I often ask myself what my days would look like if I didn’t have to worry about the State’s requirements for educating my children. What would I spend my time teaching them if I had zero pressure from outside of the home influencing the content of my lesson plans? I probably wouldn’t interrupt them from […]
He cries in the dark for the third time since I attempted to fall asleep. My exhausted body sits up to settle him back down as I think, “I am never doing this again.” But as the sun rises on another day and my eyes focus to see that sweet face smiling back at me, […]
Our family went fluoride-free when we started to learn about the potential dangers of ingesting it and the role it could have been playing in the flares of my Crohn’s Disease. We bought a reverse osmosis filtration system for our drinking water to eliminate all fluoride and began trying out different brands of fluoride-free toothpaste. […]
I’ve been thinking recently about what draws people to this homesteading life. We see it now on reality TV and across social media. People are entertained by watching others live out this lifestyle, but what modern homesteaders are doing isn’t really remarkable at all. The homesteading life involves skills and experiences that many people around […]