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I’m not sure if I’ve mentioned this before, but my husband is an elder in our (fairly small) Presbyterian denomination. This is one of the two weeks that the elders and their wives get together each year. So my husband and I are flying across the country this week – […]
The great thing about getting to the end of a year is that we get a real chance to stop and look back at the year that we’re just finishing. So much has changed this year, and I wanted to take some time and reflect and share some of the […]
Do you consider yourself to be someone who is into preparedness? Are you striving to live a more self-sufficient lifestyle? Are you dabbling or are you all in? No matter which one you find yourself fitting into better, there are six downfalls that I notice are common among most people […]
Everything comes with change. Whether it’s a new year coming along or a child getting a driver’s license or starting a new garden. Nothing ever stays the same. Everything has a season of beginning and ending. My daughter recently asked me whether or not I would be happy when all […]
When we consider financial preparedness, it is so easy to sit in our homes, watching our TV’s (or computers) and to belly-ache about how costs are rising or how it’s hard to make ends meet. It’s both as simple as income vs. outgo and NOT as simple as income vs. […]
When I was 20 years old, I felt invincible. Even at 35, it still felt like I was going to live forever. As I passed 40 and then 45, life feels different. I’m starting to slow down. I’ve started to feel my frailties. I’ve been out to Kansas City doing […]
Have you ever watched Doomsday Preppers? They paint quite a vivid (and not realistic) picture of preparedness – both survivalists and homesteaders. It’s kinda like this meme. Everyone sees us in different ways. Have you ever considered that there are different types of preppers and that perhaps the type […]
I was having a conversation with a friend recently. She has, unbeknownst to me, been reading some of my articles on “Normal People Preparing for TEOTWAWKI.” She said she read through the whole article waiting for me to tell her what the acronym TEOTWAWKI meant, and……well…..I didn’t. So that got […]
About a year ago, a friend texted me around 8:30 at night asking if my oldest daughter could babysit her kids the next day because she had to go to a birth. She’s a midwife. But before the next morning, it started snowing. We were only supposed to get 3-6 […]
One great way of being prepared for winter is to put together a kit full of things that you may need in the case of a winter storm. Why should we put together a kit? I remember, about ten years ago, my husband had been flown to a town in […]
