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Tag: WAHW

  • Making Homemade Butter: Life Lessons from the Kitchen

    Making Homemade Butter: Life Lessons from the Kitchen

    Ah, the life of a writer… finding similarities in the oddest of scenarios. One of my “New Year’s Resolutions”, is to source my food holistically and locally. This in hopes of successfully coming alongside the low iron deficiency anemia and MTHFR that I’ve been diagnosed with. So, I decided to try my hand at making…

  • How We’re Improving Our Finances in 2018

    How We’re Improving Our Finances in 2018

    When Brooks and I started our life together, we had a very specific plan in place for our future – career and financially speaking. There were many components to that plan – debt freedom, investing, business pursuits, farming, and what I call life living pursuits (travel & recreation). Slowly but surely we’ve been whittling away…

  • Established: How We Attain Our Goals

    Established: How We Attain Our Goals

    Brooks and I have always been goal keepers [notice I said goal keepers and not goal setters]. About the time we married, we wrote out our life goals. Family goals, starting & growing a profitable business, growing our own food, paying debt off, raising a large herd of livestock, goals regarding our quality of life, a trip to Wyoming, and few financial…

  • Farmhouse Tour: Fall 2016

    Farmhouse Tour: Fall 2016

    Photography Credits: Ashley Duke, Faith Photography Resources: Listings at End of Tour W E L C O M E! It’s that time of year again! Time to peruse all of the details of a decorated farmhouse. Before it gets covered in muck boots, farm-wear, and the aspects of a farm that don’t need to be highlighted…

  • How to Thrive as a Stay At Home Wife or WAHW

    How to Thrive as a Stay At Home Wife or WAHW

    When Brooks and I decided I was going to be a SAHW/WAHW, we knew to expect certain challenges. Things like striving to live off of one income, downsizing our lifestyle, etc. was all known to us. But, there are, also, mental challenges to being a stay at home wife {SAHW} or work at home wife!…