Gonna Get There Someday

All right. After ghosting around on pretty much every homemaking site and blog on the web for a ridiculous amount of time now, I figure I'm past due for my own little corner of musings and ramblings. Voila - a blog!

As my About Me will tell you, I live in urban Boston with my husband and our hedgehog, Franklin. (Yes, hedgehog - Todd adores them and has collected stuffed animal hedgehogs since birth, and he got me started; we brought Frankie home a little over a month ago and he is marvellous!! Forget every cliche about hedgies you think you know, as they're only prickly when they're scared, they're tiny, they are NOT rodents, incredibly smart, and extremely cuddly!) We live in a three-bedroom apartment with our two roommates, which sounds strange for a married couple, but it's a reality of being young and living in the city; to give you an idea, the rent on our apt is $2300 a month. Yep! Split four ways it's entirely manageable (Todd and I pay a little bit less than they do since we share a room), but living on our own just isn't an option right now. Oh well. We'll get there someday - hence the name of this blog!

I grew up on farms in Idaho and Montana, raising sheep and goats and riding horses bareback for hours in bare feet and shorts. In Montana we lived off the grid and used kerosene lamps and propane stove and fridge when the generator was broken, which was often. We didn't have plumbing the first year there - yay outhouses! We grew pumpkins and potatoes, slept by the wood stove in the winter because there'd be ice on the walls in our bedrooms, and went on logging expeditions with my dad, who was a self-employed logger at the time and sold cord wood for a living. We lived at the base of "The Mountain", which was actually made of many mountains filled with the kind of people who sit on their porches with shotguns and have huge packs of dogs and chickens and children running around, and so we were kind of the main hub before one headed up into the hills, and we lived closest to the road. As such, church on Sundays was usually held at our house, which was an all-day affair: the men would take turns preaching every week, and there'd be plenty of guitar-backed singing, and the kids would be expected to participate in the lesson just as much as the adults were. The rest of the day would be spent eating whatever was cooked on our large and complex firepit and, for us kids at least, playing and hiking and riding until well past nine or ten when everyone went home.

So as you can see, I'm no stranger to the homesteading lifestyle - and oh, do I MISS it!!!!!

Granted, my childhood memories exclude most of the hardship my parents endured, since children just accept whatever their lives are like as normal and keep on playing. I'm not saying I necessarily want to go back to exactly the same lifestyle, but I'm dying for a return to the same simplicity - Todd and I so badly want a little farm where our kids can learn to ride and hunt eggs and go exploring in a land without locked doors. As for me, I positively ache to stay home every morning I leave for work; my happiest days are my days off, when I can have time to make Todd's lunch for the day and bake our bread for next couple of weeks and cook a nice dinner for us and clean the house and go to the library and read and crochet. Aaaah. Again, gonna get there someday!!!!

So. I'm not exactly a homesteader right now (although I do plan to grow a teeny garden next spring on the porch that we have at our new apartment, which is glorious - an entire porch to ourselves!! We don't even share it with any other apts.), but my husband and I are headed that direction, and *so* excited about it. In the meantime, I do as much homemaking as I can after work or on my days off, and try to make the best of it.

Speaking of work, I have to run off and get ready for it (yes, I work on Sundays. I'm trying to change that, but it's not easy!). I'm excited about my little blog - I'll share more when I get the chance!

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