If you are in my facebook group you may have seen this message already but this is for those who aren't!  You may have noticed I’ve been absent for most of this summer.   Well, to sum things up LIFE happened ... plus my thyroid has been problematic again, making me feeling exhausted and overwhelmed … and finally something had to give. 

Unfortunately it was mostly my prepping, which then made me feel like I didn’t have much to post about. And then on top of being busy and tired, I started feeling guilty that I’m not in prepping mode so just sort of stayed silent and uninvolved.  Ugh!

Recently my mom gave me some good advice that is a quote from Ecclesiastes and it hit home and encouraged me to send this email today.

“For everything there is a season, a time for every activity under heaven.”

Maybe this summer I wasn’t meant to plant my new garden, re-organize my 72 hour kits, finish sorting out my pantry, get my freeze-dryer up and running, work on canning projects, bake homemade bread, update my first aid supplies, finish the meal-in-a-jar cookbook I’ve been developing, post reels on instagram every week, be active in this facebook group daily, and keep producing new recipes to put on the blog and send out to my email subscribers.

But what I DID accomplish is:

• Put on a huge graduation party for our oldest daughter
• Take our seven kids to DisneyWorld for a week
• Plan, shop, and cook three meals a day for 90 teenage girls at a church camp for 4 days (view my video summary of this project!)
• Celebrate two birthdays, Father’s Day and Mother’s Day
• Work full-time helping out at my husband’s office due to staffing shortages
• Plant four fruit trees
• Drive teenagers to and from work every day
• Have about 20 kids over to celebrate 4th of July including feeding them all
• Visit with my brother and sister-in-law (Julie who used to run Food Storage Made Easy with me!) who came to visit us in Pennsylvania all the way from Utah with their four boys
• Prepare a training class on cooking meals-in-a-jar for Thrive Life’s convention coming up next week, yay!
• AND feed my family and take care of a house full of kids all summer when they are here ALL DAY LONG…..

This was not my season to prep or even to provide good content to help YOU prep and for that I apologize. But I have faith that that time will come, I will have a chance to do every activity that I need/want to do … and it’s ok that that was not this summer.

I am starting to feel better with my meds being adjusted, the rest of our summer is pretty low-key, and my husband’s office was able to hire some new good employees (hurray!) 

So I want to start working on my projects and posting and emailing again and being the helpful resource that you have come to rely upon. It’s a little hard to come back when I have been silent for so long but at some point you have to JUST START! So if you have gotten off track with your prepping, don’t put off getting started again. Just jump in and do something, even if it’s just something small. And we will all be here to cheer you on.

Thanks for being the BEST readers/subscribers and for being so supportive in sharing my content, purchasing products from me, and being active members of my community. I am truly blessed by you all. And if you’ve been waiting for a response to an email or message you’ve sent me … it’s coming soon.