Realizing that her family wasn't prepared for the next localized disaster, much less their own personal disaster like a job loss, Jane Baldwin began, in earnest, to find those ways to help better prepare her family to be ready for what life throws at them. Between teaching her boys reading, writing and the art of suburban survival, learning the importance of preserving whole, nourishing foods for her family and working her way through the list of homesteading skills she needs to master, you'll find her blogging at Mom with a PREP and spending way too much time pinning like mad, so she pleads that you ignore the chocolate fingerprints on her keyboard and the pile of (mostly) clean laundry at the foot of her bed.