I just have to compliment you again. You are highly intelligent, highly organized, spiritual, loving, an awesome teacher, and a great multitasker. What or who was your inspiration to take on all these challenges? The garden, the canning, freezing drying, the animals, and on and on, especially with the dietary restrictions for some in your family. In the future, when you have more time, you should write a book so others could learn from your excellent techniques and skills. Your kids are so well rounded, loving, and will make excellent parents themselves, Teaching the boys to cook is genius! My son (who is now an adult and fine, wonderful husband and father) cooks too and loves to experiment in the kitchen, grilling, gardening, chickens, hunting and harvesting his own meat. He and his wife are perfectly matched, as they work and mesh their lives together, raising 4, very close in age young children. Your relationship with your husband is very compatible and your love obviously continues to grow. I had to have a hysterectomy due to ovarian cancer, and the one thing I enjoy and most gratefull for is seeing your nesting abilities with your babies. I have SO many dreams about being pregnant again and I know I should not be envious, but I sometimes cry because I am SO happy for you as I know you are living one of the best lives of any homesteader on KZfaq. You do all this for your family, not for financial gain, that is very obvious. Please think about writing a book some day as it would be very useful to teach young mothers (and fathers) based on your instincts and amazing capacity to manage a large, loving family. The Lord has blessed you and I admire you and your family so much. Thanks for sharing your lives through videos with others. 🙏✝

You are such a wonderful Mom. I love watching your kids being allowed to do their own creative process freely.

Loving your baby before the new baby...so precious.

Girl, that last scene got me! I homeschooled 9 for 32 years. One of my favorite things was having my little ones sleeping all around me, especially in fall and winter when they’ve spent mornings outside in the cool southern air. Raking leaves, bon fires, and hot cocoa. Such wonderful memories.❤

I’m in central Ohio, and we had snow yesterday. Nothing stuck, but it’s just way to early for me. I home schooled my son who is now 39, and yes it was such an enjoyable experience you are such a treasure to us. Much respect

I come from a big family of 11 children. I do miss the wonderful times as children when I see u. Sometimes, when I watch u, I pretend it's me doing all those things for my family. I only had 4 children. So I have 12 grandkids and 9 great-grandchildren. Yay

Please try to show some of your beekeeping! Thank you!

My mom just gave me her pressure canner and I’ve watched you for so long so I’m so excited to finally start canning. I could not find anyone selling reasonably priced canning equipment near me. So excited for your new baby soon! Praying for a smooth delivery and peaceful postpartum time 💜

I love your organization, I purchased the same planner that you have and it is amazing how just writing things down has helped me get things done. You are so inspiring and real, thank you for the great content!!

Your way of canning beans is fantastic! I’m going to do this instead of a huge pot. That pot of beans after soaking overnight overwhelms me to no end. Just watching this part of video already has a calming effect on me!! 🤣🤣. Thank you!!

An honest to goodness Super-Woman! Salute!

Good morning 🙏😊 Love to see your family learning the Word! And as always thank you for sharing your tips and tricks for preserving and using preserved foods. Have a Blessed day 😊

Sometimes I take a break from watching your videos because it reminds me of how inadequate I am in these tasks. We have 4 children, just turned 9 to 2. There's room for improvement in our gardening, cooking, ORGANIZING, and home economics education for sure!

Can’t handle the cuteness. The baby clothes and benji waving, all the activities with the older children, gabe and david cooking. I gotta say, you guys make really beautiful kids, inside and outside. They are the kind of people i would love to have as friends, coworkers and so on. Beautiful job on raising wonderful little humans.

I can't wait. I think it is going to be another boy! You should teach the older children how to vlog and let them fill us in for the first month.

I don't like you having daylight savings it's 10pm for me Sunday night 🤣🤣 oh well late bed time for me. Wishing you a blessed week.

Our easy cheat way lol is to blend the beans up instead of mashing them. Add oil to the pan, let it get hot and add some onion and let it fry until black. Yes black! So much flavor. Then add the beans. You might need to add in some stock of some sort being there is not much liquid in the jars. But yeah omg the best beans. I learned from my sister in law. Been making them that way for over 15 years now! If you try it let me know how you like it!!! ❤

The nightgowns with the fold over sleeves and a sack at the bottom or drawstring were my fav! Socks and mittens fall off. The built-in hand and foot protection were the BEST. cute outfits lasted about 30 minutes for pictures 😂

The most important one is the last scene. You are aware of divine presence when cuddling with your kids. Pure love, peace and endless joy, bless you!

The nightgowns were always my favorite ❤️

I’m so excited about this baby! Like another grandchild 😂🌺🙏🏼

I loved this video! All those kids reminds me of an old show with Groucho Marx. There was a guy on the show who had I think 8 kids. Groucho asked him “why do you have so many kids?” The man responded with “well, I love my wife.” Groucho then said, “well I love my cigar, but I take it out of my mouth once in a while!” 🤣🤣 I admire what you’re doing and I look forward to more videos! God bless you and your family!

I love you Jessica and your family! Putting GOD first is my life mission! I am 70 years old and you are so precious!

I love how you nurture your children's passions.

How precious was this end with you snuggling your little ones!! So excited for the new baby, you are looking great my dear!

What a super mom you are! Wonderful video. I was so sick during my pregnancies that I could hardly do anything. The last baby we moved a twin bed in the living room so I could direct the kids. May the Lord bless your family.

New to your channel. We had 7 kids, homeschooled K thru 12. All grown and some married, 16 grandkids so far. Do lots of canning: meat, produce, beans, fruit, jams and jellies. Nice pantry of goodies.

100% agree with how important the nesting time is. I recently had baby number 7 but she was born premature and I missed my time to nest properly and have felt like I have been behind the past 7 weeks she has been here and I can't catch up.

Southern Ohio here...and we woke up to snow...great video thanks for sharing with us ❤️

Your family makes life together look so sweet! You have a wonderful week!

I love the baby gowns too! Much easier in the middle of the night than pants.

Another lovely film spending time with your family. I've said it before but what a brilliant Momma you are. It's so lovely to see David baking, the girls getting involved with sorting baby things, Gabe cooking and the little ones learning and painting. Also lovely to see you resting. Thank little Benjy for his kiss x. What a special family you all are

I love how organized your cleaning list is. I need something like this, because I get so busy and the busier I am the more organization I need.

I would say the probiotic mother would work for freeze drying. Others have freeze dried their sourdough starter yeast for baking. Definitely following the progress of that one.

Good morning Jessica, been waiting for your video to post. Have a blessed day!

I live in Medina Ohio we got snow also I love it 💕💕

i loved those newborn gowns. so convenient, especially middle of the night. they're one of my favorite things to gift. what a blessing it is for your baby to have a loving family excited & eager to love & welcome them to the family. so sweet!

I am really interested in finding out how the mother from the red wine vinegar turns out! I love the concept

Can't hardly wait for baby. I'm so proud of your whole family . Blessings

Hi!!!!! Super Duper happy to see your video!! God Bless you and your family. Happy home church day Jessica!!!😁😁😁

We’ve had our freeze dryer for almost 2 years. If you powder your freeze dried eggs and mix them measuring one part eggs to one part water, you won’t be able to tell the difference from fresh eggs. Measuring truly changes the texture. Just thought I’d share.

Your littles look like they enjoying the finger painting. When I taught we would use shaving cream kids loved it.

Love your family anf your videos, i dont comment much but i am watching all of them and cliking the thumb's up ! Praise Jesus for a great Christian family ! From a grandma in Canada

Microbiologist here who used to work making kombucha in the industry... Kombucha yeasts and bacteria and vinegar yeasts and bacteria are the same kinds! Kombucha is just a shorter ferment, so not as much vinegar and slightly more sugar and alcohol. The yeasts and bacteria in it aren't probiotic, but do have some great properties to help your body! Hope you have a wonderful last few weeks of pregnancy and that your labor and delivery go smoothly and quickly!

I am a new subscriber. Thank you for the beautiful refried beans "how to." I lived in southeast OH during my teens. I still travel back for family visits. May God continue to bless you and keep your beautiful family healthy including the new addition. ❤️

Refried beans are brilliant!! I didn't know I could do that. Now I'm going to go do some!

You're a constant reminder that there is good in this world.

I look forward to Sundays as it is God’s official day - although every day is God’s day - and I get to see your videos.

Jessica, your channel has been such a delight and a blessing to me this year! I moved into my husband's Missouri home in March and we have really been enjoying so many new, exciting experiences in our first year as homesteaders. Thank you for the educational and helpful content you spend so much time creating! The thoughtfulness and care with which you live your life is a beautiful example. I feel so much gratitude all you've taught me, esp. about canning and gardening! Sending hugs and joy from the lower Midwest

The “mother” looks like beef liver😮you are amazing! Good wishes for new baby❤

So good to watch video. Miss you on instagram. ❤❤❤

Thank you for another wonderful video. I have gotten back into canning this year, and beans are on my ‘list’. I’m also working on getting more organized by creating an organizing binder that includes homeschool schedule, menu, and weekly calendar. It’s definitely a work in progress. Thanks again for sharing life with us. I always look forward to Sunday morning videos.

Can’t wait for new baby

You speak to my homeschool mommy heart ❤

Looking forward to when my new layer chics start giving me eggs, I waited to long trying to hold onto my layers but now they bearly give me any eggs, with these new girls I will start waterglassing some eggs to have eggs thru the wintertime when my girls slow down on laying. Thanks for this refry bean as I was looking at my dried beans I must get canned up, I will use this with my black beans and pinto 😊

So enjoyed watching your sweet children learn, grow, and help. Those bagels look wonderful! The girls will be a great help with the new baby. I am guessing it’s a girl. 🌸🙏🏻

Love your channel so much. I can't tell you how much it relaxes me! ❤

I guess I have found my new mentor. 🙂 I may not know homesteading. I have only two kids and I'm handling everything without a father but you sure are my new inspiration when it comes to organisation, home schooling and living life with a purpose and with traditional cooking too. I grew up in the city where life is fast and only about consumption so I have a steep learning curve. But thanks for your beautiful videos. I wish you and the baby all the best for your birth. 💞

Miss seeing y’all on ig. Thankful for KZfaq.

Wow, you're to do list! Organized. Going to aim for that list in 2023!

Dear Jessica ,thanks for the nice video and the goood advice from the making beans preverse its helpit me the make for the winter i see the snow its falling in Ohio ithink and pray for you and the baby and the children ,its make my happy many greetings from Maja in the Nederlands.

A loving mama is one of the best grifts a child can have. You are as much a blessing to your family as each of them are to you!❤

💊 Am tickled to see your science experiment with the scoby for probiotic powder. After all, pharmacy-purchased probiotic capsules are powdered something . . . and the ingredients list is sure not all organic. You GO, girl.

I loved teaching my kids how to cook.Because I now share cooking every other day for dinner with my grown kids

How nice to do your morning devotionals!!! What a lovely family you must have!! I am the mom of 9. Our oldest is 56 and our youngest is 41! ❤

We had our first snow last night here in west Michigan, just a dusting. It’s so fun seeing those tiny baby clothes 😊 I’m looking forward to seeing sourdough. And the chili looked great, good job Gabe

So many memories flooding back, when watching you snuggling with 2 sleeping boys. Oh how I miss those days, 35 years ago.

I'm from northeast Ohio. It's interesting to meet others who live around here. It's snowing here today.

I have 2 boys that are cooks by profession and they love it but the way they are taught to cook is not always how I like but they can make to order😊

Such a beautiful life y'all have created. Y'all are the strongest lady I know. May God continue to richly bless all y'all Blessings, julie

wow, i lovethat, i live alone, so it is unconvienient to fix beans ,eycept i eat them all week, this time i can make 1/2 pint jars and have homemade refried beans,,,great,thank you!

I wish you were my mom lol. And I wish I was able to have kids and have a beautiful family like yours and be an amazing homeschooling homesteading mom. I think it is so awesome and adorable since you and Becky are both due around the same time.

You are such a great mom, and a blessing to your family that you can pass on your knowledge to them and us. You are such an encouragement. Thank you for sharing.

I love the refried bean canning, sounds great! You'll love all this planning getting done before delivery. My Mom had 7 pregnancies, 5 full term deliveries and 3 surviving. She talked about how tired her muscles and bodies were on the last one. I would never had known, but I'm glad she shared and it makes sense. I had those gowns with my last baby in 1979 and I loved them as baby could easily curls up legs and easy diaper changes! I'm glad to see you resting with your little ones, a very wise move. Love your videos and family❤️

I wish I could step back in time and mother my boys a little more like you do things. I am several years older than you but still learn so much from your channel.

Love all the preparing you are doing & how you are teaching your children it's a team effort.They are so confident in what they do! There is nothing better than snuggling & taking a nap with your little ones! Those are the best naps! So happy that you will be able to relax & heal when the baby comes! You have wonderful helpers ! 🤗💖

Thank you for showing the powder prebiotic idea!! I am trying to pay off debt, since i am by myself. Then i really want to save for a feeze dryer. I talk so much about gut health, and how that played a big part in my healing journey. I learn something new every video. God Bless!!

Watching the 2 boys with their paints brought back memories for me, what fun they are having 😊

I always anxiously look forward to your videos; even more so now since you are not on IG daily-seems like part of my daily routine is missing. My Mother used to say “sometimes it’s too bad that youth is wasted on the young” I surely feel that way many many times, when I look back in my life. If there were so overs allowed, many things I would “do-over.” Homeschooling more, gardening, teaching myself to pressure can WAY earlier in life, more family focused instead of work focused… my the list goes on-I’m forever grateful that I get to see what I would have liked to do in my life; through you and your family’s life. Thank you so very much. God Bless.

Thank you for the kisses benj ❤ your organisation skills and energy to accomplish and follow through always amazes me. Wondering if your canning and food knowledge is passed onto the children, apart from David who loves baking. Do you include it in there schooling.

Как я вас понимаю! Ваша семья классная! Старшие дети помогают. Все так чисто, уютно.

Love your channel. Could you make a video on creating sourdough starter, method of keeping it going and some recipes? Thank you! Congratulations on the baby. Can’t wait to see itty bitty too.

Those gowns are my favorite too! ❤

Awww! Benji is such a big boy now! It must be bittersweet!

You're raising some awesome young people! God bless!

Oh Jessica! Your children are wonderful little/big blessings! I love watching them! Thanks for the refried bean canning tip! I’m going to put up some in pint jars. May God Bless you and your family! 💕🙏❤️

I just came across this video. I dont have equipment to can foods. However, I feel like I should take your recipe and make some. I love the idea of bacon flavour.

I think you may need a bit more water it’s 2tbs water per egg so that’s 24 tbs 1-1/2cups water. Love your videos coming back to this one today because I’m going to can beans today - THANKS!! 🤗

Watching your video today, I can enjoy the feeling of peace that the beginning of winter always brings to me. I live in central Ohio and was thrilled to see a few snow flurries Friday afternoon. The snow didn't stick around but it was beautiful to see while it lasted. I'm wishing you a healthy and happy birth, and joy to your family this season.

Enjoy the winter season beautiful family. Thank you for sharing your life with us. God bless you all.

You are truly in your comfort zone with your family and it shows in the joy your children share

So glad you mentioned your sour dough starter. I have a starter and I always wonder how long I can let it seton fridge without doing anything to it. Thank you!! You are a rock star in my eyes. ❤

Prayers for a healthy baby and mom and a quick birth!

Hod gave you to them 🙏🏼you are amazing !

Thank you for sharing your lovely family with us 💛

I know it’s challenging to do on video but if you put your trays straight into the freezer (or the freeze dryer) and pour the liquid in while it sits there (slightly pull it out), it will greatly eliminate the chances of spillage on the way to the freezer or freeze dryer. May not completely eliminate the chances of spilling, but the transport is the hardest part - so eliminate the difficulty by keeping it in a spill proof container until you pour it in the tray in the freezer or freeze dryer.

I canned grape juice this fall using your recipe- I'll admit I was sceptical but it is the best, easiest recipe I have ever used! So easy and so good! Thanks from Montana 😊

We love cooking pinto beans then freeze drying for Refried Beans. So convenient.

I miss those painty days 💗

The refried beans can be used to thicken chili as well :)