This blog post feels a little vulnerable to share. Maybe because we’re in a season of life where so much is changing. A season where a chapter that was such a big part of our lives has come to an end. I don’t have all the words for how that feels yet. But I am grateful for where we are in life right now, and I wanted to share that. We closed our family home. It still feels like a strange sentence to write. For us, running a family home was never just a task. It was our life.

Now that we knew we would eventually be moving to a much larger house, and that this house came with a fairly large garden, I realized that my childhood dream was going to come true. Namely, living a more natural, village-like lifestyle. About two years ago, I had already started sowing, caring for, and harvesting some vegetables, fruits, and herbs. Now I could expand this lifestyle even further. In our new home, we will eventually be investing in one or more greenhouses/cold