Routine is what it is all about. I grew up on the family farm/ranch with my parents in one house, my grandparents in another house a few acres away, and my great grandmother in the old home place over the swamp behind our house on the hill. My brother lives in the old home place now, and I now own my grandparent’s place caring for my grandmother who has late stage dementia, my father and grandfather passed away some years back.
My grandfather ran cattle over several pieces of property (he had a rotation on pastures) we had multiple very large gardens that we tended by hand and the occasional hog for butchering and chickens. My parents worked outside the home (my mom worked at the school-she went to school to work when my brother and I started going to school so that was nice) my grandparents worked outside the home, yet we all pitched in and everything got done…might be exhausted at the end of everyday but dang we had fun. We kept a routine on the cows, watering, drip irrigation on the gardens etc. It worked out. I run a similar situation here, now along with homeschooling my two youngest and a few friend’s kids. It is doable with enough hands. 🙂
