“Mom, I’m boooooooored! What can I do?” If you’re a mom, I’m sure you’ve NEVER heard that statement. Games are one way to help keep your boredom at arm’s length from your kids this summer. So join us today as we talk about 5 educational and FUN games to teach […]
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Ignored Necessities Every Child Needs This Summer
As parents, we often think of preparedness in concrete terms. I need to purchase – learn – or do things in order to be prepared. Especially when it deals with our children, we need to take a different tack. Kids need to be prepared too. While they do need to […]
12 Survival Themed Books to Read to Your Children This Summer
I don’t know about your house, but summer is well underway in our house. Summer means that the kids have more free time, and I usually have more free time. One excellent way to spend time with my children is to read them survival-themed books. ***There are links in this […]
5 MUST HAVE Skills to Teach Your Children This Summer And Free Resources to To Help
Can you believe it’s summer already? We just had snow last month and next Monday is already Memorial Day – the unofficial start of summer. Is it just me or does every year seem to go faster than the year before? Since Summer is upon us, this year, I want […]
Prepping can be costly, but Adaptive Prepping is currently FREE!
If I asked you the question – “What’s one area of life that you excel at?” I bet that most of you could tell me pretty quickly. But if I asked you, “What’s one area of life that you really struggle?” I’m guessing most of you could tell me that […]
Do We Ever Finish Prepping?
Do We Ever “Arrive” in or Finish Prepping? By Cindy Lewis Dake For the first few years of my prepping journey, my experience was been leading me to think that I would never feel like I had done enough to stop worrying, at least at some level. There would always […]
10 Homesteading Skills for the Suburbs
Are you like me? Despite the fact that we’ve left the country to move back to the ‘burbs, that doesn’t mean that I’ve given up my dream of homesteading. If anything, my dreams are both more realistic and bigger than before. What about you? Even if at the moment there’s […]
Are You Making These 6 Rookie Gardening Mistakes?
We’ve all been there. Those first few months that you are working on learning a new hobby, everything seems to go wrong. Everything is SUCH a CHORE to get done. When you finally make a breakthrough in one area, then another problem area seems to crop up (pun SO intended!). […]
2024’s Creative Places to Find Seeds
In the last post from Kim, she coached us through steps that we can take to make sure that we have seeds for this year’s garden. But Kim’s not done when it comes to great advice on how to (1) not only make sure that you have seeds from your […]
Can’t Find Specific Seeds in 2024?
By Kim Deel Whether we’ve been gardening for years or learning how to Guerilla Garden more recently, we’re at a point in the US where many feel the need to grow at least some of their own food. What if you can’t find the specific seeds for plants that you […]