A new link

I’ve added a new link. It’s for Path to Freedom. I read about their urban homestead (a self-sustaining home in the city) in Mother Earth News Magazine and now have concluded that slowly transforming our home into a homestead, or something close to it, is the perfect goal for me to aspire to! It combines the life I yearn for, in my depths, with the life I now live, offering me so much to work toward. And after all what is life without work? Ask King Soloman! So I hope you’ll check them out and glean something good.

I feel like I’ve been slowly and unknowingly drawn to the homestead lifestyle for several years now, we home school, we do home haircutting, and all three of our children were born at home, with a midwife.  Also, I’ve enjoyed using cloth diapers since Miss Aveline was in them, my sweet husband erected a clothesline for me in the backyard last Summer.  Then there’s my sincere affection for Laura Ingalls Wilder’s books, also I had a great garden at my previous home including an abundant luffa harvest (though all of my gardening efforts in my new yard failed miserably last Summer), then there’s the knitting and sewing that I enjoy, the homemade lip balm given as Christmas presents in 06 and 07, and the loquat jam I made last Spring from our lovely loquat harvest. So now, hopefully, with the stock of info and inspiration offered by the Dervaes Family, we can continue on toward our dreams for this life and land of ours! I am beyond thrilled that my husband is just as excited about this endeavor as I am!