sustainable living, homesteading, sustainable homemaking
Most modern-day homesteaders have one foot on the farm….and the other foot still in the working world. To keep the sustainable lifestyle going, many folks need to keep their “day jobs” in order to finance it, at least for now. Being pulled between two worlds can be stressful, defeating and expensive. Routinely simplifying all parts [...]
Ever have trouble sticking with things? Are you the Queen of the unfinished? Do you jump from project to project, never feeling satisfied about the outcome? I’ve been there, I think all of us have. I wish everything in life were as easy as a Mousetrap game. From the unfinished sewing project, to the [...]
Do you ever get really down and discouraged with your homesteading progress? Photo credit Sometimes, despite our best-laid plans, we don’t meet our goals. Drives me nuts! You might have noticed that I am goal-oriented, always have been. I get depressed if I don’t have a goal I’m working towards, even if the goal is [...]
“Serving humanity is one of the greatest gifts you can give yourself.” ~Kelly Morris 2009 Ethiopia ~ Colin, Trevor and I with Bereket, Epherem and Rahel Service to others is an important part of family life for the Morristribe. However, this wasn’t always the case. While I grew up understanding the meaning of hard [...]
Learning new skills…. This isn’t something that you have to convince a homesteader to do. We’re all about it. As a matter of fact, we can seriously over-do it and over-commit. There’s a pace to learning new skills, rather, an “art of learning“, if you will. True learning takes thought and time, it is [...]
Despite your best efforts, do you ever feel just overwhelmed? Most people that I talk to seem to be at one end of the spectrum or the other…either they are completely over-committed and disorganized OR they are borderline OCD in their goals, planning and expectations of others. As someone who has recovered from OCD, I [...]
“When Mama ain’t happy, ain’t nobody happy” One very old but very true saying. As wives and mothers, we bear a great deal of the burden to regulate the mood, i.e. the temperature of our homes. I don’t always want that responsibility, yet it’s mine. Mothers represent love and nurturing in the family. In many [...]
Internet server has been having problems but has crews working on it. In a brief “up” moment, I was able to post this….please be patient if we continue to have problems. I will be updating on Facebook from my Android. Staying focused on the big rocks in my life is a constant struggle. Priorities in [...]
As much as I enjoy the quiet and beauty of the winter months, I struggle terribly during the first few months of the year to stay motivated. Anyone relate? The energy that being outside much of the year gives me is deflated indoors. I tend to over-eat food, under-clean my house and generally lack my [...]
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