To all the young parents out there ...READ to your children everyday...make a bedtime routine let them pick the book and give them 30 minutes of your time reading to them. I was never a strong reader growing up but I developed a love for reading at 25. Both my boys were 3 levels about grade in reading because I would read to them every night at bedtime. It truly is a gift you can give to them and if you are not a strong reader they won't care...❤
I read to my daughter's right after breakfast and night bed time. They too loved it and learned so much. My first daughter was reading Golden Books at 2 1/2. We lived across the street from a farm. Her favorite was horse. watching. Each morning we ate breakfast and Reading together with the horses. That was 45 years ago. Seems like yesterday. She's 47. I'm so GREATFUL THANKFUL FOR OUR TIME READING and HOME SCHOOLING. And that you Momma reads to your children. It's the BEST. We travel the WORLD together. GOD BLESS You and your family.🛐🌹🥀✝️☕☕🌟✨👍👏✝️💟❤️💖
Love the dynamics of your family! It’s very moving to see you all interact with each other the way you do. May the Lord continue to bless and restore you💕🙏🕊🌈⚘
BRI, your suncooked sweet potatoes are an indicator of how very busy you are with your many kiddos, homeschooling you tubing fractured marriage gardening ,harvesting,preserving and all that life throws at you. Everything happens for a reason. You Ms BRI Are doing a GREAT job. All your babies are healthy, thriving well and beautiful. I pray in the name of Jesus Christ for God to continue renewing your strength. Take one day at a time, beautiful lady. God is with you 🙏
Bri, I grew and harvested my potatoes recently. I placed them on the corner of my porch on newspaper for approximately two weeks to cure. They got afternoon sun. Worked great. I have large porch like you. Might give the last harvest a try on porch to cure.
Bri with each video I watch I’m always impressed by the amazing women and mother you are. And thank you for sharing the soccer game and play time. My children are in their 20’s and I deeply miss that. Watching children play was always a joy to me. ❤
Oh, honey, I'm so sorry. I'm just now watching but I'm also giving you a warm hug. 🧡 The enemy is seething at the progress your family's experiencing and he's definitely not above sucker punches. Remember, in the end, JESUS, destroys him with a Word. That same Jesus is holding your hands, right now. Rest in His peace and love. I love you.🙏🏼🧡
You really think satan ruined her sweet potatoe harvest, because her family is happy and back together? I’m so sorry you have such a warped belief system, that must be so hard😢 I Hope you one day learn to know that sad things just happen for no reason, no one is out to get us. Gods love is endless, nonjudgmental and for everyone. Evil is not out to get us, evil is the things we choose to do ,even though we know in our hearts, it’s wrong and that’s when we have to take the consequences of our actions. God does not want us to live in fear , so he would not let anything punish us for our happiness.
@@malina1239 I agree. As a Christian I hesitate to give credit to the evil one or say the name at all. Especially when I fall short and only have myself to blame. Bri took responsibility for the harvest gone bad... end of story. God does not desire for us to live in fear and look for the "enemy" everywhere or anytime life gets messy. That is not what Jesus taught His followers. When we struggle in this life we have the Holy Spirit to guide us and teach us wisdom and truth about ourselves so we grow Spiritually. Talking to or rebuking the devil based on our own opinions or feelings could lead to an over-emphasis which leads us astray. Some Church leaders base their whole ministry on waging war and casting out demons instead of the sin in ourselves. God's love is unconditional and sure. His mercies are new every morning.
@@malina1239what I really think is that you are the one who needs our prayers, the devil has a tight grip on your soul to be so mean and hateful. Go find someone to follow that deserves your kind of insight. In the meantime, until you’re able to open your eyes and heart we will pray for you. The Lords got Bri and her family, he has shown his grace on them more times than can be counted and he will continue.
It amazes me how many Christians are in denial of satan’s handiwork. Bad luck, misfortune, sad things call it anything else but what it is. Then you can take credit for good luck, fortune and happy things? Why do we pray in church for our farmers? That God bless their crops? Satan delights in destruction and in the separation of families- God holds marriage as a scared bond between a man and a woman. Everything created by God is satan’s target. If more people took this to heart and began to call out the enemy humankind might not be in the peril we are right now.
Ahhhh, that's so heartbreaking! When you grow beautiful food, and make a mistake that spoils it. But Bri, you did the best you could with what you knew. Thank you for sharing about your morning time with us! We do a morning time as well, but slightly differently. How long do you typically spend on morning time? Do you have a time limit you give it, or just however long it takes to get through what you want too?
Wonderful editing Bri - keeping it all real and fun with the kids such hard but rewarding work. Hope the processing of the sweet potatoes turns out well...keep us in the loop in the processing it will make for a great teaching video. I think it will be fine with a less than normal boil, mash and freeze dry for sweet potato instant potatoes for long term storage even. :) I love my freeze dryer and it saved many of my fruits and veg for me this year...from just meh to fantastic snacks & pantry food. You are so wonderful with the kids Bri - you've taught them so well! God bless your harvest.
Moles and field mice will eat sweet potatoes and other root vegetables and flowers. You didn't fail. It's just part of life. You are doing such an amazing job with your family. Just like your kids said earlier, Mommy is the best!!!
One of my favorite stories to read the kids was Stellaluna :) I would have done the same with the sweet poatoes never even thought that would happen. You have so much going on too. The new ones picked well that still is a very good amount. I have never had succsess like that ever. So to me a very good haul. Soccor was wonderful. Hugs and love
Bless your heart. I once lost a bunch from an unexpected hard freeze when I forgot they were out on the drying racks, lost all of them. We learn from experience. You do an amazing job.
We lost all of our sweet potatoes this year and we had some really large ones. The silly moles took bites out of all of them. They ate the middles out, so there was no way to salvage them. It's frustrating because they didn't eat even one full potato. They just sampled all of them. My husband has declared war on them for next year. 😅😂
So sorry Bri, youre doing so much its understandable. In the future, ready the garage, maybe stacked pallets, dark (cooler) with air circulation underneath and a fan helps. I know its.no.consolationhowever. Give yourself grace on this. 🙏🏻 On the other hand, whats most important is your miracle babies are smart cookies and oh so amazing! Thanks to your amazing parenting.
There are these really soft ponytail bands by scunci at target that don’t hurt or damage baby hair, use em on all my girls baby fine hair. Maybe for Truly?
Seems to me that you’re homeschooling journey is going quite well! I’m an early childhood educator and have been for almost 40 years when I have a mixed classroom I do learning songs in the morning ie. ABC, 5 little Ducks, Today is Monday etc and save story time for after lunch my younger kids usually fall asleep while I’m reading then I continue to read to the older ones
Bri, Sad for your sweet potatoes, but I know it will be okay. There is always next year. The chopping for dinner was a visually awesome. You and your family are treasures. Thanks for sharing your journey.
Sorry about your sweet potatoes, hard as it is, it may be best to scrap them, if they were hot enough to cook and then being moved to the garage where they will cool off can allow bacteria to grow, not worth making yourself or your children sick, imho I found this on line. Tip: You shouldn't leave cooked sweet potatoes at room temperature for more than two hours, as this can promote bacteria growth and cause foodborne illness.
Sweet potatoes do need it to be quite warm to cure properly, but perhaps the black plastic is the issue? I have always cured our sweet potatoes on cardboard, turning them every day or every other day to prevent mold. Maybe with the sides up in the greenhouse and cardboard down, it will work better in the future? Definitely a tough lesson, but the kids will have learned, too. Also, I noticed when one of the babies (I think it was Royal) pointed to the baby horse, you said that was a colt. A colt is actually an immature male horse, and a filly is an immature female horse. A foal is an immature horse, regardless of gender. I know lots of folks may not know the difference, but since I grew up with horses, I thought I would share that nugget.
Hard lesson to learn, but how you figure out how to lessen the loss will be a great teaching moment for your kids. You're doing a great job Bri, don't be too hard on yourself.
Oh no!! I'm so sorry about your potatoes! I always just bring mine in the house and throw them in a bushel basket. 😂 I may lose a few tiny ones, but most last a year like that. I don't eat for 3 weeks or so. We just never had the space to do it "right".
Wow that is wonderful, I live in Minnesota, and if you can grow that in Maine, then I should be able to grown them here ! Did you grow that in your high tunnel ? I plan to try next year in my green house .
I would invest in a shade cloth for the green house..I was afraid that would happen when I saw you guys put the sweet potatoes in there…so sorry! Blessings guys❤🙏
You’re a hard working woman Bri. I enjoy watching you work and homeschool with the kids. You’ve learned a valuable lesson with your sweet potato harvest.
So sorry the sweet potatoes got cooked in the little greenhouse. It happens. I make mistakes too and it hurts. I just lost 3 females ducks that were just about to lay and my Thanksgiving turkey by forgetting to go out and lock the door last night! Ouch. The drake survived and most of my Spring chickens. At least I didn't lose all my birds but I just kick myself that I didn't lock them in last night. Coyotes must have come and gotten them. The drake looks totally unhappy. The Spring chickens are hiding in the brush. All my baby birds in brooders are fine. I have another 8 ducks and 38 meat chicks and 9 layer chicks in my brooders so they are okay. It happens! Hang in there Bri!
So sorry, that is very sad. One year I had the thought, "That chicken coop door seems really flimsy. I had better fix that tomorrow." Well sure enough the fox got in that night and killed every single bird. Hard lesson learned.
I am glad that you teach science and history. Here where we live many home school groups took out science and history. Its very sad. Her hair will grow momma. So happy for your family. We home schooled also. Part of the time. Just make sure you give them the important stuff. Give yourself grace. You have a lot going on.
Bri, I saw this woman that had a lot of children and she cooks the eggs in a cookie pan with a high side/edge. She would spray with pam or rub the bottom with butter. Pop it in the oven and tada a tray of eggs!!!
Well thats too bad about those sweet tators, any of us could have done that. I can never grow sweet potatoes! Well anyway. On a different note . The baby horse is a foal, a colts a boy and a fillys a girl 😅. Easy mistake.
Good morning BRI , Many times I have been told by my husband to look at what you have done not what you did not get done. I understand your frustration but the lessons your family are receiving are beyond measure. This I know BRI as I can’t do what I used to do because of health and it’s hard. We are storming heaven with prayers for you all. God bless and remember energy runs out. 🙏🕊💐🍠🍠🍠🍠
Don't ever store potatoes or sweeet potatoes in a green house. They need to sit and cure so the sugars are dispersed but this should be done in a controlled environment which is done best in a cool/ dark room.... sorry for your sweet potatoes
I don’t understand how this was allowed to happen. Bri is a very seasoned gardener, and has years of experience with harvesting vegetables. This is a financial blow, especially after the loss of two freezers full of meat. It is becoming very apparent that she is unable to sustain raising children, gardening (raising vast amounts of food for consumption), processing this food, homeschooling, taking care of the house and the property, etc. by herself. This is tough to watch…..
@@probablynot1368 life is a process of highs and lows. Mistakes happen and lessons are learned. Your comment seems to be loaded will assumptions. We see a very small part of their life on here. Show a little respect.
@@probablynot1368She’s never had a greenhouse before and didn’t realize how hot it can get in there. I was surprised when I got my greenhouse. It can get up to 120F in mine in the summer with the fan on, door open and sides rolled up! Your comment does have a judgmental tone to it.
@@probablynot1368 this comment while maybe not meant to be disrespectful, it hurtful. It is probably why she turns off comments. This is tough, but nothing compared to what she’s been through. Let’s lift them up!!! She has done SO MUCH better than me at a garden and I don’t have young kids anymore. Bri.. you rock Mama
I always have some harvest go to waste. I am still learning to preserve what I grow. Its definitely the hardest part of gardening for me. Enjoying the harvest is the easiest😊. So do not be too hard on yourself. God bless!
I grew sweet potatoes this year for first time ever. I also cured mine in my greenhouse. I places mine on cattle panels so air would circulate all around. I left them out there a couple weeks and just recently moved them to my basement. I am hoping that they store well 🤞
Oh my...I'm sorry about your sweet potatoes. You know, I remember my Grandparent's putting them in the basement. I guess to keep them cool and in the dark. At least you were able to save some of them. Don't worry. You all are doing a great job. I'm new to your channel. I love watching how you all come together to help.🥰🥰🥰
Probably would be a good idea to dig up three or four plants at a time, and take the potatoes to the garage or somewhere shady and cool right away. I admire your efforts to feed your family healthy, home grown foods. I know from experience, how hard you work and how tiring it is.
We always dealt with large harvests outside then brought the end product inside. Less mess for sure. Sad loss...those were the nicest sweet potatoes I’ve ever seen. In Arkansas they are longer and thinner but very sweet
Oh, I bought that devotional for my students! (I ended up passing it on to the 3rd grade teacher as it was a bit over my 1st graders.) So sorry about your sweet potatoes! How disappointing.
You might need to make drying tables to put in the green house that is up off the ground so the air can circulate. I'm so sorry for your harvest I know it's disheartening. Hopefully you can salvage some of the harvest. God bless you and your family.
So very sorry about this. We are learning a lot from you. Now, the other side is that if you lose electricity you know it’s hot in the greenhouse for maybe keeping something warm ?or cook something simple over time.
Love your videos. Stuff in life happens- be kind to yourself. Also- for your connectors- I am a lifelong liberal who is a Christian and mother and grandmother. I have never manipulated kids or plotted against families. LOL. Prejudices towards whole bunches of “ others” just do not make sense to me. I am sure advice to limit your children’s education to the narrow and “feels safe” is well meant. I am sure all parents can make their own good judgment about their kids education. God bless you!
Bri you're doing a great job with your kids with homeschooling and all. How you take on all the housework and minding all the children is fantastic. Don 't be too hard on yourself about the harvest. Its just a learning process in your new environment, i'm sure you will know what to do better in future. Hope you'll show us what you did with the bountiful sweet potatoes; good and bad 😊 take care & God bless,you and your beautiful family❤
To cure any potato it has to be cool, dark and able to breath. Off the floor or at least on something that allows air flow. Sorry you feel you wasted all that hard work but nothing is ever wasted...now you've learned something new about your garden.
Bri.... Oh how i feel you on this one. We had a huge amazing harvest of red potatoes a few years ago. My first ever successful potato year and it was an incredible haul and i was GIDDY! We put them out in spare room in dark on tarps to cure and then the door got left open and the cat got in and assumed the "dirt" smell must have meant LITTER BOX 🥺😭😐and he peed on our potatoes thus turning that into our "year of the PISStato incident" ... ugh. and onward we trudge Jehovah Jirah still providing despite our failures. Blessings to you all 💕
It’s a shame that George III lived too early to be diagnosed with porphyria; if he were alive today and had the right medical treatment he would be a wholly different man. I feel for you so much having the sweet potatoes half cooked 🥲 I can imagine how awful that felt. I hope something good comes along to make up for it!
We have two pear trees, two peach trees, three plum trees and about 10 blueberry bushes. Everything and I mean everything was in full bloom this past spring and two strong freezes moved in. We ended up with two plums and maybe two gallons of blueberries. We live in Alabama were shocked at the freeze destruction. It is absolutely heartbreaking about those potatoes. I know you have a homesteaders heart, but as we know, farming is so difficult. I have been reading the curses of Deuteronomy 28:15-68 is still upon us because of our Israelite ancestors and our own disobedience to HIS Word. So can someone tell me how to help financially via a P,O. box. address. I do not transfer funds via internet. I want to help you Bri.
Air circulation is important. Benches in the greenhouse with wire tops and set them on there will work well for growing your seedlings on also. But was a good plan just little shade and circulation. You got this❤️😊
Sorry about your sweet potatoes. Stuff happens sometimes. Do you all eat the greens? Some people grow them just for the greens. I threw some old sweet potatoes in a 5 gallon bucket this year. I was so surprised when they grew! However, I had no idea what I was doing. Read a little about them on RU-vid before digging them up. Only got a few out of it because I didn’t plant them correctly. I’m also sure that I’m not curing them right. They are too complicated! I don’t think I will be growing them again. My family enjoys them, but I really don’t care for them anyway. I would say that your actually doing better than me lol! Truly’s hair looks cute!❤️
I meant “commenters” not “connectors” below. At 72 my fingers are too clumsy for the small buttons on my phone. Oh well- life goes on! Praise the good Lord! Let’s all be merciful to each other. 🙏❤️
Moles destroyed some of my new landscaping & trailed all over my yard! I had a pro come...he put 12 traps at the dirt hill, it was all done by ONE mole! Unbelievable! Now i know to put a trap wherever they pop out.
Bri, don´t be sad. I think, you can safe more than you think. The ones you got today out of the soil, and I think there are some more in the soil. Hope you get someone to help you. Take care!
Question- could you start a compost pile with old garden growth and the “ cooked” potatoes? I am not a gardener so I realize this question may sound like I have no idea. LOL.
Bri when I homeschooled we had a lot of fun with what we called Core classes. Each child picked a theme. And everything they did pertained to that. Ie... one son picked wolves so his math science English history everything was about wolves for 6 weeks
I’m really sorry, Bri, about the street potatoes. It’s easy to make mistakes in the garden for all of us. But you are counting on that food for your family and I just hope that you’re able to save enough to make it as best as it can for you and I hope somebody out here in RU-vid land here’s about your plight and offers to help you with your sweet potatoes that you lost by giving you some of that they had extra of. Gardening is a learning process and it is changing from here to year. One year you’ll get lots of rain in the next few don’t. One year you have excessive heat and the next year you don’t, it’s always mother nature and God who determine a lot of what happens in the garden. I’d like to look at issues on the bright side as much as I can and I think about how are you and all of your children had so much fun digging out all those potatoes together.😊♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️❣️ They were so proud of being able to dig up great big, sweet potatoes, and it became kind of a game of who found the biggest potato. It also amazes me how strong the little ones were with their hands and no pool to help dig them up, but just move the dirt around to where they could get the potato out. Then how excited they were to load them all up and lay them out. I just think while you’re disappointed that you lost them… Well, it took me getting cancer to look at things different in life. and nothing can take away that great time you and your children had together digging up the potatoes and I can tell you I’ve never seen such big sweet potatoes in my life!!!! I started writing and what I called a “ Joy journal “ a little miracles in the blessings of the day. It really help me to see things in a more positive way and not be so focused on the unpleasant. I don’t say this lightly because not only have I been dealing with cancer issues for the last 10+ years, I’ve been dealing with heart disease and some major vascular problems as a result of the chemo to the point that put me in the hospital for almost 7 1/2 months. I wouldn’t of been able to cope if I wasn’t. Able to see some type of positivity on a daily basis. You have a great laugh and smile and a kindness in your heart for your children, Bri, and I admire you so much for what you were teaching them, and that you were reading to your children and taking time with reading is so important every day. But I also admire how you say I need a little time for me, just for a cup of coffee or just 15 minutes and your children respect that. You’re teaching them wonderful things even through the unpleasant and negative issues. You didn’t say, “well, they’re bad potatoes, so I’ll just throw them all away!” Instead, you said to the children, “I think I can cut off the bad part, and we can save the rest of the sweet potato, and go ahead and Process it”. You may not realize it now or even see witness of it now but your children when they plant their crops in their homes later in life, will remember this time when their mother showed them how you could still save part of your garden that was still good, and that you didn’t have to throw away all of it. I think of the year, when our sweetcorn got hit really bad by worms. My mother and I both had asthma very badly and so my father was trying not to use any chemicals on the garden. However, the result of that decision caused the worms to get into the corn very badly and you couldn’t just throw all the corn away to the pigs instead my mother did what you did Bri, and we didn’t bring any of it into the house, but rather took a card table and another table outside, and covered it in a plastic tablecloth, and we tried to save as best as we could, at least a portion of every year. It meant we didn’t have a lot of corn on the cob meals but we still have fresh corn that we cut off the cob and then my mother cook it and frozen and some of it she canned. Please don’t be too hard on yourself Bri😊❣️ something my grandmother used to say, comes to my mind, and she would say, “you only have as much knowledge as you’ve had experience to an issue” in other words, if you’ve not been taught something or seen, something, which is how we do knowledge, then you can’t have that experience to learn from it. This year, you learn from sweet potatoes with your children. Next time you can do differently and see if that helps. I’m really proud of the size of the sweet potatoes you got, and I think that as I said, the memory of all of you working in the garden together and the little ones, even pulling out big sweet potatoes is a wonderful memory. Please don’t be hard on yourself, Bri!! you are many points ahead of most women with children and you are doing Motherhood & Single life so well❣️❣️❣️❣️❣️❣️❣️❣️❣️
