• Family

    Two

    Happy 2nd Birthday, Sweet Ember! How quickly the last two years have passed and how quickly you are growing and learning every single day! I am so grateful for your sweet kisses and your bear hugs and I love how you love the goats and chickens and turkeys and cats and dogs…

  • Family - Journal Entries

    63

    Today, in celebration of what would have been my mom’s 63rd Birthday, I’ve written something a little different than I normally write in this space. It’s raw and vulnerable and honest and I hope you’ll give it a read despite it having absolutely nothing to do with homesteading. xoxo, M…

  • Family

    Getting Hitched!

    Today is The Day, my Friends! The day my Partner officially becomes my Wife!  I truly couldn’t be more excited or more blessed! But before you call me crazy…No, I’m really not online today (#1 Ain’t nobody got time for that! 😉 and #2 Yes, we’re having an “unplugged” ceremony)!…

  • Create - DIY - Family

    Farm Wedding Prep!

    This post could also easily be called, “Now I Understand Why People Elope!” 😉 Two short months ago, when we finally decided to get married and set our date, we didn’t think much of the quick turnaround. Instead, we thought: We are doers. We are facilitators. We are badass DIYers.…

  • Family

    Making it “Official”

    Nine years ago today, Kim and I called it “official” and intentionally began our lives together. The past nine years have included two daughters, four homes, and this crazy, ever-growing journey of ours from a life built in the city to one growing in the country with more dreams for…

  • Family - Grow

    Family Garden Day

    Sundays have become our Family Garden Day, when Kim, Sprout and I are joined by my oldest daughter and/or my little brother for a few morning hours of dedicated garden time. It started out as a plea for help due to our sheer state of Overwhelm as a direct result…

  • Family

    #lovewins

    What an epic day yesterday was! It started out like any other day… Hot tea, a stroll through the garden, “Good mornings” to the goats and chickens, a text to my oldest daughter, the harvest of the first pea (!)… Blue skies and coyote calls. Nice enough. Peaceful, really. But…