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No matter where you live; learn to think like a homesteader & you'll save money!
"I took the road less traveled by, and that has made all the difference."
Robert Frost (The Road Not Taken 1915) This poem always made me reflect on life. Am I a follower or a leader? Do I know when to be one or the other?"
The road less traveled by" - what does that look like now in this day and time? I've come across the poem again and read it with new eyes each time:
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth.
Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same.
And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.
I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I--
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.
The road less traveled by can be viewed as having made a difference in our lives with either regret or with contentment. It's not the road that leads to our happiness, but the way we view the choice that leads to it.
Our family has chosen the road less traveled to homestead. Are there days it is not easy and the work load is heavy? You better believe it! But if I look to the more often treaded road and long to have taken it, there is a difference that would be missing in my life, the life of our family and kids that could not be replaced by another choice. The chickens hatching, the bunnies, the garden work and rewards, the firewood and marshmallows - all are 'the differences' we have due to that choice of roads. Every day you, the reader of this post, make choices. You made the choice to read this (bless you!) and will make a choice how to receive it as an attitude. Reading it is not what makes the impact upon your happiness - your attitude toward the choice is what impacts your life.
When choosing to skimp, save and live frugally even though it seems like hard work, it is the road less traveled by. Developing a homesteading mindset, even in the suburbs is also a road less traveled by. What we do with that choice and how we view that choice is what makes all the difference.
Best Blessings and enJOY the journey!
Donna
Donna Miller is a work-from-home wife and mother. She delighted to share her trials and triumphs of learning to homestead anywhere. The Millers own and operate Millers Grain House which offers Organic and Chemical-free Whole Grains, Bosch Mixers, the NutriMill, instructional tutorials, recipes and more.
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About Millers Grain House
Hi! I am Donna Miller – A Happy Wife, Home-school Parent of three Graduates, Author, Homesteader, Entrepreneur-http://www.millersgrainhouse.com/store, Visual Kitchen Mentor-http://www.youtube.com/user/thewheatguy and Frugal Fanatic.
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