If you hang around here long enough you’ll notice that my posts tend to vacillate between the joy we have in living this simple off-grid life and the struggles that accompany it. I often worry that it comes across as complaining. I hope it doesn’t. I hope it comes across as we’re-just-trying-to-figure-this-stuff-out. Take, for instance,…
I know that there will come a day, Lord willing, when my children will look back on their childhood and remember. They will remember big things like how mama’s attitude could make or break the atmosphere of the home – was she cheerful… or not. They will remember the ideas and ways of life that…
When we first arrived on our land we had three very basic needs that needed to be dealt with immediately: Water Waste management Cooking I remember those early days of our new homesteading adventure. It was October, the days were warm and the nights cool. Everything was so new and I think we were all…
I am kind of a book junkie. I used to literally have 1-2 foot high stacks of library books scattered all over our home. Since we moved off-grid I haven’t made getting to the library a priority, and frankly, I just don’t know that I have the time. But when Julie at Cultures for Health…
