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"What must look like an 18-year-old re-usable cloth diaper after it has been through nine children? Like this. "

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Katie is a home-schooling mother of nine children. The two oldest are studying A-Levels at college and the youngest is a toddler. Her husband is a math teacher who also operates a rental for extra income. Is your family obsessed with road Cycling, and Last Summer one of her sons, won a local triathlon.

she has used cloth diapers for all of her nine children: "they still work just fine, by the way, and have saved us a penny bonny over The Years . "

she also says she has three wonderful cats and also holds "too many" pigeons and doves, rabbits, quail, and gerbils. You crochet like, Grow Vegetables and go camping.

Katie 's week: Chinese medicine, Bicycle frames, pigeon Food and stewTo the beginning of the week I made a huge pot of stew, the decent my 15-year-old son later honored with the award as a "half-way. "Feeling dizzy with joy to hear such extravagant praise, I feel it is only fair to The Recipe with the world, the no doubt breathless with anticipation.

Katie hold Katie ' s " half decent" stew

£5. 89The price of a budget, healthy meal for 11

£2Yoghurt

- £1. 89Red lenses

50pOnions

50pCarrots

£1Frozen Peas

method

1. Fry three chopped onion, five cloves of garlic, five of grated carrot and a large grated pumpkin-type thing (homegrown so I'm not sure what it is exactly) in the coconut oil until the juice has evaporated and the vegetable tanning.

2. Add a large serving spoon, ras-el-hanout (cheapest source is The Internet ) and a teaspoon of turmeric (from the Asian supermarket), three cans of chopped tomatoes, 1 is. 5 litres of homemade chicken broth and 1 kg of dry red split lentils. When the mixture boils, reduce The Heat , cover and simmer until the lentils are cooked (at least an hour). Stir occasionally to prevent the lentils sticking and burning.

3. Add chopped green vegetables to have on hand (Today , this, frozen Peas ) with salt and pepper and cook until the vegetables are done. You Put some aside for the freezer and keep the rest for the upcoming week.

4. Serve with rice and yoghurt with chopped, fresh coriander.

Here I Am with six of my children. The oldest of four did not want to be photographed.

expenditure: £5. 89

I my phone with € 10 Today , send my account balance to explode to a whopping £11. 36. I can do it this reckless purchase, make noise, because (wait for it) will be refunded Etsy have me. £92 for a non-existent image that I Paid for two months In fact, I Paid £102 for this myth, if you include taxes, so you have to have £10 for two months, nothing but a beautiful dream.

I defrost the freezer and make stock with all The Sheep , bones, and trotters, which would be Lost in its icy depths. The local butchers sold the bones really, really cheap and gives us left over Chicken Bones for free. They make fantastic camp and The Cats eat all the leftovers and waste of meat.

recipe for camp

1. Put the bones and all vegetable parings in a pan.

2. Cover with water, and as soon as it has boiled, cover and simmer on a very low heat for hours and hours and hours to get the nutrients from the bones.

Before and after pictures of the bone stock:

When I got The Car in the evening, it has The Deep , unmistakable roar of a broken exhaust that really needs to be replaced. Something Else that will Cost money to fix!

expenditure: £10

won a Total of: £92

A blessed cheap house teaching day Today . After this morning, in math class I don't cut my seven-year-old son's Hair (£0 - oh, to spend how good it feels, money! ). The Kids carving three Pumpkins (£2 Per pumpkin). We Put the pumpkin seeds on a baking sheet to dry for our pet to eat gerbils and rabbits, and I cook the meat for the soup.

All In All, home schooling is one of our most expensive lifestyle choices. Each GCSE Our Children Cost £500 - £1000 in exam fees, workbooks, Tutors, textbooks, revision guides, etc. This is on top of the costs needed to The Children through their primary years, and the financing of numerous projects and Hobbies that you have purchased. The biggest Cost , however, is that I do not invest myself in the work, in a career and earn money. On the plus side, it is rewarding work, and I Am convinced that the benefits for Our Children in terms of their personal freedom and independence, to make home schooling it is Worth It (most of the time anyway).

I Put £10 on the new Sim card that I bought for my 16-year-old the phone. This means that we have Lost £2. 52 he had said on his old Sim card, which O2 had, they would refund, but failed. I can't be bothered with the effort of the hunt for the £2. 52, to be honest.

As The Weather began to turn, I light a fire in the evening. This works for free as we save the wood and let it dry out over the summer. Here is a picture...

expenditure: £16

Today we are expecting guests, another home-schooling family, for lunch. I nip to our local Aldi with my nine-year-old buy and £9. 19 in the value of salad and cheese for lunch (jacket potatoes with a salad). We pop in The Post to send To My daughters' pen friend a package with a painted stone you will is convinced that a dinosaur tooth, although I have my doubts. I also spend 61p on a second-class stamp and buy yourself a game from our local charity shop for £2.

when Returning Home I have a heated exchange of words with my 15 years old, when I ask Him to go back to the shops, I have just so he can buy the cans of sweet corn, I forget to three minutes. He mutters darkly about shopping lists and their uses, from, until, amazingly, my 16-year-old son volunteers to go. I give Him £5. He returns with two extremely cheap cans of corn and says he needs to change for the college.

I'm making apple crumble with apples from The Garden for pudding (the roses are A Gift from our guests).

expenditure: £16. 80

With a large family, we are constantly choosing how and where it is Best to spend our money. We save a lot by cooking From Scratch and avoiding processed foods (which are expensive and unsatisfactory), and most of our stuff, we buy second-hand. We buy and scour The Internet for bulk to reduce the bargain, and our grocery bill and use our possessions, until they break, fall apart or dissolve.

However, I don't want our kids to be deprived of Grow Up with the feeling or worse, our so old-fashioned, low-tech, penny-pinching ways. When I squirt I want to make it on worthwhile experiences; real things, the memories. This is to justify my roundabout way to the £110. 42 I Paid Today , enter a Cycling sportive. My husband is on the shortest path with four children, while our oldest of three children, "The Monster ", which is about 93 km.

When my husband comes home, he is elated, to tell me, the headmaster of his school, took Him aside, thanked Him for all his hard work and promised he would ask the President to give Him a salary increase. He doubts this will actually lead to an increase in salary, because The School has no money, but there is always a chance.

We have the leftovers for lunch to spend now on Food .

expenditure: £110. 42

I've always wondered why, in spite of the five drying agents in The House , it is a persistent patch of moisture on my bedroom wall. Last Night in the storm, a leak revealed directly above said wall. The steady drip of water kept me awake, but the rhythmic helped, apparently, my husband to sleep again. I look about 100 years old, in The Morning . The roof will be repaired, the other costs lie in wait for us.

Seven of Our Children start The Day by going for a bike ride. Unfortunately, our oldest son has found that his Bicycle frame is cracking to the rear brake and that leaves Him with the options:

1. Racing through Yorkshire's beautiful, steep hills, with reduced braking ability (his suggestion, not mine).

2. Buying a second-hand road bike.

3. Buying a used carbon frame (we agree that it is Best ).

He finds an okay frame on eBay, bidding ends tomorrow and is currently at £41.

I'll Take Three of Our Children for Swimming Lessons every weekend. Although this is a significant Cost (£25. 50 Per week for three children) it's totally Worth It .

Here My Daughter is feeding pigeons Chicks.

expenditure: £207

I refuel The Car in the amount of £50. 54.

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