Homesteading

Preparedness and Homesteading Resources

In today's world, with information at our fingertips and a twenty-four-hour news cycle, we can learn almost anything on a whim. But what if we...

Summer Homeschooling and Leveling Up

Homesteading

As part of our year-round homeschool routine, we do summer homeschooling. I've found this works best for our schedule and allows us to take time off...

Homeschool Lesson Plans — Changes in the New Year

Homesteading

I love the new year! Among other reasons, I look at it as an opportunity to review our homeschool lesson plans. I take a look at what works and what...

Learning to be Flexible and Embracing Change

Camping, Road Trip

So back in January I received an email that plans were being made for my 30th Class Reunion. After the shock that I was old enough to have been out...

Creating Margin – Personal Growth

A Calm Sanctuary

This week we're continuing our Creating Margin series by talking about Personal Growth and Development. I don't know when I first started focusing...

Creating Margin – Finances

A Calm Sanctuary, Around the Homestead

One of the most stressful parts of our lives is dealing with finances. Many people grow up without solid financial role models in the home, and...

A few of my favorite things ~ May 2018

A Calm Sanctuary

The Art of Frugal Hedonism: A Guide to Spending Less While Enjoying Everything More When I first started reading this, we'd just gotten our patio...

From Couch Potato to Trekker

Health

My little family is planning a backpacking adventure over the summer. Two weeks in and out of the wilderness. Considering not long ago I was what...

Creating Margin – Relationships

A Calm Sanctuary

This week in the Creating Margin series, we're going to talk about relationships. Specifically, how to curate relationships so that they have room...

Creating Margin Using Rituals

A Calm Sanctuary

This month I'm talking a lot about create white space, or margin, in different areas of our lives. When you fill every inch of your life with...

Creating Margin – In Your Career

A Calm Sanctuary

In recent years, there's been lots of articles around this particular subject. In our go, go, go world, how do you stop busy from taking over your...

Off Grid Living 2018 Quarter 1

Off Grid

Hello Friends! It's hard to believe March is coming to an end. Our Wyoming weather has been very spring-like for most of March. It has been so nice...

A few of my favorite things ~ March 2018

A Calm Sanctuary

March is nearly done already and I can't believe it! I've been busy, busy, busy this month. I've found little ways to slow down and relax. Here are...

Physical Activity for Health and Well-Being

Health

When I was 41 I started experiencing extreme tiredness, stomach troubles and body aches. It got so bad that I spent many an afternoon lying on the...

Heating the Off-Grid Cabin

20 Acre Homestead, Life in Wyoming, Off Grid

We're finishing up our second winter in our off-grid cabin. Living in Wyoming we often have rapid and frequent changes between mild and cold spells....

A few of my favorite things ~ February 2018

A Calm Sanctuary

ZuzkaLight.com - The Zgym The past couple years I've struggled with getting enough daily exercise. I'd try to wake up early, or workout after I...

How to Deal with Stress

A Calm Sanctuary

I once heard Kevin Michael Geary of RebootedBody.com compare modern society, from a hormonal standpoint, to being chased by a bear, constantly,...

Setting Up House – Establishing a Cleaning Routine

A Calm Sanctuary

When my husband and I bought our first home, I struggled to keep up with the housework. It makes me anxious to come home from work and have a living...

Why not have a frugal Valentine’s Day?

Around the Homestead

Sometimes the way to someone's heart isn't through expensive gestures, fighting other consumers for the same goods just so you can remind the person...