Author: Shannon

I am wife to Stewart, mama of six, homeschooler, messy cook, and avid fermenter. This is where I tell our story... of building a sustainable off-grid homestead... of raising this growing family of ours... of the beauty and the hard and the joy in all of it.
Balancing Work at Home, Spanish Rice, and The Off-Grid Kitchen Series: a free-lance roundup

Balancing Work at Home, Spanish Rice, and The Off-Grid Kitchen Series: a free-lance roundup

Ironically, since we moved here, and especially since Annabelle was born, I have been "working" more than ever. I say working with parentheses because I think the phrase working mother is redundant for mothers and wives alike, if they are really doing their job. Because Stewart also "works" from home, (again parentheses because he also…

The Goings On

The Goings On

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…