I’ve spent my summer caring for sick kids and planning for the upcoming school year. It wasn’t the summer I had hoped for, but we had to take everything in stride. We typically resume formal lessons after Labor Day, so I have about a week of summer left even though their public school peers go …
My overall goal is to be more self-reliant in 2019 than we were in 2018. Self-Reliance means we will be able to do more for ourselves and save money in the process. The time between Christmas and New Year’s is a wonderful time to reflect and set goals for the coming year. I am taking …
Setting goals for the new year is always a wonderful way to reflect after the holidays and set yourself up for success in the new year. I started Happily Homegrown to share our homemaking, homeschooling, and homesteading journey. Over the last few years, things went off track. There were seasons where it felt like nothing …
UPDATE: A year ago today, I wrote this post as I was looking forward to the last year in my 30s. It was a great year, with a lot of ups and downs. There are still a few things on my list that I didn’t get to do over the last year, but that’s ok. …
Homesteading Goals for 2017 Homesteading is a lifestyle of self-sufficiency. For our family, it’s a way of life on our little 1/4-acre in the middle of suburbia. While there is still a lot we rely on others for, there is a lot we can do for ourselves. Through gardening, food preservation, and a lot of …
