Why Homesteading?

To most people Homesteading seems like a thing of the past. It was in fact how the Wild West got settled. People seeking a better life and new adventure left the East Coast or Europe and staked a claim to land in the West. For them this was a new chance for a better life and an opportunity for adventure like never before.

In a way it is the same for me as well. I was to Homestead to be able to build a healthier better life for my family. I want to give my family the opportunity to be strong and tough. I want to be able to embrace organic and natural living without paying the prices Sprouts or Whole Foods requires.

It all started with me as a little child. I was raised in the homeschool community. We all dreamed of owning land and being farmers. I used to play with my friends cows and chickens. We would find worlds of new adventures beneath trees and on top of hay bales. My parents were grooming me to run a homestead. I learned to sew, bake, knit, tat, make candles, build fires, carve spoons, shoot bows and arrows, fish, and garden.

I was so in love with olden times and everything in the wilderness. You should see the collection of VHS movies I have; most of them revolve around the West or Olden times. I used to dream of building a homestead community with all my friends.  I planned it out and spent hours dreaming it to reality.

But like everyone else those precious days of being who you were raised to be vainish. No longer was John Wayne the sexiest man every created but Ryan Sheckler. I went from a Badass country man to Pussy-ass Skater boy. (Excuse my language). In that time I rejected it all. Stopped camping, going outdoors, hated homeschooling, and everything about my past. I wish I could undo those years. I didn't realize it but Satan was pulling me away from my God Sized Dream!

Praise God he didn't win!

Overtime I realized country boys were still Gods gift to women and the outdoors were my healing from depression. I embarked on this new road of being fit and found essential oils. I started a garden and learned everything natural. I met a man who grew up in the woods who also has a soul made for the outdoors. He favorite pass time is hardwork and especially chopping down trees. Together over the passed year and a half I have revealed my dreams to him and together we have ignited them into our dreams.

We want a huge plot of land in Texas. We want a big house with a wrap around porch. I want tons of windows and a huge kitchen. He wants to start training horses again and have all kinds of animals. I want an herb garden and he wants to farm the land. We want our own cattle and dairy cows. I want to knit, sew, cook, garden, work, and run my business all day. He wants to farm, build, weld, train horses, and be outside working hard. We also want to have tons of kids! We want to homeschool those kids and raise them to love the Lord their God!

So why Homesteading you ask, when its so expensive to get started and seems so out of this world!!! Because God has put a calling on our hearts for it! I want it so bad I can barely stand to wait. But every moment Daniel and I spend working all day every day we know that it is to bring our dreams to fulfillment.