Why?

Why?  Why do I want this?   What is it?  Why?

I have been looking into being more frugal,  a better steward of the place we call home, and just a healthy example to my kiddos.   I have thumbs, green?  We'll see!  I am gonna start slow.  I have a dear partner in crime ( My BFF and neighbor) and hopefully we will grow as wives and mothers as well as grow some food and our savings!

A little about me.  I am a 32 year old Wife and Mother.  I have a son who is 7 and a daughter who is 2.  We live in a suburban development in a rural city.  I worked outside the home until October 2011.  I have been job hunting, but I am truly enjoying my time at home and think that this may become my new career.

I remember fondly, my Grandma Lorraine, she was a home economist, housewife, stay at home mom, or whatever the term is now a days.  I always wanted to be like her.  Grow my own food, can, sew, have a clean house, be available when my family needs me.  She seemed to have everything under control.  I know now how much work it really is!  But I love it!  I don't wake up wishing I didn't have to go to work!  I am my own boss!

My goal for the next week is to research more about what it means to be an urban, or in my case suburban, homesteader.  I hope to have a new thing to research each week and decide if it works for my family, develop a plan on how to implement it into my life  and report back on what I learn in my trials and errors.

Wish me luck!