While they nap I do some business work and some of my weekly cleaning.

We have the whole afternoon to play outside or do an activity and then another project.

Make dinner.

Then after dinner Luke gets the kids ready for bed while I clean the kitchen and sweep the floors. I like to always have the kitchen “put to bed” so I wake up to a clean workspace.

Then after family worship and the kids are in bed I write a blog post or work on instagram while me and Luke sit together and watch a show. I have a hard time just sitting and watching something so I make sure to keep my time productive and that’s when I get the most amount of work done for my online business.

It takes a lot of intentionality to get everything done that I need to do. And my to-do list is never done. But I do what I can and I love bringing my kiddos along to help. It teaches them a lot and we get a lot of extra quality time in.

Q: Do you homeschool your little ones?

A: Yes! Both me and my husband were homeschooled all the way through highschool and loved it! Our parents equipped us very well with what we needed to know for adult life and instilled a love of learning! We want to give our kids the same experience.

Sofia has just started preschool and it’s still super laid back but she is lovinggg it! She always reminds me to do her “school work” and its super cute.

Q: Is it necessary to take high vitamin butter oil with cod liver oil? How is it different from plain old butter?

A: Yes you could eat a little spoonful of a high quality grassfed butter when you take your cod liver oil, but having them combined in the capsules makes it much easier not to forget. Taking them together makes the cod liver oil more digestible and the vitamins included more bio-available.

Here is the butter oil/cod liver oil we are referring to.

Use the code: WILSONHOMESTEAD to save on the CLO capsules

Q: What brand of clothes do you like for your kids?

A: Most of their clothes are thrifted, I like to support local businesses and keep clothing from heading to a land-fill. We, as a culture, are so consumer-minded and always seem to need something new, new, new, all the time, when gently-used clothing from thrift stores are just as good. Except it’s zero waste and it saves money!

If I can’t find what I need from the thrift store then I get them organic sustainably made items from small businesses like The Simple Folk Co.

Q: What shampoo do you use? Any homemade recipes that aren’t just diluted castile soap?

A: I only use diluted castile soap for my shampoo. I use 1/4 castile soap and 3/4 water, with a few drops of an essential oil like geranium or rosemary. That’s what I’ve used for the last 5 years and it’s worked great.

Read about my hair care routine here. The only thing I’ve changed is that I use a couple raw egg yolks in my hair before the shampoo and let them sit for awhile.

Q: Does each of your children have their own room?

A: No, Sofia and Dimi share a room. Vivian is in her own room right now, but its technically the office and it’s really small. We also use that room for seed starting and some storage. So once she’s old enough for a big bed then we will move her in with her two siblings. Once we remodel and equalize the size of the kid’s rooms then there will be a girls room and a boys room for them and all future siblings.

Q: What was the yellow paint you used to redo the mud room?

Q: Advice on kids healing cavities?

A: None of my kiddos have ever had a cavity, but there are some things I’ve done personally for myself to help heal some minor cavities. The same things that would work for an adult should generally be the same for kids.

I really love the remineralizing tooth putty from Bliss Energetics (code WILSONHOMESTEAD for a discount), it has just the most fabulous ingredients. You must head to their website and check out the before and after pictures of using this, it’s amazing! After brushing and flossing for the night, I spread this over my teeth to get some really good preventative mineralization and put my retainers on over it so it can soak in overnight. I’m working on just general de-mineralization from close pregnancies, but if you have a particular spot with a small cavity then you can apply it in just the one place.

Also using Black Walnut extract can be really helpful as well. I learned about this from the Be Your Own Doctor book by Rachel Weaver. She shared in there about using a few dropperfuls of black walnut extract in a little water, slosh it around for awhile and then swallow. Repeat after each meal and once before bed.

Those two things plus being sure to brush twice a day with hydroxyapatite toothpaste (not flouride) and floss twice a day as well. Doing all that religiously should help a ton.

Q: Tips for preventing tooth problems during pregnancy?

A: One super important thing for this is minerals. I really like taking shilajit along with beef liver capsules for this. Bee pollen is another fabulous whole food source of minerals.

Diet is also essential as well. You can’t just supplement your way out of a bad diet, although supplements do play an important role. So being sure to eat lots of grassfed meats, organ meats, raw milk and cheese, grassfed butter, bone marrow, bone broth, sauerkraut, all the good ancestral nourishing foods.

Being sure to brush and floss daily, and ideally twice a day.

You can even use some remineralizing tooth putty that I talked about in the last answer just preventitively.

Q: Where do you get your clothes? You have such great style!

A: Thank you so much!! I have a pretty particular style, it’s almost boho mixed with with sort of a farmhouse look. I get a lot of my dresses from thrift stores, and anything else that I can’t find there I get from places like Natural Life, Aya Sacredwear, The Simple Folk co, Christy Dawn, etc. And I try to get sustainably-made and organic if possible.

Q: What’s your skincare routine?

A: Nothing.

Maybe some tallow.

That’s mostly what I’ve used for the last several years. I don’t like to fuss much with it.

Plus I’ve discovered that most acne or skin problems come from gut or hormone imbalances so applying 5 different skincare items religiously every night won’t help you at all if you’re not getting to the root of the problem.

That being said. I’m experimenting (starting just this week), with some fun skincare items from one of my favorite clean companies, Toups & Co. I got one of their facial tonics, the seabuckthorn cleansing oil, and the glow serum. So far I have really enjoyed creating a little more of an evening routine with these and they are just fabulous quality and such clean ingredients. So if you like some skincare, try some Toups & Co.

Q: Kid’s swimwear recommendations?

A: My kiddos have used swimsuits from The Simple Folk co. in the past and we liked those. This year they have suits from Rylee + Cru and we really love them, they’re super cute!

Q: Were you raised on a homestead? If not, what motivated you to do it?

A: Yes I was, but Luke wasn’t.

We grew up raising chickens, Barbados sheep, hogs, ducks, horses. I trained problem horses and broke colts as one of my first jobs. I also started a little business raising a flock of Marans chickens and selling hatching eggs, day old chicks, pullets, etc.

So I came into starting our own homestead with quite a bit of experience, which has been really helpful!

Q: Advice for getting married out of highschool?

A: I actually found it to be not too difficult at all. Because I was so young I found it really easy to mesh into my new husband’s life. I feel like it would have been harder if I was older and more entrenched in my own separate life. But I went straight from my parent’s house to my husband’s.

Being willing to learn and take constructive criticism. You need to be willing to talk things out. You can’t just shut down and refuse to work things out. We ended up never fighting because I was used to listening to my parents, and they taught me well that I would be expected to submit to my husband. So I found it easier to default to Luke’s decision if we differed on our opinions.

That isn’t much of an answer, I know. But I found it to flow really naturally. My parents get a huge amount of credit for this because they made sure to talk to us about the fact that we would, Lord willing, get married someday. And they talked to us about what our roles would look like in a really Biblical way.

Q: Do you think you’re in your forever home?

A: I honestly don’t know.

We really thought this could be our forever home when we first moved here.

But as we are here longer it really is just too far away from family. It’s over an hour round trip to see any of our family members, so having easy help with the kids is a lot harder.

The land is really amazing and we could make it totally perfect for us, but it being so far away may be a deal breaker.

We will for sure keep ownership of it though. If we move, we will take a loan out, borrowed off our current property, to put down on the new place. Then we will put a renter in here to be covering our mortgage payment. Owning land is one of the best investments and it’ll eventually turn into passive income.

So either way we will keep the property, just whether or not we live on it or not.

Drop some more questions in the comments if you want me to do another Q&A!

And blessings!

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