Everyday Simplicity

    In the hustle and bustle of our modern world it is easy for us to lose sight of what is important to us. Many years back families worked to support their families needs. Today many work to support not only their needs, but their wants, not basic human wants or wants for a few nice things, but wants to have more than we can imagine, more than our family before, and more than our neighbor or the stranger we pass in Wal-Mart. While wanting many things isn't necessarily bad or good, it does seem to mask what we really need. We as humans need, sustenance, shelter, rest, love, and satisfaction. Constantly driving forward for more things makes less time together reducing our rest, love, and satisfaction.
  While I am by no means a truly simplistic person, nor do I have experience of lose due to the desire for more, I do see that I need to find ways to bring myself and my loved ones back to the everyday simplicity of life before we all get sucked into this modern way of living.
  Staying at home with my daughter has grounded my daily activities, and opened an array of new interests to me that I may not have found without her. Spending my days teaching her and loving her is not all peaches and cream as the rushing thoughts of needing more, and finding ways to get it in a one income family still manage to creep into my head. Finding ways to re- purpose household items, reducing our costs for food while eating wholesome home cooked meals, and cutting out "convenience" items by making better versions at home help to eliminate those want more need more thoughts that can put a damper on any day.
   I decided to start this blog Rural by Heart, Suburban by Location as way to spread ideas to others who are located in the suburbs or the city who want to move passed the thoughts of needing more and want to live more like our families in decades passed who worked to survive and made use of the resources they had.