Wanna-be country girl stuck with limits....the City limits

I have been dreaming for a long time now of a home on some land in the country to live a more natural life style, where life is simple and easy going.... I have some amazing people in my life that whether they know it or not have had a huge impact on my desire for this type of life. I look up to them and find myself wishing I had the guts to just drop the crazy and live this way right this second. To be a better person to our environment and live a more simple life. I am fully aware that this life style doesn't mean everything is easy but I have been feeling "lost in the hustle" lately and very unsatisfied with life because we have been so busy constantly having something to do or somewhere to be. I would much rather live a life that is a little less fast paced and surrounded by love and learning spending time at home. I spend a lot of one on one time with my babies which I would not give up for anything but I want them to learn to "live off the land" and loosen the grasp our generation has on technology.... not to an extreme but our world is littered with such unhealthy habits that I have a natural instinct to protect them from it. I know I know practice what you preach! but I am getting there....I sometimes feel like I may be failing at being a great mom because I'm not cooking at home on a regular basis, I spend way to much time on my phone/ipad/computer... we are rarely home during the summer and its a constant catch up game when it comes to house hold chores. I know life must go on and I am honestly not complaining about it but sometimes I wish I wasn't so exhausted from life that I had the desire to keep up on those 98093209 loads of laundry haha I know now what my parents meant when they said I cant wait for you to have children :) it is something I completely understand now. Growing up we lived the constantly on the go lifestyle my parents were amazing to us as kids and raised us so well that I am constantly feeling like I have to thank them for something!

Lately I think I have been missing a huge chunk of my heart and it is because I want a huge chunk or maybe 5-10 acres of land to build a home on that has a garden, chickens, maybe even a few cows....for those of you I grew up with YES I just said cows! haha

My parents did dabble in the gardening world for a while and we had awesome fresh canned veggies and some of my most favorite memories are going out to the valley to tend to the garden...now for me that meant eating all the green beans and snap peas while my parents weeded and watered and harvested what was left after us kids had gone through the garden haha but those are the best memories, some that I would love for my kiddos to have.

How cool would it be to have a huge garden like this! yes lots of work but think of the yummy goodness that would come out of it! Letting the kids go out and pick the beans of the stock or pull the carrots out of the ground? I think its cool so I am sure the kids would LOVE it! The therapy to get lost in a place like this would be so amazing! Not to mention the health benefits from eating fresh food.

I want chickens....have you ever gone a length of time eating fresh eggs and then tried to eat a store bought egg! YUCK. Fresh eggs not only come in awesome colors but they taste so so so much better! My dream is to have a large enough place to let them free range and coop up at night and someday I will have it! I just wish I could get a few in my back yard now...three is allowed and I don't see why not! We don't see eye to eye in our home though :) someday ill win the battle!

 

 

There is just something so peaceful about open spaces! Fields and forest as far as you can see....I relax just thinking about having tea on the deck in the morning or sitting it he dark listening to the night. No street lights to block your view of the stars and no road noise to drown out the frogs and crickets.                                                      

                          

Now I do realize life is not always perfect and the main problem most of us have is we are to busy thinking we don't have the life we wanted to really enjoy the life we live. But I also strongly believe that if you don't make yourself happy most often you will be forgotten because the only person who can truly make what you want happen is you. Fight for what you want and don't give up on the dreams you have because one day god will lead you to the dreams you may not even know you have yet! Life doesn't always turn out the way you want it to but it always turns out the way it is supposed too.

 

until next time my friends