After months of excited planning, I recently started growing vegetables and flowers in a grow room in our basement. Overall, it has gone well and we will have lots ready to plant in the garden. I did, however, make one big mistake this first time starting seedlings in a grow …
Happy New Year from Our Kaleidoscope Homestead! We hope your holiday season was filled with joy and happy memories, and that you’re feeling refreshed and motivated for the wonderful year ahead of us. The past few months have been very busy for us, and we have a couple of very …
Greetings from our homestead! In the near decade since this blog was born, I’ve worked diligently to achieve better balance between work and so many other passions. Now, I have two ways to share some of my acquired skills and knowledge with everyone. As a New Years’ gift, I …
Back in 2016, we had just started on our journey to destroy our debt, while mapping out a plan to achieve financial semi-independence. A lot has changed since then, including the addition of twins and moving to a forever homestead. Have our goals or strategies changed too? What can we …
When we purchased our new home, with 16 acres, I was very hopeful that we would be able to forage some free food for our family of seven. There is now a garden with lots of delicious vegetables, but it was very exciting to find a few edible things already …
In February of 2020, we took our five kids on an epic RV road trip all over California. Our trip started off with a visit to my sister, near Los Angeles, and then it was time for the real adventure. Our first stops were the La Brea Tar Pits & …
Happy Summer! It’s time for a little update on our family’s journey to build a homestead that will support our dream of financial semi-independence, and all the things we enjoy along the way. Family The kids have been out of school for a couple of weeks now, and they …
We took all five kids on a month-long RV adventure in California back in February of 2020. The process of coming up with the route and itinerary for the trip was quite the process. Our trip ended up including a variety of destinations that provided us with so many wonderful …
Greetings from Our Kaleidoscope Homestead. While it has been a eventful winter that kept us busy, we’ve been anxiously awaiting the next season at our new home. Here is your update on what’s been happening and what’s to come, as we build our financially semi-independent, family homestead. Our Home Older …
Time for an update on our progress in Creating Our Kaleidoscope of a life: even though our family is mostly settled into the new home, there is still more work to be done towards our next goal of financial semi-independence. The Holidays We just hosted Thanksgiving for our …
