Humble Ambitions: Follow-up on NOT MIC

Monday, January 16, 2012

Follow-up on NOT MIC

For those of you who are interested, i have created a tab on this blog, up there at the top, labeled, "not made in China." I have listed those resources that i am presently aware of for finding businesses creating products here in the USA.

I hope that this page will grow as i learn of more and more businesses and products that we can all be proud to support, as Americans.

Please check it out and let me know what i can add.

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bethanial11Jan 21, 2012 06:01 PM
The "loveable loo" (humanure.com)
Cuppow.cow - looks like a disposable coffee cup lid, dishwasher safe, bpa free, screws onto a mason jar with a standard ring
Most of the stuff at lehmans.com
And Hobby Lobby's "I Love This Yarn" brands are made in Turkey :)
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Who i am, what i want, and what i do

I feel a little silly telling people about myself...me me me me me me. But YOU came to MY blog, so maybe you're interested. ;)

Who am i?

I'm a wife, a homemaker, a daughter, a friend, and most importantly a child of God.

What do i want?

First, i want my life, my words, my actions, to somehow affect the people i love, the people i come in contact with, the people who read what i write, the people who may someday hear about my life, to come closer to knowing our God, the One described in the Holy Bible (in case there was any confusion).

I want to be a godly wife, a godly mother (no kids actually live in my house YET, but that's coming), a good friend. I want to honor the Lord by exercising wisdom in my life, and i do not want to be dependent on the world's system for my survival.

I want to write and connect and sometimes entertain and maybe even teach.

I want to honor God.

What do i do?

I spend my days trying to learn to be a farmer, a better country girl, a better wife, and a better child of God.

I am married to my perfect match. He's big and strong and protective, yet he sews, gardens, and cooks. He's smart and artistic and funny. He can build anything, move anything, conquer anything, and he loves me better than i ever imagined a husband could. He's a homegrown Texas boy through and through. And he's my perfect match from God. You will hear me refer to him as my something-slinging-super-hero, or something similar from time to time. He's my gun slingin' super hero, my hoe slingin' super gardener, my kitten lovin' super husband. Whatever. I think he's super.

We are recent owners of a very small country house on a smallish plot of land in the middle of the woods, not very far from a small town where we both went to high school, in East Texas. Our goals include using this land to develop a level of food sovereignty. To that end, we have a small flock of chickens who started laying eggs the beginning of 2010. We learned that we are not rabbit ranchers in 2010, but we still have a growing garden and hopes to obtain something we can milk, and the know-how to fish and hunt for our food. We would like very much to make our own cheese and butter, and put away a store of canned fruits of our labor like our grandparents did.

Simplicity, these are a few of our humble ambitions.

Early in 2011, we made the decision, together, that i would go back to work for a time so that my book-readin'-super-student can finish his education. Our schedule is crazier now, but our goals and ambitions are the same.

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Monday, January 16, 2012

Follow-up on NOT MIC

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