Ahhh…winter. Love it or hate it, winter happens every year. Some of you have much milder winters than we do in Iowa and can still garden year-round. That is not happening here! I can barely see where my garden should be at!I don’t know about you all, but I lose hope Spring is coming when Winter is here. Winter is just so cold and so harsh. We have had it easy this winter until January came. January brought some really…
Since my goals for 2015 pretty much didn’t get accomplished, I figured I needed a new game plan.What is that game plan?1. Break them down into more manageable and easier to accomplish tasks.2. Print them out. Maybe make the print out fancy or more eye catching.3. Hang my goals in several places in my home. To be fair, my focus shifted last year especially in the last three months. The biggest change to my focus is that Rob and I are…
You all read these posts, shared these posts, and shown this blog some love! Thank you so much! I couldn’t do this without you all and I wouldn’t want to! These posts were the most popular posts in 2015! Counting down from 10 to 1 in popularity, here they are: 10. 9. 8. 7. 6. 5. 4. 3. 2. 1. Thank you again and have a great 2016! Erica
Have I always been a prepper homesteader?No.I have been a prepper homesteader for at least the last ten years and maybe longer. I have been wanting to be a homesteader for a lot longer than that. I would read and re-read the Little House on the Prairie books as a kid (and as an adult). I have always loved reading about early Iowa settlers and what they had to do to survive and thrive. I find their stories absolutely fascinating. As…
One of the ways we have tried to be more self-sufficient to live a more self-sustainable life. We try to produce our own food, raise chickens, recycle, reuse what we can, and generally live life without being consumer-driven. It is not an easy life to live all the time, but the pay off is great!One of the things I hate is how much trash we throw away. I know we throw away less trash than most households, but all the…
I am often asked how I get things done. I know I am a single mother with busy kids so that means I have to get things done. Of course, I enlist my kids into helping because, most of the time, it is their mess. At the end of the day, though, most of the work falls on me to keep the house running smoothly and to get things done.I often don’t feel like doing anything. Morning is my best…