We try our hand at some fun science experiments we saw online! We messed up a little, but ultimately succeeded in transforming a normal egg into a squishy bouncy ball, and creating slime that is attracted to MAGNETS!
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How to Cope with Living in a Small Town (From a Former City Slicker)
As a life long “city girl” I know ALL the drawbacks to moving from the big city to a small town or the countryside and the hangups people have against doing so. I’d like to get into how to cope with living in a small town and why once you are able to make adjustments it is much better for your mental and physical health to kiss the city life goodbye.
When I met my husband what attracted me to him was his rugged masculinity and individualism. What I only realized once we began to plan our lives together was that being with him meant I would never be living in a major city again. My husband is a mountain man who needs wide open spaces and property.
Here are a few of the adjustments I made over the years that have taken me from HATING small town life, to loving it far more than the big city.
Learn how to cook.
Food options or the lack thereof are likely going to be the largest negative factor of living outside of a bigger city. Learning how to cook and find the ingredients for the foods I was craving the most, ended up eliminating virtually every downside I had to living in a small town.
Travel
Look at your house as an estate or a home base. We home school and once I quit my job and was able to travel, it took me from being bitter and resentful about my living situation to genuinely hating the city. We go with my husband on his work trips every month or two. A few days in a place like Dallas, Seattle, Nashville, or Phoenix, more than gives me my fill of whatever cultural or big city activities I’d like to do, and has me so thankful to return to my small town where I am not suffocated by tall buildings and endless long lines everywhere I go. We have decided we will probably get a couple vacation houses (one in Dallas and another outside Phoenix) that we will rent out the rest of the year. Living the simple life, and getting a taste of the city a few times a year gives you the perfect balance to meet your needs.
Turn your home into an oasis
(this takes time!!) but luckily even before you reach your goal of creating your oasis, you can focus on creating it, which takes up a lot of mental and physical energy. Turning my home into my own resort/ oasis/ vacation station is very rewarding. We have bikes, a play ground, a hot tub, my daughter has an outdoor art studio equipped with a heater for the winter and a tv for her to watch tv while crafting. and I’ve worked on decorating and renovating our home and renovating the apartment above our garage into an airbnb rental where others will come when they’re visiting family or on vacation.
Find your places.
This means locating your favorite tanning salon, nail salon, select restaurants, and gaining increased knowledge of local events. Before you find them, you can POSITIVELY focus on finding them. This will give you a sense of purpose and a fun task to do so you don’t spend your time thinking about missing the city.
I would sooner die than ever live year round in a major city ever again. I am fine with a condo in Dallas to spend Christmas with family and a fun downtown house in Phoenix to enjoy the spring weather for a few weeks every year but nothing more. The small town country life allows your creativity to flow, it allows you to disconnect and distance yourself from every negative cultural and mental influence that plagues us as members of modern society. It truly allows you to have it all and reap the benefits of having the best of both worlds. The thought of having a forever home in a major city or suburb now sounds oppressive and suffocating. To have land and space and freedom of movement is now so much more appealing. Horses, cows, goats, sustainability, an estate, endless possibilities to build and grow and create my own oasis, there isn’t a major city in the world that can replace the value of that.
Check out my video below, where I discuss this in detail!
What’s So Great About “Rich White Privilege”? The TRUTH
There are limitless forms of privilege. How shallow does it mean our society must be that we have decided wealth and race are the two most important factors in determining one’s privilege? Watch the video below for more.
The Ways Birth Control Can Ruin Your Life
- Weight gain
- Death
- Changes the type of man you are attracted to, Attraction to less masculine, lower testosterone males
- Loss of sex drive
- Infertility, delayed, decreased fertility.
- Loss of your natural cycle
- Increased likelihood for emotional problems, STDs, and damaging relationships
These are just 7 of the countless known side effects of birth control. The narrative has it all wrong. There is nothing liberating about a pill that messes up a woman’s body so that she can be more easily used as a sex object for men without inconveniencing them. If someone came up to you and offered you a pill with these side effects, I would hope you would tell them to get away from you. This is what women should do with birth control. The male birth control pill never took off because the men partaking in the test trials respected their bodies enough to say no. Now women should do the same.
In the video below I go into the above mentioned seven side effects as well as fallacies I see in the narrative surrounding birth control and the horrific impact it has had on the lives of western women.
Liberation (A Christian Short Film)
My husband made this short film in 2012 when he was merely 23 with a budget of only $600 for a Speed Christian Film Contest . It was written, shot, cast, and edited in a single week. He made it with the intent of illustrating the gospel. He truly knows how to get a job accomplished regardless of circumstances and limited resources. ( My husband is filmmaker David Kirk West, owner of Buck the System Productions) if you’d like to check out more of his work. )
This film shows that it is only through putting our trust in Christ that we can be saved. Regardless of one’s past, we are washed white as snow if we simply ask Jesus to save us. Once we are saved nothing we could ever do or not do can change that! It is merely trusting in what HE has done not of our own good works. This film follows one soldier who despite living an evil life, realized this truth before it was too late.
Free Ross Ulbricht: IQ, Morality, & Justice. (The Best Birthday Gift You Could Give Me)
The case of Ross Ulbricht and the prosecution that sent him to a double life sentence is a horrifying example of the correlation between morality, justice, IQ, and the government perversion of the very virtues responsible for benefiting society.
PETA un-ironically Compares “Anti Animal” language to Racism, Calls to end Colloquialisms
Remember the hilariously dumb “Animals are Innocent” video we all got a kick out of a few years back? Well, the belief first introduced by the fringe rambling people in this video, is now the OFFICIAL stance of PETA, one of the most notable animal rights groups in the world.
Welcome to My Channel (Kassie West Previously Kassie Dill)
This youtube channel is meant to be a space for those who love faith, family, and motherhood. We will be discussing societal ills as well as topics like the negative impact of feminism and statist policies on society. My primary goal with this channel is to give others the knowledge I wish I had known when I was younger to save them years of wasted time and pain. I’d love to connect with fellow homeschooling families as well as anyone who is like minded or interested in the mentioned topics. Looking forward to this new season and posting videos regularly again for the first time in almost a decade!
Leftist Sacraments, Abortion & True Anti-Woman Hypocrisy
That’s right. The “Pro-choice” “pro-woman” “anti rape-culture” left, is now advocating women be forced by law to touch male genitals if they work in the beauty industry doing bikini waxes. (We touch on some of the news articles covering the case of the salon being sued by Trans activist in the video below). While they may claim abortion is for those in desperate situations or victims of rape, in reality the most vocal feminists are striving to make society view abortion as a “rite of passage” and something to brag about.
Why We Don’t Vote and Don’t Feel Bad About it
My husband and I discuss why we didn’t vote yesterday, why we don’t feel bad about it (at all) and what we did instead. The belief that voting is some moral duty regardless of what you are asked to choose between is a fallacy we break down in detail.
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