I love cloth diapers. I know that’s a silly thing to love. Most people love wine and dessert and napping in a hammock. I love those things too – but there is something special about cloth diapers. I rank them right up there with coffee and breakfast food and my children. Y’all, not including my husband, those are my top favorite things. Continue reading “Caring for Cloth Diapers”
Category: simple life
Chaos
How easy is it to get completely trapped in the chaotic whirlwind of life? We fill our schedule with an impossible list of to do’s: working, taking care of our homes, planning meals, attempting to keep tiny humans alive. All the while, we’re dreaming of what we’d like our future to be, knowing that we are barely staying afloat to survive the present moment, let alone focus on our future.
Sound a little bit too familiar? Continue reading “Chaos”
Peach Butter and Preserving
It is finally fall. Finally time for apple picking, pumpkin patches, golden red leaves, and warm homemade soups. Finally time to grab your jackets out of storage and time to put those flip-flops away.
I’m ready for you, fall. … Even if it is still in the 80s – stubborn Missouri.
With the fall comes time to harvest. And with the harvest, comes my favorite activity: canning. Continue reading “Peach Butter and Preserving”
Homemade Laundry Detergent
One way Phill and I like to spend our time is trying out new “DIY” projects. We have fun looking up new projects, trying them out, and then evaluating whether it is worth the time (and money).
Our latest project: homemade laundry detergent.
There are recipes for homemade laundry soap all over the internet. Every recipe we looked through had their own quirks, but all of them essentially have the same ingredients. After reviewing a dozen or so, we picked one out and gave it a go. Continue reading “Homemade Laundry Detergent”
For Love of Cloth
Our son was born seven months ago and he is the happiest baby on the block – well, the only baby on the block, but still. Just look at this adorableness!
We have been joyfully diapering this little monkey with cloth diapers for the last seven months, and I couldn’t imagine it any other way!
To live in the homesteading mindset means to live modestly and to also be stewards of our planet. When you find a way to frugally be stewards of the earth, it’s a double victory! Cue cloth diapers. Continue reading “For Love of Cloth”
Our Time
Doesn’t a fresh snow just warm your heart? There’s nothing I love more than waking up to see a fresh inch or two of snow blanketing the world around us. There’s something magical about the snow – something that brings me back to a sense of childlike wonder and awe.
This morning, I woke to find a fresh inch covering the outside world. Continue reading “Our Time”