No Spend Months: Who's joining in.

Last week I talked about some of my favorite topics in my frugal living articles – using time instead of money, leftovers, and going gluten-free on the cheap. First I shared more ideas for ways we can avoid the need for more money by doing a bunch of things ourselves in… Saving at Home: More…

We’ve had a stretch of wintry days here and it’s been a lovely time of cozying in. The boys have delighted in the morning frost, freezing rain, and ice treasures. There have been a host of simple meals made on the wood stove. School books have flown freely with little boys filling their minds with…

The day began like many others – a fire in the wood stove, fried eggs for us, greens shake for him. We talk, he takes his first dose of supplements, and hands me mine because “We can’t both be down.” And he’s right. After many mid-mornings of dragging myself from chore to chore I am…

Something has shifted here though I can’t say just what. It’s not fall by any stretch of the imagination, but I wonder if we are coming out of the you-might-die-if-you-don’t-carefully-monitor-your-sweat-output-and-water-intake-with-every-second-of-your-day season, also known as summer. And just when I was getting used to it… In other exciting news: the long-awaited fence is going up! Chickens…