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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
We have been ready to move to our forever homestead for some time now, but the right property has yet to hit the market. At the same time, it’s impossible not to notice the rising prices of well, everything. We realize that flexibility continues to be a huge key to …
After years of hard work, and surviving pandemic quarantine with five kids in a 1,300 square foot home . . . We are finally ready to move into our forever homestead! There is a down payment in the bank and we have our mortgage preapproval letters. The next step is …
The typical American household will spend $2,100 every year on home maintenance costs, according to the American Housing Survey. However, failing to check your home for repair issues or putting off repair work can result in extra cost. We’re certainly guilty of trying to ignore some of those smaller things in need …
