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Dreams More than three years ago, I had a dream. I thought about writing a book. A lot of people dream about it. Perhaps you’ve dreamed about it. But I didn’t do that on my own. I wanted to take a class that walked me through writing my book step […]
I believe in preparedness. I know. It’s shocking coming from a preparedness author who runs a preparedness blog. But I think that sometimes Christians fall into onto of two categories. One group believes that being prepared is lacking faith. The other group understands that preparedness flows out of their Christianity. […]
Have you noticed recently that food prices have been getting higher and higher? Sometimes it feels like we are at the mercy and whims of people with much more power than we have. Power to create shortages, to raise prices, to cause inflation. So what can we do about that? […]
I don’t know what it’s like where you are, but we have been having very autumnal temperatures this last week. I know it’s only a couple of weeks to a month (at best) until I’m pulling our tomato and pepper plants out. Have you started planning or planting your fall […]
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. […]
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 […]
Failure has gotten a bad rap. No one wants to fail and, can we blame them? Which sounds more prestigious? (1) I just got demoted at my job. (2) My boss was so happy with my performance that he announced my name during a company meeting. Well, duh! The vast […]
I spent some time this last week looking over this past year and it’s accomplishments. I also spent some time thinking about next year. What do I want to accomplish? Are there specific kinds of posts do I want to write for you? What projects do I want to tackle […]
Christmas is Tuesday. New Years follows the week after. Even in the midst of the busyness of the season, I am caused to pause and reflect on this year and the things that I’ve learned. As I get older and my children grow, life has seemed to pick up a […]
Christmas time is right around the corner. I love the beauty of Christmas and its decorations. I adore watching the kids open their gifts, but my favorite holiday is Thanksgiving. This year I have so much to be thankful for, and I wanted to take some time to share some […]
Preparedness. It’s as simple as being prepared. For what are we preparing. Some people start with TEOTWAWKI aka The End of the World as We Know it. While that is not outside the realm of possibility, it is much more likely that something much smaller than TEOTWAWKI. It may be […]
Everyone has reasons for everything that they do, even when they don’t know what those reasons are. Sometimes people may even know why they are doing what they are doing, but they can’t even express it in words. Our prepping has reasons behind it too. Why We Do What We […]
You can find the first three parts of this Financial Preparedness series here, here, and here. Pretend with me that it’s August 20th. You head to your pantry to see what you can make for dinner and realize that the pantry is rather sparse. Since you don’t want to dig […]
You know who your best friend is. It’s the person that you spend all your time with. It’s the person that you’re careful to guard that relationship, to nurture it. You do things for your best friend that you wouldn’t do for just anyone. You buy gifts for that person if you […]
