Do you ever feel like you were born the wrong year?

[Dixiedoodle]

I have always said I was born way too late. I can remember someone asking me 'what I wanted to be when I grew up' at the age of 10--(all I wanted was to be a mom, stay at home with my kids, cook, clean, garden- preserve it and raise animals) and being told "You should be a nurse or a sec."...

I do have a degree but don't use it. My dh loves having me at home --I was able to stay with the kids until they started school and now am a stay at home wife who babysits her grands so they don't have to go to a daycare...

 

[morelcabin]

When I was a girl most of my fantasies were about being a young tribal indian girl...strange but I always thought I was born in the wrong family and the wrong time

 

[FutureChickenMan]

Heck yeah, shouldda been born in the 50's.

 

[fowltemptress]

I figure this time is a pretty good one to be in, but what I wouldn't give to visit those other times! To do chores alongside Laura Ingalls, to visit the pristine west with Mark Twain, to read a paper with letters in it written by Silence Dogood; I love thinking about such things. I wonder how long before people start looking back on this time with longing? I'm sure in my old age I'll be mumbling about young folks screwing up the world and how back in my day things were so much better, but I'm sure it won't be true. Every age has its good and bad. I love the fact that I have the ability to choose whether or not I will garden, can, cook from scratch, do needlework, or even have children. Back then all of that was a necessity, and anytime that's the case the charm tends to be lost. When I can get my grandparents to stop and think about their lives back when they were young, they tend to go back on their statements and admit that they would have given anything to be able to not do the things they had to do back then, that they now do for fun. Life is weird that way.
Speaking of visiting the past, has anyone visited colonial Williamsburg? Is it a good place to visit? I'd much rather go there than a horrid place like Disney World, but if it's too, oh, I don't know, commercialized or something I'd like to know so that I can arrange to go backpacking through Big Bend instead. Their website makes it look absolutely charming, and that's exactly the time period I would most want to visit.

 

[AussieSharon]

From a very young age I've always felt like I was born in the wrong century and still do!
I feel like I should be living about 200+ years ago, even as far back as Medieval times. ( called me wacked )

One day I'll get around to doing past life regression and see if I can find any answers.

 

[aladatrot]

I feel like I should have been born 100 years ago (except for my show horses who would not have been here then). I have the show horses (Arabians and Half Arabians), two ranch geldings for gathering cattle and hunting wild boar, a herd of fainting goats just for gigglies, the chickens for eggs, some chickens for meat, cattle for beef, a garden full of veggies, and a pet hog for eating the kitchen and garden scraps.

We do contract wild hog removal, so our freezer has plenty of hormone free pork in it. Excess pork is donated to Hunters Harvest to feed the people at the missions. We deer hunt in the fall, and have no need to buy meat from the grocery store other than sea food. Actually, we are about to stock our pond with Channel Catfish - so then we will really be self sufficient!

M

PS my pet hog was wild caught and is not pen kept. She pretty much has the run of the place and is not going to be eaten.

 

[WriterofWords]

I'm often told my son is not of this time. He's 16, he's polite, he holds open doors, carries things, pushes buggies, helps in anyway he can, he's never hit is terrible two's or his teen terror years. He's caring, commited, worries about people and animals, dresses conservately, gives panhandlers food but not money, offers to clean yards for older people around us for free. He watches his language, apologizes for those who don't, and won't tolerate showing a lack of respect for anyone around him. It makes him an easy target for some of the nasty ones we live around, but I'm proud of him.

 

[EweSheep]

Mrs AK, yes I would imagine that it would be nice living back in those simplier times in Scotland however I would not tolerate sleeping or wearing wool, smelly and sweaty bodies.

I dont think not in the Jacobite rebellion or times of England and Scottish wars in 1700's would suit me. Landscape and castle must be the thing to see when you go to Scotland. Hubby has been to Scotland and he loved it!

If you ever watched Mrs Brown, the movie........that I would not mind at all!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I can just be a queen that has a kilted guy as my bodyguard or companion (let's leave it up to your imagination!) and have everything at my beckon and call. But I am certain it gets old real fast.......

 

[Red Tie]

My husband and I are Civil War Cavalry re-enactors. It is awesome to be able to live the time period for even a short time as a weekend or so. Life was very different back then.

I grew up raising dairy goats and horses. The meat is wonderful. We often had a "roast" and told people it was all beef. Actually, they never were able to tell the difference between the beef and the goat. We used six month old wethers, milk fed. I would milk the does and bottle feed the kids. I loved them. Fun to have around, playful and clean. Please remember though, goats are not grazers. They are browsers like deer. They don't just stand around eating pasture. They eat bark off of trees, shrubs, weeds and most anything you don't want growing there anymore!

They can climb some types of fences and can be known to chew the tails of willing horses (especially your show horse with the lovely long flowing tail.....)

Mine did pull carts. We hauled firewood in the winter on a little sled. You can use a horse halter for a harness. Head through the nose, front legs through the check pieces, buckel the crown piece around the middle!

I miss my goats. I don't remember why I don't have any right now....hmmmm.

 

[ChickenToes]

Ugh...my mom calls me an earth mother.

I think my husband and I should have been born around 1860. That way, we'd have met around the turn of the century.

Very few people understand why I make soap and detergent and keep a sourdough starter and grow a garden and raise chickens and use as little electricity as possible and cook everything from scratch. And I'm only 20...95% of people my age are the polar opposite of me.

They'll learn! There's a method to my madness!