Intentional Fertility

May 20, 2019May 20, 2019 - The Country Wife 2 Comments

So…it’s been a good eight months since I last dropped by the blog for any length of time.

You may not realize this unless you are a blogger yourself, but writing blog posts is just one tiny, tiny piece of the puzzle of running a blog. It has been nice to let everything go on autopilot for these last few months.

I just felt like if I was going to take a break, then that break should be legit. A clean break from computer screens and self-inflicted deadlines. And that is exactly what this blog hiatus was all about.

Though I left you with a blog post about entering a season of rest, I have to be utterly honest with you… these past eight months haven’t just been relaxation for me. Rather, what used to be time spent working on Country Wife Chronicles quickly transitioned into time researching and implementing major lifestyle shifts in the name of #intentionalfertility.

My New Year’s Resolution FAIL

January 8, 2018January 10, 2018 - The Country Wife 2 Comments

Happy New Year! Oh, just a few days late…

So, let’s dive in to today’s topic, shall we? My New Year’s Resolution FAIL.

Yup, you read that right; I somehow managed to fail at my New Year’s resolution just a few days into the New Year. I couldn’t even make it into February like the rest of the world…

And for me, this fail is kinda monumental.

You see, as you should already know by now, I am a planner. Which means I love goals.

And I’m all about intention, which means when I set out to do something, I complete the task.

Oh, and I’m a perfectionist, which means I hate the feeling of failure.

I looked it up, and Google defines resolution as “a firm decision to do or not do something.” So, I guess that means I could revise my resolution to say that I was NOT going to do what I said I was going to do, and then I’d be a success. Or is that cheating?

Learning to Live Simply

November 21, 2016February 10, 2017 - The Country Wife Leave a comment

Let me just state it bluntly: I had to get used to frugality. Saving instead of spending was a fairly natural mindset for me, but in a career that paid me well and increased my salary with each consecutive year, convenience buys were worth it and price tags weren’t all that important.

And then the shift…