Monday nights at our house are typically our Family Night (in our church it’s called Family Home Evening). We play games and spend time together and have a spiritual lesson and treats. Always treats. I love to occasionally toss in preparedness lessons or activities. Sometimes working in the garden is the activity (those nights are […]
Special Survival Situations: Pregnancy
Here’s a situation that’s obviously on my mind lately. What if an emergency hits while I’m pregnant? With the rate that ladies are pregnant in this world, the possibility that someone you know is going to be expecting a little one when an emergency happens is pretty good. I’ll say now that every woman handles […]
Baby 72 Hour Survival Kit
Babies and toddlers have a whole different set of needs than we adults do when it comes to a survival situation, so your standard survival kit isn’t going to work for them. We’ve always just stuck baby stuff in our survival kits when we had a baby in the house, but this time I’m doing […]
The Technology Trap – The Logic of Un-Automating Your Kids
Guest post by Renee Bedford Note from Angela: Renee contacted me a while back and, noting our similar desire to have our kids out doing instead of plugged in to some form of electronics, she offered to write a guest post on the subject. Enjoy, and think about maybe lessening the amount of time your […]
Dehydrated Baby Food: Sweet Potato, Pumpkin, Squash
Last week I had some leftover pumpkin from making a pumpkin roll and just happened to have sweet potatoes left over from Christmas dinner at the same time, so I pulled some frozen “squash” out of the freezer (why I labeled it with only “squash” and not the variety, I do not know) and let […]
Make Your Own Dehydrated Baby Food
I know you’re thinking why not just make the baby food and either use it or freeze it, but I’m ahead of you on that one! Here’s why you would want some dehydrated baby food. For taking along when baby goes for their backpacking adventure (you know carrying the baby in the baby-backpack is heavy […]
Emergency School Backpack Survival Kit Thoughts
Suppose something catastrophic happened while your kids were at school. They are there a good part of the day, right? Unless you home school which would solve this little dilemma for you. But the majority of us send our kids off to school somewhere every weekday. We already have a plan in place with the […]
7 Special Survival and Preparedness Situations
There are a number of situations for which you may need to alter the “standard” preparedness information you read or learn. Not every piece of survival advice applies to every family or each individual, and some can even be dangerous in certain situations. Here’s a list of 7 of the more common “kinks in the […]
A Trip to the Range with the Kids
My husband needed to sight in his muzzleloader for the hunt, so we took a trip to the range this weekend. Packed all the kids and the gear and the guns in the car and headed to an actual range. Usually we just go shoot at the hill outside of town, but for sighting in […]
Family Survival Training with Airsoft
Today we have a special guest post from John Durfee. I’m not experienced with airsoft much and he’s got some real good ideas here. Thanks, John. Enjoy :) Family Survival Training You’ve been watching him from your post for about ten minutes now. Your ingenious buddies knew of an old deer stand, which has made […]