If you think we started out in the country or as multi-generational farmers, think again. Try an MK raised in Madrid, and a city girl born and bred in the South Carolina suburbs.
Life changed dramatically when we decided to pack up our growing family and move to a hundred year old home in a town with a post office and one stop light.
But honestly, that’s where life really began.
Over the years we’ve heard a lot of excuses.
“You can homeschool because you were a teacher.”
“Since you live so far from a grocery store it’s that much easier to be motivated to grow your own food.”
“It’s easy for you to have so many kids because you have so many kids to take care of the rest of your so many kids.” (We never did quite get the logic of that one.)
There will *always* be an excuse for everything! Life will always be easier for someone else. The cliche “The grass is greener on the other side” couldn’t be more accurate. Because as soon as you get to the other side you’ll realize how green your own grass was.
Tradeoffs
Sometimes people want the Instagram of homesteading. The romantic sunsets, the 10 seconds to build a masterpiece, and the toasty feeling inside when watching someone else do it. Homesteading, farming, and *this lifestyle*, isn’t for everyone. But it is for some.
It is for those some that we home to inspire, kindle, and encourage that if MK’s and city girls can do it, then, by all means, you can too.
In our latest YouTube video, we share how we got started, what it took to get us farming, and why we do what we do. Because honestly, the romance of it all can fade in a heartbeat if we don’t have the right “why.”
What is our why?
Check it out in our most recent YouTube video.
Blessings,
The Reeds
