Hello,
Fancy meeting you here! This is a place for me to chronicle my 6 month super plunge into a more home steady, pioneer-ey life. I have spent years implementing elements of those wonderful, simple- yet- hard, things in my life. But this new season I hope to give it a huge boost and dive deeper into this wonderful simpler life! Here are my main goals:
~To dramatically cut back shopping (it is how I spend a lot of time!)
~To live off 1/3rd of our current spendable income (note: we are a one income home, with 4 medium aged kids, and we pay for each child's education. They are not currently public schooled. So this will be a challenge)
~To wean from commercial things to homespun things in many areas
~To learn new skills and habits that bring simplicity, joy, and calmness to our lives
~To teach our children to have an appreciation for a variety of things in our often rushed, toss away society.
~To do something for someone else every single day.
~To get my body more inline with pioneer shape verses couch potato shape!
And in true pioneer form, many ladies had to do it while their husbands were gone for months..whether it be for trapping, hunting, or other things...and so I will follow in that. We are embarking on another military deployment, so I get to hold down the fort for the better portion of this year!
I AM:
35...I feel like I am still in the place I was when I was 25! Do we ever feel grown up?!?!
A Wife of 16 years to my best friend!
A mother to 4 kiddos that helped complete my life and give me purpose!
A Jesus Follower...I fail so often to be like Him, but He loves me still and for that I am beyond thankful.
