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Hello Friend! Here are some ways to reduce your trips to the grocery store by producing and preserving your own food First up, we have homestead meal planning. One of the keys to reducing your grocery store visits is planning your meals around what you produce on your homestead. Whether it's fresh vegetables, fruits, or even homemade dairy products, creating a monthly meal calendar based on what's...

Hey friend!  I hope you are having a fabulous day!     I just want to talk to you about living life on purpose, so today you may want to grab a pen and paper or if you are driving, you can always listen to this again. If you are just going through the motions to get by each and every day, but not doing what God has called you to do, you may be unhappy.  I can’t believe the amount of people that go...

Hello! With having animals, moving and getting everything here ready for winter to make it convenient to feed and water all the animals,  we rarely spend time inside, so even being so busy, I wanted to give you 5 simple ways to keep your home clean when you have little time to do it.  Once you get into a simple routine, you are more likely to keep it tidy!     First, you may have to just make a li...

Hello!   I wanted to bring up some simple meals and snacks to send with your kids! If I don’t send nutritious snacks and drinks with the girls, they will end up going to a gas station and spending money they don’t need to on junk food, so I like to prepare as much as possible.   Something we always have on hand and the kids like is cheese sticks and summer sausage or beef sticks.  Anything Made wi...

Hello and Happy Labor Day Today I  want to discuss how important community is as we have been so amazed by the neighbors within a few miles of our home.  Everyone helps everyone and it has been such a blessing in so many ways.  The weird thing is that we only moved  5 miles, but we have been surrounded with the most helpful people we call friends as they have helped us navigate so many things with...

Hello I know you are busy and overwhelmed as a beginning homesteader working outside the home, but I want to help you to get started with less stress so you can enjoy the process of building your own homestead!   It can be exhausting thinking about all the things you want to do and could do, so I always suggest, start slow because there are so many things you can learn as you are trying to become...

Hello Let’s explore how the pursuit of perfection influences the homesteading lifestyle, and how the ideals of self-sufficiency and simplicity intersect with the human desire for perfection. Do you strive for perfection in various aspects of life? I think of how perfection may stall you in your pursuit of homesteading.  Most things here on our little farm are not perfect…in fact I don’t know of an...

Hello I want you to think about your life right now.  Do you feel like you are going 100 miles per hour at all times?  If so, you need to slow down!  My body was in exhaustion mode for about 3 weeks and I felt like I couldn’t add one more thing or I would crash, but I knew it was God’s way of telling me to step back and take a look at what I value and what is important.    This is not normally how...

Hello Another lessoned learned the last month is too much stuff is pure chaos.  All areas of my life feel unorganized when I had stuff everywhere-I almost forget a few appointments, I had a doctor bill that got lost in the mess and I got a letter last week saying this is your last notice-what?  I take pride on never being late on any bill as most are set up automatically, but that could have cost...

Hello I wanted to talk about having fun because at my parent’s 50th wedding anniversary party a couple weeks ago, my daughters were telling my nephews that they haven’t done anything this summer but work…..and yes, we have worked alot and they have been so much help, but they maybe forgot the many things they did do! They are so used to doing several day trips during the week and going to our cabi...

Hello Again!  This is so fun to be with you every day this week!!!! Remember, it is my Birthday week and I am going to give away 4- ½ hour coaching calls because it is the last year that my age will start with a 4!!!!!!   I help women simplify areas of their life they are struggling with…..it might be motherhood, saving money, decluttering, cooking from scratch, or homesteading so you can reduce o...

Hey There!  I am so excited to be doing this podcast every day this week and I hope to give you many nuggets that you can put into practice. I am going to give away 4- ½ hour coaching calls because it is the last year that my age will start with a 4!!!!!!  I don’t even think I have talked about my coaching on here, but I help women simplify areas of their life they are struggling with…..it might b...

Hello!   Thanks for all the love and reaching out while I was in the trenches of this move!  I will say that this was one of the hardest moves we have ever made even though we only went 5 miles!  I’m not sure if it is because we are 10 years older, if it is because we had alot more animals and things that go along with that when you have a homestead, or if it is because we had so much work to do o...

Hey! So why would you want to have a more natural home? I did not know when I was a young mom of all the toxins in soaps and cleaning supplies, plastics and so many other supplies I used every single day.  The fact is……I am still learning!  I noticed a big difference in going from mostly natural to being in contact with things I wouldn’t normally use.  I have used natural cleaning supplies for man...

I’m lucky enough to have friends where I can get my raw milk from until next Spring when we hopefully have our own after our goats give birth, so I just wanted to talk today about the benefits of Raw milk which refers to unpasteurized milk obtained directly from cows, goats, or sheep. While some advocate for its consumption due to potential health benefits, it's important to note that raw milk can...

As I was driving home yesterday, I was just thinking about you and if you are actually living how you want to be living.  It is just so different when you are living in God’s will and what He wants you to do and you are not living as the world lives and how they think you “should” be living.  So many people just go to college to get a job they don’t even enjoy and feel like they have to do it ever...

Hey Friend! Well, we made it through another homeschooling year and here are the lessons we learned!  I am so relieved that we homeschooled this year.  So much drama in my daughters grades that I am just so happy that they can focus on their work at home and then go to sports and just enjoy their friends and sports without being intertwined in that.  Not only are my kids learning the regular subje...

Hello! Feeling overwhelmed by the tasks you need to complete is a common experience especially as a beginning homesteader and busy mom, but there are several strategies you can use to manage these feelings and stay on top of your work: Prioritize tasks: Start by making a list of all the tasks you need to complete. Then, prioritize them based on urgency and importance. This will help you focus on t...

Hello Friend There have been many lessons already learned in these first few weeks of living in the fishhouse and I am sure looking forward to getting settled even though we will have so much to do to get everything ready for the animals at our new home!  I’m looking forward to it and even though it is alot of work, it is work we really enjoy! Making our homestead to fit our needs and designing it...

As our rhubarb is getting ready to harvest-well, my neighbor’s rhubarb is ready to harvest and she is going to let us have as much as we want because they still have a bunch from last year and my parents have 1 plant at their house and I was going to split their plant and plant at my new house, but I did see they have a plant as well-thank goodness!!  Rhubarb is really hard to kill and very easy t...

Here are 3 ways to change the feeling of overwhelmed to organized or peaceful. I believe if you know the main things that are happening within your week, you will have more peace and feel more organized.  Take a look at your week on Friday or Sunday for the following week so you are prepared for the upcoming events.  Write down anything you may need and if you can, have this written down where the...

Hey Friend! I just wanted to reflect on this simple living lifestyle and intentional living.  I say slow living sometimes, but honestly, sometimes-or most times, it isn’t slow, but it is very intentional. I think slow living is not sitting in front of the tv, but spending time doing things you enjoy doing.  I thrive on getting stuff done and learning all I can in so many different areas.  There ar...

Happy May Day!!!!! Thinking about starting your own backyard chicken coop and raising chickens, but feeling overwhelmed by all the supplies and information you need to get started? Don't worry, I've got you covered! In this episode, I'll cover the essential supplies you'll need, so you can be confident and prepared as you embark on this exciting new adventure.    First, you will want to have a pla...

If you are planning on raising chickens, this episode will give you some important information about them to give you peace of mind as a busy overwhelmed mom because I know…..it is just one more thing to take care of!   Really, truely caring for chickens can be simple.  Caring for chickens involves providing for their basic needs including food, water, shelte and you are going to want to do your r...

Hey There!  I hope you are having an awesome Monday!  I can’t even believe this, but we are almost to 100 episodes, so I am so excited to be giving away a few $25 amazon cards when we hit the 100th episode!!!!!  The only thing you need to do to be in on the drawing is add a 5 star rating and review and take a screenshot of it and email me at monica@claimingsimplicity.com .  I will read your review...