Family Life

How does Jaimie start her day? Laundry, Homeschool, Cooking, Food Preservation, Cleaning. How do you do it all and still keep your sanity? Find what works for you and do that. Modern homesteading does not need to be super hard and stressful. Life is always going to involve a certain …

Recently, somebody in our family very dear to us was diagnosed with cancer. I’m not sharing who that person is just yet because they haven’t made that public. That word, cancer, has devastating emotions usually accompanied with it. One of the reasons we chose to live off grid was to …

I think the best part of the festival is meeting all of you who come and share with us your stories and testimonies. I wish we could remember all of your names because each one of you are special to us and we thank you for being a part of …

One evening early last summer, I walked outside to check on my boys.  They were in the garden helping their dad weed, as well as plant the last of our tomato seedlings.  Knowing what I know about my husband’s method of gardening, I knew that weeding would only be a …

It was “Kid’s Night” at the fair last summer.  Joshua, my oldest, had written the date on the calendar after reading about it in the newspaper two weeks earlier.  He was looking forward to it so much!  Me?  Not nearly so much.  I had already had a very full day. …

“Choose a job you love and you will never have to work a day in your life.” – Confucius I’m a self-proclaimed homebody.  I used to feel the need to apologize for it because I have felt judged at times for not having the desire to get out more.  But …

Summer was not always the lazy, vacation-filled season that we now see it as.  When we think of summer today, we think of long hot days of laying by the pool with the kids while they splash away their summer break.  The family road trips to expensive amusement parks or …