Garden beds, chickens, farm life, food preservation, and building a homestead with kids.
This post was sponsored, and paid for, by SunTrust Mortgage. All opinions are my own. Whenever strangers or friends visit my home, they assume that I’m rich. I too like to assume that I’m rich when I’m buying shoes or eating out but in all of those cases that is not true, at least not…
Special thanks to Yogabed for being awesome and sponsoring this post. One of the benefits of being a military spouse is that you’re never in one place for long so if you like change moving every 3 years (or more) military moves or PCSing might be exciting for you. We recently moved to the DC area…
About 7 weeks ago I wrote on an envelope that I wanted to be in a commercial in 2017. Actually I wrote “ In 2017 me and my family will be in a commercial”. Now I wrote this down with the full understanding that it was pretty far fetched but I knew it was something…
Everybody wants to move to the country…….. OK well maybe not everybody but we really did. My husband and I would dream of owning land and raising our kids in an environment that was nothing like where we grew up, and we are finally able to make it happen. He grew up in the inner city,…
It’s been about 9 months since we’ve moved into our dream home and you’d think that I would’ve had enough time to decide how I want things to look but I don’t. When it comes to making decisions about decorating I am the worst! Scratch that when it comes to making decisions about anything I…
I Fear for my Husband in America Just as Much as I Do for Him on the Front Line. I Fear for my Husband in America Just as Much as I Do for Him on the Frontlines.*I struggled with how I would address what’s been going on in this country but I figured I’d be…
Yesterday was supposed to be a normal day. In fact, it was my “free” day. Yesterday was supposed to be what I like to call a glory day. Tuesdays are one of the 2 days a week that I can do whatever I please because all of my kids are in school. I had leftovers scheduled…
Yesterday we woke up to our first snow day, which was really exciting considering this is the kids first real experience with snow since they’ve only known winters in Hawaii. It started as lite rain and mixed flurries and the kids were ecstatic, Zion ran up to me and said: “Mommy, it’s so many snow,…
I‘m sure in this day and age, we’ve all purchased something that we haven’t seen in person before by way of the internet. But what’s the biggest purchase you’ve ever made without actually seeing it first? Maybe a digital camera? Or if you’re really a risk-taker, an expensive pair of jeans? Well, we bought a…
