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A customer reviewed our home Chibbit (mobile chicken coop and rabbit hutch) post: Chibbit – PJ's Projects (pjsprojects.com).  They wondered if we would consider creating a mobile rabbit hutch for their suburban home. We took on the project!  This project was completed during my hospital incarceration (see details here:We Had A Baby! – PJ's Projects (shopifypreview.com). So ,the hubby was forced to complete and deliver the entire project by himself. Personally, I think he did a fantastic job! I have even considered having him build something similar for our property so that I may expand our rabbit family. Don't tell him, yet!...

We have been homeschooling for many years and I sometimes forget that what we do isn't the same for others. So, I decided to try adding a monthly homeschool recap to this blog to demonstrate one way (there are so many methods out there!) that homeschooling can work.  We use an eclectic method of homeschooling that leans very heavily towards the Charlotte Mason method of teaching. Without going into too much detail about this method, it can be described as very literature-heavy. We read and discuss A LOT of books. We don't spend a lot of time on workbooks, worksheets, etc.,...

Other couples may choose to spend a weekend getaway going to a concert, the beach or other relaxing spot. We have discovered that we enjoy going to conferences or festivals to inspire conversations and more projects. For a late anniversary getaway, we chose to travel to Camden, Tennessee for the Self Reliance Festival. We sent the big kids to the grandparents (the baby is still attached to my boob!), prepped the homestead, loaded the car and hit the road.  We learned many things at this event and I'm writing this post to share some of them with you.    The...

If you have read some of my previous blog posts, you may have noticed my disappointment and lack of faith in the field of healthcare to provide what its name implies, improved health for the patient. There are many healthcare professionals that truly want to do what is best for their patients but find themselves as unwilling cogs in the healthcare system. There are many factors in the failure of this system. I will only discuss one of them today, the misnomer that we call health insurance. Health insurance is not real insurance. The definition of insurance is “an arrangement...

We have been homeschooling for many years and I sometimes forget that what we do isn't the same for others. So, I decided to try adding a monthly homeschool recap to this blog to demonstrate one way (there are so many methods out there!) that homeschooling can work.  We use an eclectic method of homeschooling that leans very heavily towards the Charlotte Mason method of teaching. Without going into too much detail about this method, it can be described as very literature-heavy. We read and discuss A LOT of books. We don't spend a lot of time on workbooks, worksheets, etc.,...