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| catscharm74 |
Posted - May 10 2008 : 7:16:30 PM
Especially on the weekends? If I get invited somewhere, I like to go for about 2-3 hours and come home. I just putter around the house, sit in the sun, play with Charlie and make yummy, bad for my hips food. We sometimes pile all the cushions on the floor and watch movies all day. I do not do any chores more than if something needs to be washed and cleaning up from cooking. I am not anti-social, but large crowds do exhaust me out. I can usually stay home for long periods of time, then I go out for just a few hours and get my fix of "life" out there and am so happy to be home. I do better one on one or maybe three, but more than that I go into a frenzy. I am a nester too. I like to make my house cozy to our standards and half the time it looks like a big wind came through and tore up the place but it is home. How about you?
Heather
Yee-Haw, I am a cowgirl!!!
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| handyam |
Posted - May 17 2008 : 7:33:44 PM
I love being at home. I retired 7 years ago, and up until that time I was always gone. Right out of high school I began college--days, nights, summers. Then I began my 29 year teaching career. I did my Masters and Rank I programs at night, on Saturdays and summers for years. I really didn't know what "being home" consisted of even for a couple of years after I retired. I couldn't settle down into a somewhat "routine". I think I have it figured out now. Go when you can, do what you want and save some time for laundry and cooking!!!!!
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| Txfarmgal |
Posted - May 17 2008 : 7:00:58 PM
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Originally posted by catscharm74
Especially on the weekends? If I get invited somewhere, I like to go for about 2-3 hours and come home. I just putter around the house, sit in the sun, play with Charlie and make yummy, bad for my hips food. We sometimes pile all the cushions on the floor and watch movies all day. I do not do any chores more than if something needs to be washed and cleaning up from cooking. I am not anti-social, but large crowds do exhaust me out. I can usually stay home for long periods of time, then I go out for just a few hours and get my fix of "life" out there and am so happy to be home. I do better one on one or maybe three, but more than that I go into a frenzy. I am a nester too. I like to make my house cozy to our standards and half the time it looks like a big wind came through and tore up the place but it is home. How about you?
Heather
Yee-Haw, I am a cowgirl!!!
FARMGIRL #90
we are busy most weekends with girls stuff but i love to stay home when i can!!!
AngiK
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| Farm Girl 2 |
Posted - May 17 2008 : 05:19:36 AM
I have loved reading this post. I am sooooo happy to see that others feel the same way about staying home.
Jenn, I too love to just sit in my barn and look around, look outside the barn doors at my garden, listen to the animals in their little chatter and the birds singing. The big lazy cat loves laying beside my feet. The other day my DD and family were here and she was in the barn with me while milking my dairy goat and we got caught in there in a terrible rain storm. I said go ahead and make a run for the house and she said "No I'll just sit here and enjoy the barn. It is so nice to just sit and look around." (That's why I have 2 chairs in the barn for times like these!) I agreed. I can sit there for a while and daydream but then reality slaps me in the face and reminds me that I have too many chores to do to just sit there!!!!!
Becky
Loving Living Simply!
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| mellaisbella |
Posted - May 14 2008 : 04:31:26 AM
I heard a person describe themselves as "an intoverted extrovert" and that is me ...Toatally! I am very outgoing and a social butterfly, but Ilove nothing better than to be at home puttering around. I too love watching my chickens do their thing outside, pecking at the ground and following each other.
There truly is no place like home!!
"learn to watch snails" SARK |
| Back Home Again |
Posted - May 13 2008 : 11:19:57 PM
I really love my home .... I love curling up with a good book by the fire and reading ..... I love working in my studio with the New Mexico Sun shining through ......I love cooking in my kitchen ..... and I love the peacefulness I feel when planting my flowers and vegetables .....YUP, I love being at home .... BUT..... I ALSO love ... being part of the energy of the city and getting together with friends and partaking in the Arts Community .... I need to have both to feel a balance. I love being active followed by quiet or quiet followed by activity! And I love that all of us can enjoy life differently... I love diversity of people that can still walk side by side!
Until Later,
Audrey
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| farmama_3k4h |
Posted - May 13 2008 : 7:57:53 PM
I am very much a homebody. It is not that I do not like people, it is just that I love home. I have many domestic interests and hobbies as well as outdoor hobbies. THere is always plenty to do and enjoy with small children on a farm. I have been criticized for not being extremely active in the community. I am interested in the community, however, I feel that God has called me to be home with my chidren, to teach them and to foster their interests.
Home should be a haven, somewhere to long to spend time and make it a place to enjoy for generations to come.
Ribbons -n- Rags
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| joyfulmama |
Posted - May 13 2008 : 2:10:06 PM
I am such a homebody! I would prefer to be at home over anywhere else..
Blessings, Debra
Psalms 23:1 "The Lord is my shepherd I shall not want."
"Your life is an occasion, Rise to it." Mr Magorium..
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| farmgirl blessings |
Posted - May 13 2008 : 10:01:34 AM
Oh Jenn, that is such a worthy goal ~ "to make my home the best vacation spot I know." Thanks for that inspiration!
Blessings, Lea
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| La Patite Ferme |
Posted - May 13 2008 : 09:31:59 AM
My goal is to make my home the best vacation spot I know. With relaxing places to lounge around in the sun and beautiful gardens to look at or putter in. I love just sitting in my barn or outside watching the chickens and lambs do their thing. DD and I are very much like all of you - homebodies.
But, I also think we need to get out amongst humanity once in awhile to reinforce our goals and preferences. I just returned from a week-long business conference where I had to be "ON" all the time. You know the drill - chatty, clever, professional and charming. Man was I exhasted at the end of each day. I get soooo tired of explaining what I do and why I do it (the farmgirl stuff) that I really don't want to talk at all. I had a great time though at the cities indoor farmers market - great place.
I was sooo glad to get home though, see how much our new chicks had grown and just sit and watch DD as she worked her lambs for an upcoming show.
Plus, when I'm gone my garden falls behind and I don't get to work on special projects AND, I hate fighting the traffic, the crowds, dimwitted sales people, and just plain rude people.
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| nelia48 |
Posted - May 13 2008 : 06:21:52 AM
I'm such a homebody, you might as well call me a hermit. I love sitting on my porch watching birds, etc., or sitting in my easy chair stitching, etc. I'm always glad to get out, but after about an hour, I want to get back home! Cora
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| Aunt Em |
Posted - May 12 2008 : 10:49:36 PM
I love to stay home too, especially on the rare occasions I get the house all to myself! (I have 4 kids, age 8 and under) I actually have a day this weekend where that is going to happen. This time though I am heading out! Its going to be a gorgeous sunny warm weekend, and I am going on a solo hike and then to the plant nursery and then home again to garden and craft all by my happy little self. 
Farmgirl Sister #138
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| Aunt Jenny |
Posted - May 12 2008 : 10:30:48 PM
I LOVE to be at home and do all I can to be here as much as I can. I work part time (substitute teacher at the elementary school) and I am involved in alot of stuff, but for the most part I prefer to have everyone just come HERE. I don't mind a crowd at my own house. I do love to go fishing and camping alot..but short trips..no more than 2 nights if I can..day trips even make me happier. I havn't been away from home for more than a week in about 4 years..and I am no hurry to be gone longer.
Jenny in Utah
Proud Farmgirl sister #24
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| emsmommy5 |
Posted - May 12 2008 : 6:30:48 PM
I am so busy with work, the Fire Department, kids activities, etc. that I relish the times I do get to stay home. I have been setting up my sewing/crafting/art room and love to just go in there and create. I love having time to cook, bake and hang out at home. The kids wanted to go out for dinner yesterday and I told them to just go pick up something and we would hang out at home. I love being home. I don't do big crowds. I don't like going to the movies. I do like going into the mountains hiking and mountain biking when I am trying to escape home!!!
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| sewgirlie |
Posted - May 12 2008 : 5:41:04 PM
I'd rather be home than anywhere at all. My entire family is like that. We work around the house, run an errand or two and then hang out here doing lazy stuff sometimes (reading, writing, watching movies, sitting out with the dogs and chickens) and we garden and fish together. On Monday morning, I look forward to being home for the weekend.
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| Maryjane Lee |
Posted - May 12 2008 : 5:26:02 PM
I L O V E to stay home! I Love to be in the yard, do crafts and visit with family & friends. I do occasionaly like to get out in my little vintage trailer and go fly fishing with my DH! heehee!
Hugs, Maryjane Lee
Farmgirl Sister #44
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| junkjunkie |
Posted - May 12 2008 : 5:14:10 PM
Well, looks like I'm in good company....and I find it to be a relief. lol! Every weekend I think, ok, I'll go to this place or that place...then I become too comfortable and say the heck with it. I've always been a homebody at heart and I enjoy puttering around the home. I do get my 'fix' every now and then...then I'm satisfied for a while. Beside working during the week, I also do a lot of things during my lunch hour and after work, so I don't mind hanging on the weekend.
"To have life in focus, we must have death in our field of vision." Benedictine monk John Main |
| CountryBorn |
Posted - May 12 2008 : 3:06:54 PM
I like to be home and I like to go. Between being a stay at home Mom and then us being in farming and the greenhouse businress for so long I didn't ever really get to go anywhere during those years.We didn't go on a trip anywhere except once to Niagara Falls with the kids, then when we were married 30 yrs. my daughter and son in law sent us to Virgina to a beautfiul Bed and Breakfast. We went to Colonial Williamsburg and both of us found out we liked to travel.(car travel is our way) When I was a kid I would be out and going non stop. Now there is a happy medium. I do love to be home, but I do love to go too! Like Frannie says these are the freedom years and I really enjoy them.
MJ
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| electricdunce |
Posted - May 12 2008 : 12:11:07 PM
I'm also a real homebody. I loved to travel when I was young, but I'm happiest in my own nest these days....Karin
Farmgirl Sister #153
"Give me shelter from the storm" - Bob Dylan
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| joanieh |
Posted - May 12 2008 : 09:11:54 AM
I love to stay at home, too. But with a non-driving teenager that isn't possible! Luckily my husband has always had housing where he works as a park ranger, so in 24 years of marriage he has always been home for lunch and dinner. If I had my choice, I wouldn't leave home, but when the land of stores and shopping is 40 miles away, you have to go at least every 3 weeks or so. When we lived in town, I spent a lot more money on food. |
| TabithaLenox |
Posted - May 12 2008 : 07:41:19 AM
I'm a homebody too! I've been a SAHM for years and now that my son is 17 yrs old, people keep asking me what I'm going to do next. I tell them I'm going to stay home and continue to do all the chores I take care of during the week so we can relax and do fun things on the weekend. Everyone just seems to assume that I'm not happy being home alone but I love it and am so grateful everyday that I can!
Kim
Farmgirl #184
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| JessieMae |
Posted - May 12 2008 : 07:20:10 AM
Since I'm afraid to fly, my travel options are very limited, so I guess I fall into the category of homebody. I like to travel (by car or by train), but most of the time I'm content to be home. |
| GiGi58 |
Posted - May 12 2008 : 07:10:43 AM
Well, I am pretty much a homebody, too, but because I have a job with a large mortgage company, I am forced to get out and be amongst people here in the big city and drive in the insanity of millions of people on the road at any given time -- not my idea of fun at all. If I had my druthers, I would be staying at home doing all of the domestic and home-type things that I like to do, taking rides in the country, spending time with my children and grandchildren -- letting that true blue farm girl come out of hiding. I don't consider myself anti-social (just the opposite), but the preference would be to stay on the home front. The goal, for me, is to be moved to Montana by the end of September, before the snow flies and I can't move (although, I do have to admit that the Winters here in Arizona are so mild and there is no snow, but I even miss that -- the changing of the seasons). So, give me the countryside and you will find one very happy camper.
"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover. - Mark Twain" |
| Annab |
Posted - May 12 2008 : 06:39:33 AM
Relieved to know I'm not the only one who feels this way.
Living out here in the country, I feel I might miss something.
I love walking in the woods w/ my dog and hearing nothing but the birds.
I do like to go on the occasional date w/ hubby and see movies w/ friends. It's better if I can be off from work and kind of "prepare" rather than rushing home and trying to fit in chores.
We recently started spending time w/ friends who have a huge fenced in yard w/ 2 dogs of their own. They love cooking and share very similar interests. And best of all, they only live 6 miles away. Other friends live much further, so it's a major undertaking. And I hate driving at night.
I'm so afraid of becoming a recluse and getting dimentia/atlzheimers, so sometimes I force myself to get out w/ friends, even if it's just for an hour or two. (I'm only 38, but have watched grandmothers and close elderly friends slip further and further when their spouse dies and they can't get out.)
So most of you gals sound like the typical type B. It's the gregarious type A's who get energized from large crowds and a full social schedule.
kissmekate, I too feel better when I hang out w/ my folks. I'm very much aware of the fast passage of time and don't want to waste a minute. Mom and I usually go on shopping forays once a month. She drives, I buy lunch. At 65, she and my dad are incradibly active, so I feel blessed to not have your typical old fart stick in the mud parent. THEY don't sit for very long at all! |
| CabinCreek-Kentucky |
Posted - May 12 2008 : 05:24:20 AM
I ADORE OUR HOME ... and being here with honey-hunk .. AND .. i ADORE ROAMING THE ROADS ... being in our 'freedom years' .. i have no firm 'commitments' ... soooo .. since i own every moment of my time .. i stay home when i wanna' and i roam the roads when i wanna'. i'm MUCH too MUCH a SOCIAL butterfly to stay at home all the time. I adore my friends and goin' on adventures with them.
True Friends * Frannie
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| Canadian farmgirl |
Posted - May 12 2008 : 04:59:37 AM
For the most part, I'd rather be at home here, too! Especially after the hustle and bustle of running off to work all week, and dealing with people all day, I just want to stay home and putter around here. Actually, yesterday (Mother's Day) my family offered to take me out for dinner, to this big Chinese food restaurant that has a great buffet, but I told them I'd rather avoid the big crowd and would be just as happy with a couple of good pizzas at home, so that's what we did!
Lori
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