“Sometimes when you’re in a dark place, you think you’ve been buried, but you’ve actually been planted.”

-Christine Caine

It’s been quiet here on the blog for a bit – not for lack of things happening, but because life piled everything up at once for me. Between juggling some health challenges, celebrating my twins’ fifth birthday (how are they five already?!), and the goats’ breeding season coming upon us…the days have been full to the brim.

But even in the whirlwind, there has been joy and love and friendship. It has been a little crazy and homesteading doesn’t pause for life’s hiccups, but maybe that’s the beauty of it. The kids are learning from life itself – patience, care, gentleness, and how even chaos is okay when it’s given to God. They are learning to trust God in uncertainty, patience, grace, resilience, contentment, adaptability, responsibility, teamwork, problem-solving, and empathy.

My heart just wants to explode when my kids pray for God to help me feel better or when my son holds my hand or rubs my back and says he loves me. The compassion they have already at five years old is amazing. And I am already feeling better. I have started a treatment protocol for my Alpha Gal syndrome, Mast Cell Activation Syndrome, and Histamine Intolerance. I am on a very restrictive diet during treatment which has been challenging but I am figuring it out.

So even if the days still feel a little wild and the to-do list keeps growing (it never stops!), I am learning to trust that roots are forming beneath the surface. Life on the homestead has a way of reminding me that even messy soil can hold the promise of new life. God doesn’t waste a single season, not even the ones that feel overrun and untended. Chaos doesn’t cancel growth; sometimes it’s the compost He uses to bring something beautiful to life.

So, while my posts may not have been coming as often, I will keep showing up and trusting that He’s still working in the soil of my days. I hope that you will stick around; I plan to start introducing some home Apothecary type posts for you as well as other topics such as making butter and cheese, wooden utensil care, and more. Please let me know in the comments if there are any specific topics you would like to hear about!