We are so glad that you have joined us here. We are excited to see what God has in store for our family on this journey in our lives. Let me get you up-to-date on the happenings in our family.
Our family started our Homeschooling Adventure/Roller coaster in February 2006 when our eldest daughter was in 1st grade. Why. you ask? That is a future blog post and a very interesting story!
When our eldest daughter was about 10, and the other children were, 6, 5, and 3 we realized that there were some serious issues going on in our family. My kids were all OUT OF CONTROL! After prayer, paperwork, doctors and some really bad medication we realized that we had to change our diets to change our behaviors! So the search for real food begins.
After about a year of research and changing the diets of our family and a few friends as well, we realized that in order to make sure we were getting real food and fairly inexpensively, we needed to raise it. Gardening was already being done, but on a small scale. So we started raising a large garden, several laying hens and then meat rabbits.
Fast forward another year and we have 21 chickens and 3 meat rabbits with about 14 kits. We are up and moving about 3 hours away in search of some inexpensive farmland to buy for our new homestead. We rent a nice property about 2 cleared acres and a lot of woods. We continue our homesteading there with about 10 chickens and 3 rabbits. We had a great year and a half there homeschooling and exploring the area. Then we realized that this was only a temporary place for our family! God did some AMAZING things in our family and we are now in Indiana.
Currently we are living in the basement of my in-laws until the hubby finds a job and we can find a rental near his job. Around here that could be an hour in any direction from our current location.
Now here we are homeschooling, gardening, cooking up some great food for the whole family & helping the in-laws with their hens and chicks until God moves us into our own place to pick up where we left off in Virginia.
We hope this gives you a little glimpse into our homesteading, homeschooling journey. We are excited to see what comes next for our family and hope you will join us for the ride, laughter, tears, accomplishments, and blessings.
If you asked me 6 years ago if I would ever consider living on a homestead and raising my own food, I would have laughed so hard and said NO WAY! It is amazing how our perspective has changed. We went from a family just pushing through life with no real ambitions other than to keep our kids in a close relationship with Jesus & get them to graduation in one piece, to working on building a homestead that they can inherit and live on if they choose to when they are grown. We hope this will be a place where they can find real food that is fresh and grown with love! Then they too can share this with others in need!!!
Blessings!
Denielle
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