Creating New Nostalgia For Our Family (+ Homemade Cream of Wheat)

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[@theelliotthomestead]

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[@elizabethmeekshornback758]

I love sitting quietly to the side while you & Stuart chat about common & profound subjects.

[@michellebrady3621]

Me too. It's my favorite part is when Shaye and Stuart start talking. Love it.

[@Thisisit120]

This video got me to thinking and remembering thank you. I remember when I was a young girl in grade school and I would go to my aunt and uncles house out in the country and spend the night with them or the weekend I absolutely loved it. My family and I lived in town, and my aunt and uncle lived in the country. I would beg to do the chores their kids loved it when I came to stay because they got a break I did it all the chickens the cows the pigs. And I loved it and I remember the Lord telling me one day I would have a farm. I was probably seven or eight when he told me that. And I didn’t get that farm until I was 62. But a farm I have. With milk cows and a horse and dogs and cats and chickens, and a garden. And a bedroom upstairs, and a barn, and a creek. And I love it all. Life is good.❤️

[@deannajudd8434]

I felt this one deep to my core ❤ You two have such a way with words in describing and looking at ordinary things in such a meaningful way. I grew up in the suburbs. My husband and I aspire to live a more back to the basics and traditional life style- we hope to one day have a homestead of our own. But this way of living has been something I’ve felt drawn and loved for as long as I can remember. Watching you guys feel the nostalgia and talk about these things, brought that home for me too. It’s like I’m there feeling all the things with you.

[@amelia2656]

Cream of wheat wasn’t a breakfast in uk, but rough oatmeal cooked into porridge with water and salt, then topped with a spoonful of cream from the top of the milk. That was my childhood breakfast.

[@sarahp3676]

I found this video to be one of the most special that you've made yet. I felt every bit of it so deeply. I love listening to the two of you talk together...I learn a lot, feel a lot and am inspired in so many ways when I watch you both. I wish you many blessings this new year.

[@workinprogress3609]

My mom used to put cocoa in our cream of wheat. Finding a lump was like finding a prize. We used to roll it in sugar and it tasted like chewy sweetness.

[@lynsmith2698]

There is something about your channel that is nostalgic…..you know. The lighting, the views , the warmth and glow of the kitchen and the soothing voices. Thank you. 🇨🇦🌷

[@johnnacrist8715]

I’m turning turning 60 this Wednesday. Seeing your baby lambs takes me back to 1973. My two sisters & I showed Hampshire sheep in 4-H. I won grand champion market lamb our first year. My sister won in the ewe class. We bought 3 lambs that year. From there we built up our own sheep. The memories of feeding, cleaning the barn. Having lambs in the spring. Helping my dad bail hay. It was a blessing. Blessings are from the Lord Jesus!☺️

[@dianasweetpea2561]

Yes Yes Yes! You nailed it! To hear a mom talk about making memories with her children is becoming a thing of the past. I can only share this video with so few that would actually get it... thank you so much!

[@JustBeingNiceGR]

Thank you for this beautiful video! Thinking about what our children will remember makes me all teary eyed. It's important to keep it in perspective when the days are difficult

[@sandyrees490]

I love the videos where we get out on the homestead with you and back into the house to cook something delicious. This is what I originally fell in love with your channel for

[@Mrs_Creekside]

Ah yes… they will remember… and along with the memories will be feelings of a warm, loving farm childhood!!!

[@maryjemisonMaryjay1936]

The Smell of Mobile Alabama Gulf Coast USA 🇺🇸 where I was born and raised ❤❤❤❤❤❤

[@asthepaintflows]

I love your family and how you live! Every time my husband and I drive from the Seattle area, where we live, to Monroe, then over the pass and through Leavenworth, heading towards Wenatchee, I instantly think of your family and how you used to say that you lived in the shadow of the Cross - I'm not sure if that cross is there anymore, but I always look for it, and imagine your little cottage tucked away in the mountainside with all your gardens and farm animals... You have become nostalgic for me and I wanted to say Thank you, and I pray many blessings for a wonderful New Year 2024 for you! xoxoxoxox

[@genietillery878]

Cream of wheat is so warming on a cold winter morning. I couldn't wait for life to get back to normal after the holidays.

[@joanneganon7157]

Adorable baby Lamb❣️. Growing up we ate Cream of wheatout of a box with milk and sugar 😋. Wood smoke smells when taking an evening walk beings be back home to our little fishing village ❤. We were not fortunate like you to have it fresh ground, but we enjoyed it on a cold winters day. When my mum visited me here in VT. I would take her for a ride through the Country. She would have fond memories from the smells that brought her back to her childhood farming with here Dad🤗. JO JO

[@n.watson8497]

Soaking up God's blessings....

[@oaquino829]

My mom made me cream of wheat with peaches in syrup as a topping.

[@wilmawagler5058]

I can still see my mom cooking wheat by her cook stove for breakfast. It wasn’t cream of wheat from a box. She also made oatmeal and corn mush. It’s good to remember those things every day we are doing things that will evoke nostalgia down the road.

[@sandrabrown6326]

My nostalgia of my youth on the farm are so many. Picking blackberries, playing on haystacks, running through the path between the cotton fields to the neighbors. Watching my aunt and great grandmother work in the garden. Taking my turn sitting on the ice cream maker. Love your videos.

[@roksannastephens4375]

Your family is blessed with your lifestyle, your farm. The hard dedicated work proves just beautiful! Most of us are unable to aquire it. I love cream of wheat, but quit eating it because of the ingredients, so, thank you for this recipe. You are totally spot on with the earth. The smell, the grounding, the healing of it, our total connection to it, thank you Lord for it.

[@lyndspickett5770]

This episode just warmed my heart… Thank you!

[@carolyncarlon9870]

Soooo funny! I used to gag when eating a bowl of cream of wheat as a kid 60+ years ago. My mother used the boxed stuff…her rendition always had lumps in it. I never fed to my kids! Maybe einkorn is the better way!

[@girlmeetshomestead]

I love these types of videos. They always inspire me.

[@purseypurslane]

Please grind and SELL that wheat that's so healthy - I so miss cream of wheat and actually have trouble finding it in the stores these days -- and I ate my cream of wheat with apple butter or strawberry preserves, so yum!

[@jadeinthewoods]

My sisters and I ate Cream of wheat often when we were kids in the late 80’s - 90’s. My mother made it with butter, milk and sugar. Sometimes with honey if we had it. It was one of my favorite breakfasts.❤️ Also, it did come from a box and yes, there was a guy on the front in a chef’s hat that has since been removed. For the same reason that uncle Ben was removed from his rice.

[@ja-uh9gz]

It's a nice quiet, cozy time of year. Building a fire and making homemade cream of wheat....looks so delicious. I used the packets when growing up, with some honey. The little lambs are so sweet....as the rest of your animals.❤

[@meh5069]

Your kitchen evokes genuine emotion in me. It’s such a cozy loving place, and I pray that it continues to nourish your family for many many years to come❤. My grandmother used to make us the BEST cream of wheat. With butter, sugar, a pinch of salt, and milk. I think I may have some tomorrow morning. Thank you for invoking nostalgia!

[@DH-qz2so]

It is amazing how taste and smell brings back memories... when I eat raw sunflower seeds, I remember my mom's homemade Granola... when I am in the Dollar Store and smell that sickly sweet plastic smell, I am reminded of those Liddle Kiddles in the plastic colored eggs that we played with back in the 70's. Aaaggh! Farm boots in the house, in the kitchen...after walking through who know what in the farm! Lol!

[@zannaB60]

Awwww, I just love baby lambs! They are so precious! Thank you for introducing your new arrival. Adorable!

[@rejenlifestyle4485]

WOW!! 😍 I just had to replay the end to hear it again! What a blessing!! You are all so amazing….Meg you’re a superstar! Thank you for sharing your wonderful life with us all. Congratulations on the new addition. Couldn’t be happier for you! 🙏❤️

[@user-jz1zq6rt2r]

What a lovely video. Thank you! As I sit quietly, in my kitchen on this chilly wet morning with a hot cup of tea, planning my day which involves tasks for a nearing lambing season, I decided to check in your videos. How appropriate and beautiful. This video has me contemplative and grateful. Also, I am now smelling everything I touch and crying. Thanks!😅

[@cynthiawhitcomb1780]

Much to be thankful for

[@JamieClements1982]

Georgia hasn’t been disappointing us this year as far as winter. Our winter plants in the yard aren’t growing. Those in the greenhouse are doing well. That’s not typical. We are celebrating because we actually got to experience four seasons this past year. 😂 I love to make polenta. Do you cook that and if so how?

[@forestbirdgirl]

Thank you for sharing your love and joy for your family and home… this is how we live our day to day lives and I’m grateful that there is always something beautiful here to experience and appreciate with you and yours as well… Happy New Year!!!💝🕊️⭐️🌲🌳🪵🏡☕️🥧🐈🐑🪴

[@user-gr8qw3zd1l]

Shaye, thanks for the memories. You took me back to growing up on my family farm in West Salem. The baby lambs, the morning fog on the pasture, the cream of wheat. Your kids are so lucky to grow up this way. God bless you and your family. Happy New Year!

[@angeladyson7367]

You too are so lovely to listen to and watch while I prepare lunch. I love the chats you have about these things you share in common. I hope you're both well? You both work so hard. Keep the strength up and the Lord strengthen you both. P.s I love the smell of manure 😂 it is a nostalgic smell and makes me know I'm in the countryside.

[@user-fn6xs3xz9r]

Felt this deeply. Loved every minute. Fondly thinking of my own nostalgic memories. Happy New Year!

[@taylormesa6166]

Your videos are always so calming for me. Thank you for sharing these wonderful conversations. Also I LOVE the yellow on the interior of the door and trim. It’s such a bright refreshing change.

[@christinemurphy7204]

Sweet! Love to see you and your family. Happy new year❤

[@amandabrooke318]

The videos with the two of you are hands down my favorites, and this one was no exception ❤

[@rachelschindler1841]

We grew up on cream of wheat. Of course, it was the store bought kind, but none the less, it was delicious. Thanks for the memory.

[@megs1966]

Absolutely loved this episode ❤

[@mommared6713]

Diesel and cow manure…. Not weird at all ! Those are two of my favorite smells too! It smells ‘clean and homely’ to me in a weird way. Soil does that for me. And sourdough starter rising in its jar. Or the smell of smoke and sweat in work clothes even after they’ve been washed.

[@shirleykullander9791]

Beautiful! Loved every minute.

[@SarahsOctoberHome]

I Love cream of wheat!👌🏻🤎

[@freedomjam3670]

Precious 😢❤

[@bigbarnlittlehouse7013]

This was a sweet format!

[@An-mei]

I ordered a grinder and will be ordering einkorn berries next. Thank you 🌹

[@jessicab7220]

Love seeing life on the farm! What is the flour mill ? Looking to buy one in the near future.

[@bogdankarashchuk1595]

We make cream of wheat with milk and sugar, alittle salt and butter

[@maryjemisonMaryjay1936]

No Sugar in my cream of wheat 🌾

[@cynthiafisher9907]

Brown sugar in mine! ❤

[@In_time]

I was 19 before I realized it wasn’t called “cream of _weep”_ 🙈😭 lol (also, it looks like you painted your hobbit door.. it looks lovely but I will miss the shabby look😌❤)

[@andreaacarbonell4185]

Great video, thank you. I enjoy your content, it’s well thought out and not like others. Happy 2024….. the new lamb are sweet looking :)

[@johnnacrist8715]

Cream of wheat ❣️

[@amyharris7337]

I've never eaten cream of wheat in my life, but I want to now!

[@samthomas2013]

how sweet the Lamb

[@happybeehoney3461]

Which KoMo grain mill do you have? Been looking for some time and can't decide on one.

[@cynthiafisher9907]

I just ordered the Mio. It has a heavier motor, but wasn’t as expensive as the other one that had the bigger motor.

[@honesttraitorbear3527]

Will you be retiring the cow on the farm or selling her since the new focus is milking sheep?

[@Kiwichick138]

Cream of what, never heard of that. Is that a normal breakfast for Americans? Is it similar to porridge? which is what I remember from growing up, my Dad what's made it for us, it was his thing.

[@ilzitek2419]

❤❤❤

[@kathylane5934]

I remember smells like that. Love smell an old barn. You can almost see everything thats been in there. Hay. Tobacco cows horses leather from saddles harness

[@karenthesheepgirl1909]

Yep. That's a good one.

[@TRUFIVE50]

Where do find einkorn berries in bulk?

[@jaynemar1]

Cream of Wheat came in a white box.

[@cd2659]

What will become of CC? Does she go to the butcher or do you give her away?

[@cynthiafisher9907]

Wait, I’m confused. Gluten is protein, so how can einkorn have more protein? Great thought about building a memory bank for our children. Mine are grown, i wonder what their memory bank holds? I hope it is nice smells and sounds and tastes.

[@leslietufts3338]

Yes, homemade cream of wheat, no comparison.

[@patriciacinea3097]

Try using cornmeal and make porridge. A pastor once told me that farmers are the closest to God.

[@cwcobo]

Ummmmh, coffee. Me wants some coffee.

[@karenthesheepgirl1909]

Where is Rex?

[@johncconnolly1]

It is not weird at all to get nostalgic smelling cow or horse manure. Dog poop, not so much. Music has a strong nostalgic pull for me. Songs themselves remind me of people or instances in my life, not the lyrics themselves.