I might have to abandon Preparedness Mondays and talk about being prepared more often. Self-sufficiency and preparedness have always been passions of mine and now has become a mindset for me. I love to share with you all what I have learned as well as my mistakes. I wanted to introduce you to a resource that will lay out food storage and planning for preparedness for you. This guide will take you step by step for what you need to…
We have been dehydrating our garden produce as well as what I bought from the Farmers Market lately. I love having dehydrated vegetables in my pantry. I have been doing a lot of onions with plans to do more as well as basil and all kinds of peppers. This was my progress so far: Hard to believe the middle jar was 4.5 onions at one time! Left jar is dried peppers and the right jar is dried basil. The first…
Great article! I am blessed to have the great support to help me, but other single parents are not so blessed. This article shows some great ways that you can come along side and support single parents without being intrusive and counterproductive. Thanks! Far Above Rubies: Single Moms Speak: My sister is a single mom with twins whose husband abandoned them when the boys were toddlers. I remember walking into my sister’s small apa…
My new computer will be here today! Hooray! Hooray! I want to get back to regularly posting on this blog during the week and I miss doing so! I would have had it yesterday, but the Fed Ex guy needed a signature and no one was home. Go figure! Hopefully I will have everything set up tonight and will be ready to go. I have so much I want to share with you all and I feel better about doing…
We are back in school again! I usually have mixed feelings about the kids going back to school, but despite my feelings, we have to get into a routine! This helps simplify our lives so much. To help our mornings, we like to have our things together the night before. These are things we do to simplify our mornings: bookbags are packed and ready to go clothes are laid out for the next morning shoes are found, accessible, and ready…
Our August in pictures – we had a lot going on and not nearly enough pictures taken! Family Reunion in Storm Lake at the end of July Paige’s early birthday present! She was ecstatic! Vacation Bible School Program! First Day of School! Storm that came through and did a lot of damage! Others had it worse though. We were so lucky! Dane’s Birthday Party with his classmates! Dane with his birthday cake that Grandma Anne made! Thanks for reading! Have…