sustainable living, homesteading, sustainable homemaking
Lifestyle changes take time. Change. Humans don’t like change. If not handled correctly, change can be very painful and regretfully unproductive. Yet, when change is gently implemented into our lives, true fulfillment and joy can be found. Such is the case with homesteading. Too much change at one time can be a recipe for disaster. [...]
“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 [...]
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What are essential oils and how can they be useful to you around the farm? “Essential oils” are highly concentrated oil extracts from certain species of flowers, grasses, fruits, leaves, roots and trees. They have been used for thousands of years for a number of purposes. Further, they are readily available at the health food [...]
As you’ve heard me talk about recently, our oldest daughter, Hailey, is getting married this weekend to the love of her life. We are all very excited…and busy! In the name of “margin” for last minute wedding details, I asked my good blogger friend, Amy Walker of “Homestead Revival“ if she could help me out [...]
It’s amazing how a simple thing like a friend’s visit can turn into something so special! Photo credit Being summertime, the Morris children are all getting caught up on “friend visits”. Either friends are over here, my kids are at a friend’s house, kids join us to the pool or even to a ballgame. Now [...]
If my family’s survival depended upon my perfect homesteading skills, we would surely perish. Admiration is the only word that describes how I feel about women who lived prior to the 20th century. Regret is the only word that I can think of to describe how a man might have felt if they married a [...]
As I ran errands this morning, I heard someone on Christian radio talking about “control“. Being a “recovering control freak” myself, among other things, my ears perked up. We try to control those around us because we think we know how everything should be. Then when everyone in our world doesn’t measure up and/or perform [...]
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