This Blessed Life at Rootsong Farm

Tuesday, January 19, 2016

The end to my blogging season

Dear readers,
The time has come. With mixed emotions, I've decided to close my blog after many (over 8!) years of fun and friendship forging. Thank you all for the support, encouragement and laughs along the way. One day I may open up my blog again. But my focus now will be my home, husband and our growing brood of young humans.

Life is full of magic and miracles that I don't want to miss! There are simply not enough hours in the day for blogging.

Love,
Aubrey

About Me

I met my husband at a party in San Francisco in 2004. We were big city club and party kids. Vegetarians who had never milked a cow and rarely left city limits. Now we are farmers in North Idaho, one of the least populated areas of the country. I'm no longer a goth clubbing radical feminist party girl. I'm a happily married farm wife, mother to eight children, living out in the incredibly beautiful countryside and thanking God for it every day. We're working hard at building up our new homestead, and growing deep our family's roots. We call our farm Rootsong.

My days are mostly filled with homeschooling, homekeeping, cow milking, cheesemaking, butchering things, canning things, caring for our farm animals, diaper washing, breastfeeding, laughing with my eight fantastic kids and homesteading with my best friend in the whole world, my husband. I have a passion for natural foods and natural birth, and living simply and joyfully. I am in the process of converting to Catholicism and am super excited about it.

A brief timeline:

I began this blog way back in early 2006. Husband and I lived on a postage stamp lot in the suburbs until the summer of 2011. We then packed up our family and moved to a 20 acre rental in the middle of nowhere north Idaho. I had never set foot in Idaho until stepping out of that moving truck. Nine months later, in April 2012, we were able to purchase our very own dream come true- a modest manufactured home on 10 acres of gorgeous rural land. We worked hard to make our fixer-upper livable, and moved in late June 2012. We've been working even harder, laughing and loving on this land ever since. I am in awe that I get to live this life.