Tag: <span>kaleidoscope homestead</span>

My Big Mistake With The Grow Room

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 …

Closing Out 2023 & Exciting Plans For The New Year

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 …

Announcing: Two New Resources For Better Work-Life Balance

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 …

Reflections On “The Road-Less-Traveled” Challenge, Seven Years Later

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 …

Four Foraged Foods From Our Homestead

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 …

Monday Medley: Summer Update From The Homestead

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 …

Spring Update From Our Kaleidoscope Homestead

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 …

Maintaining Momentum After Achieving Big Goals

It can be tempting at times, to focus on your accomplishments, and decide that you’ve done enough.  We have been working so hard for the past decade.  After paying off our debt and moving to the forever homestead, it’s been difficult to resist the lure of celebration, relaxing, and letting …

The Journey To Our Forever Homestead

Finally closing on our forever homestead felt like so much more than just buying a house, because it represented an arrival at the destination we had been dreaming of through a long journey.  From paying off debt and being surprised by twins, to surviving a pandemic, this milestone has been …

Finally, We Found Our Forever Homestead

Just one month ago, we were making adjustments and accepting that it may take a bit longer than expected to move to our forever homestead.  My most recent blog post was even about this acquiescence.  But, it wasn’t time to give up yet.  Exciting news: We found a wonderful property …