Homesteading Quest

 Make sure to read  Part 1 ( Diagnosis) and Part 2 ( surgeries) .  So here we are, one full year after my diagnosis. This is going to be very raw and vulnerable and honest. If you are going...

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 Make sure to read yesterday's post to read about my diagnosis.  So my husband and I went to the breast surgeon ( maybe she does other kinds of cancer surgeries too?, I'm not sure).  She a...

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Here we are.  My church family knows this, and of course my family and close friends do as well. But it wasn't something I shared far and wide. I have wanted to share my story. It's not pretty...

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 Hello everyone,  I am back! My blog was something that I really found enjoyable to work on for several years and then like we all know- life happened. It has happened to me in the most inten...

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 Well, we are just 4 days into January but we are doing great with our $60 challenge. You can read about it here.  The last time I went grocery shopping was December 15th, and I plan on only...

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 I recently received a settlement in the mail for $16.15 from Kotex ( Kimberly Clark). I'm not exactly sure what it is for, but with a family that includes myself plus 2 teenaged daughters, I'm ...

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 The last few years I have been doing a $100 grocery challenge for January. I normally spend $400 for my family of 5 ( ages 15,13,9) and my husband and I. My husband and I both work full time, h...

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 Yes, I know for many 2020 did not turn out as you had hoped. I can honestly say there were things about it that did not turn out like I had hoped. Many have lost jobs and lost loved ones. It's ...

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 You may recall that my husband and I have been trying to get out of debt for some time now. It started with  $152,852 in debt in January of 2018 which is when we decided that was enough. You ...

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 Hello friends,  Just to rehash, my family and I started with $152,852 in debt in January of 2018 which is when I decided that was enough. You can read about that here.  Since then we hav...

http://homesteadingquest.blogspot.com/2020/08/debt-free-journey-update.html

We are all still safe and at home. My husband and I are working from home and the kids are doing their school work from home. My son is getting speech therapy via Zoom conferences as well. We all...

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KIDS SCHOOL Spring Break for myself as well as the kids. So we are not doing any kind of school work this week. MY WORK It is Spring Break at the university I work at, but I still have stuff to ...

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KIDS SCHOOL Spring Break for myself as well as the kids. So we are not doing any kind of school work this week. MY WORK It is Spring Break at the university I work at, but I still have stuf...

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I read somewhere that it is important to take notes on this chapter in our history, as one day we may want to reflect back on it. I'm not doing anything else at the moment so thought this would b...

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Book Review: White Christmas Pie by Wanda E. Brunstetter While I do love reading, I'm not getting to it as often as I like nowadays. I keep saying once I'm finished with my PhD I'll have more t...

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Yesterday I posted about my challenge to spend only $100 in January on groceries for my family of 5. I just wanted to expand on that a bit. I'm hoping to keep my spending down in January to jump...

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January Challenge: $100 this month for groceries! Week 1 We are a family of 5, kids are 14,12 and 8 and both my husband and I work full time. We are trying to pay down our debt , live inte...

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Happy New Year's Eve! I did want to just give an update on a few things going on in our life, and I would love to start updating the site more often. I've tried to clean up the site a bit ( I ...

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   You all know that I love me some Dollar Tree . I'm excited that they have some great blog posts out for their affiliates to use! Please remember: This post also contains affiliate links and...

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If you read this title I know you are thinking.... WHAT? I'll explain. My son stayed the night with my parents Saturday night and apparently my mom went to the grocery store and brought home a ...

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ABUNDANCE Abundance. That is my word this year! Every year I try to pick out a word that I'm really going to focus on. You can read about a few previous years and my "word" here.   This y...

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In my quest for frugality and still eating good tasting food We have turned towards casserole quite a bit lately. It's a nice dinner and I normally serve it with a green salad and a veggie. My yo...

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I'm off work for the holidays but my husband will be going to work this week. One thing that I've been doing for a while now is making sure we have our lunches ready to go for the week before we...

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My husband and I have three kids and of course Christmas comes round once a year. So this year I tried to earn a few gift cards here and there through a few sites to save some money for the holid...

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It's been a while since I've posted about our debt free journey. You can read about the mountains of debt we have here and here.  So you may recall that at the beginning of this year we star...

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