We are excited to introduce you to our next Kitchen of the Week guest blogger, Heather, who blogs at Want What You Have.
My name is Heather, and I’m a stay-at-home mother of two beautiful daughters, ages 6 and 2. I feel so blessed to be a mother, because I struggled with infertility, and both of [...]

When we are pleased with ourselves and feeling a sense of pride and accomplishment at achieving or completing some enormous task, we celebrate! Granted, we typically do not have a party, but we may go out to dinner, gives ourselves some other little treat, or even just bask in the feeling. But why don’t we [...]

I’ve never read a book about “Simplicity” or “Simple Living.” In fact, until very recently I didn’t even know there was such a thing as a Simplicity Movement. Most of what little I do know about simple living I’ve learned from Kate during her series of posts about simplicity. This whole “simplicity” thing is still [...]

At times when we were beginning our journey of voluntary simplicity, I’d often wonder if we were heading down the wrong path. Was it really possible for us to live a simple life given our circumstances? Our situation certainly didn’t mesh with my view of simplicity. Were we being foolish to believe that we could [...]

I’m sure there are some people out there who can decide they want to lead lives of simplicity, flip and a switch and voila, they are instantly living simply. That hasn’t been the case for my family. Far from it in fact. We have found that taking baby steps toward simplicity is the best way [...]

For my family, living a life simplicity has meant many changes, shifts in perspective, and long-range goals. Like everything, namely life in general, simplicity is a journey. We have found that living a simple life doesn’t happen over night. But, we are always striving to get there.
Our number one long-range goal has been to spend [...]

The relationship between simple living and consumerism is an interesting one. As it turns out, even if you are living a simple life, sometimes you just need new things. Some would even argue that there are times when you need to buy things in order to simplify your life.
I remember reading a book on simplifying [...]

Our family’s journey toward simplicity has really led to so many changes in our lives, although most of them are not visible to just the casual observer. We tend to place more importance on our inward simplicity than on our outward simplicity, although the two certainly go hand-in-hand. However, the most visual aspect of our [...]

When our family began our journey to simplicity, one of the subjects we began to research in depth was our eating habits. We had previously been oblivious, or at least we chose to be, to all of the “bad stuff” that was in food. There is just nothing simple about a food that contains a list [...]