The Girl who's waiting for me to be her.

My sister and I decided to change the name of this blog because we felt that calling ourselves wimps wasn't extremely uplifting. We want this blog to be about our goals and bettering ourselves. We only want positive things to be allowed on this blog. So if I decided that ice fishing is a goal of mine, than Kim has to be supportive of it and become an ice fisherman too.

So this post is to be about my goals for the year. Recently I read a book called Urban Homesteading, and it inspired me. I am being totally serious, I want to be a homesteader. I think it would be so much fun! Plus all the other tree huggery, economical reasons. This year I want to raise chickens, and be a maniac gardener who cans and dries all my harvest. I want to reuse as much as I can of what comes into my home. I want to to buy less, or at least if I do buy things, I want to buy them used.

My other goal, is that I want to start building things. Mostly crates and bins and stuff for the garden. I'd like to make things from barn wood, but first I'll need to convince my husband that it's a good idea to help me tear down an old barn. (With permission, of course.) This last weekend I built a work bench almost all by myself. I did all the cutting, and drilling. My husband Kris only helped me a little. It was so amazing to start with a pile of wood, and end up with a solid table!

My third goal, that should probably actually be my first, is I want to spend WAY more time having fun with my kids and teaching them things. I want to go camping and hiking, biking, and play games. I really want to learn and teach my kids survival skills, like how to make a fire without matches and things like that.(Yes, I've been watching "Doomsday Preppers" AND "Man Vs Wild") In short, I want to "get my house in order". I want to establish traditions and culture in my family.

It's weird to say, but I think most of us feel the urge to do these things. I think we're realizing that it's time for us as a people to start putting a higher value on things that deserve it, like time, good food, and skills that have been forgotten for convenience.

There is a person in my mind, who I want to be. This year will be the year that I pretend to be her, and then maybe I really will be.