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The Story of Us: Part 18.

April 14, 2022 by Adrienne 1 Comment

Another update.

Read part one here.
Read part two here.
Read part three here.
Read part four here.
Read part five here.
Read part six here.
Read part seven here.
Read part eight here.
Read part nine here.
Read part ten here.
Read part eleven here.
Read part twelve here.
Read part thirteen here.
Read part fourteen here.
Read part fifteen here.
Read part sixteen here.
Read part seventeen here.

So many years have past since I updated the story of us. These links can all be found at the page listed at the top, and this is an update to those. If you’ve followed along with my blog, most of this will be in there. Otherwise, to catch up to current:

Stellan Wyatt was baby #8. He brought the boy count to three, but girls still kept their lead with five girls.

Four years later in 2020, right at the start of the “pandemic”, we had baby #9. Creed James brought the boy count closer to tied.

We sold our house in Missouri in April 2021. We moved north to my home state of South Dakota and planned to stay with my parents while we established jobs and found an acreage to buy near them.

Blaine got a job driving a double trailered semi hauling grain. Liberty began working at the grain elevator and began her final year in her associates degree. Eden trained and became a certified nurse assistant. She worked at a nursing home and also at an assisted living home. I kept my job from Missouri doing bookkeeping for a flight school there since I can work online from home exclusively.

In 2021, 15 months after Creed was born, baby #10 completed our family. Lachlan Hyde evened the numbers at five boys, five girls. He came with a scary emergency birth and I had a hysterectomy after he was born. My years of pregnancy are over. That comes with some seriously mixed feelings, but after six years of struggling with adenomysis symptoms, a diagnosis that the same issue caused the emergency for Lach, it’s over. I feel better that way than I have in a very long time.

Ten months later, we’ve searched and bid at auctions, met many realtors, called on so many listings, and driven miles upon miles. We have yet to find a home we can afford on a couple acres. The housing market of 2022 went crazy and prices sky rocketed. We’ve completed another homeschooling year here. Eden finished her senior year of high school, and Liberty is graduating from college next month. Sterling finished 9th grade, Ruby finished 8th grade, Charlotte 6th, Pierce 5th, Elliot 2nd, and Stellan is done with kindergarten. It was our first year in over a decade without a homeschool co-op. It went decently well all things considering, but it feels like we’re just floating.

The future is unknown.

← Still waiting.
Potty training #9, shiny old mini bikes, and a new way to bathe. →

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About Adrienne

A homeschooling mother of ten, ages 18 and under, I chronicle life, laughs, struggles, and lessons learned as I raise a larger-than-most sized family and try to laugh about the craziness.

Comments

  1. Charlotte Moore says

    April 14, 2022 at 8:36 pm

    I know you are so proud of your kiddos for all they have accomplished. You have really done a lot as their teacher. It shows with what they are capable of doing.

    Things may be a bit unsettled for you all at the moment but… HE has it all in HIS control. It is in HIS timing.

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