We Bought a Farm!

Zach and I have exciting news to share with all of you.

Today we closed on a 14 acre, 100 year old farm. I didn't want to let on, from fear that I would jinx us, but today it was official! It's a traditional yellow farmhouse with a giant two story, red barn with lots and lots of sunny alfalfa pasture. We have so many plans and ideas, ways to make it our own,... it's a good kind of overwhelming. I will be keeping everyone updated as the move progresses.

This new change and adventure will open up so many opportunities in our lives and I can't wait to share it all with you. I feel like Laura Ingalls when she moved from the big woods to the prairie. I will miss the place of my childhood terribly, the woods, the ponds. In so many ways every tree and woodland creature has touched me in some way and made me the person I am today. The hardest part of all, is that so much of my father is here. He passed away a year ago, and there are memories of him etched in every corner of our home and property.

But I can take those memories with me, I have my camera of course, which helps me to document my life, and my collections of acorns from my favorite oak trees, seed pods, special stones, and a shard of bark from my thinking tree. These are tiny fragments from a place so special that I am blessed to have lived here at all.

But life is about change, something that I more often than not, have a hard time with. As I get older I find that change helps us to grow, and become something we've only dreamed we could be. My whole life, I lived in the woods and wished I had a farm. Sometimes getting what we want can be beautifully petrifying. But I am brave, and I have the love of a man so encouraging and supportive, that I know we can't go wrong. The things that we've only dreamed of having and doing have just became possible and I am blessed, so very, very blessed.