We live down a long dirt road in the rural Midwest. Most of our neighbors are Amish, and the closest grocery store, which is 15 miles away, is a Mennonite grocery store. This is what my adulthood has always looked like. We have a twenty minute drive to get anywhere, and no, there is no traffic. Although you do get stuck behind a tractor or horse and buggy sometimes.

My life didn’t always look like this, though. The first half of my life took place in Dallas, Texas. We left the city for some land when I was just about old enough to drive. It took some very serious getting used to, but I made it. I now live my life in a genuinely old fashioned manner with a level of simplicity that a lot of people couldn’t understand. I wasn’t born into it, but I was brought up in it. And now its where I’m bringing up my two sons(6 months and 2) alongside my husband. My children don’t know any different, and my husband doesn’t really either, but this has been a learning experience for me over the last 10 years.

The Lord has guided me to this way of living over the course of my whole life. There is so much purposefulness to this lifestyle, even though some people may not see it. I believe passing on the things God teaches us to anyone that will listen, and that this is one of our main purposes in life. So although I don’t know it all, I do know what He has taught me and I want to pass that on.

In our home, we drink raw milk, eat fresh eggs, bake our own bread, buy from the butcher, hunt the seasons, thrift our belongings, mend our own clothes, grow our own food, school our children, read ingredient labels, and thank The Lord daily. Its a beautiful life full of love in it’s purest form. If your life looks similar to that, then come along down this dirt road, so we can share some more.

Yours truly,

Grace