New Beginings

This is us, just over a month ago.  We had lived in this three bedroom townhouse for a little over 6 years.  We brought home two of our babies to here, I probably rearranged the house at least 15 times in an effort to make it 'feel new' and we made great friends with our neighbours. Well, not all the neighbours, we didn't become best buds with the drug dealer across the street and didn't really socialise with the ice addict who would roam the street at any given time. Needless to say, we were very ready and happy to be moving on but also thankful for some of the great memories we were taking with us.  Just to give you a bit of background- Kristian and I have been talking and dreaming about owning lots of land and living the farm life for many years now.  The ideal goal would be to have a fully self sufficient property. So with that in mind we were always looking.  We would look at rentals with more land, or land to buy, or houses and land to buy but a culmination of things just meant it never quite happened or felt right.  That is, until we found our current block.  At the risk of making it sound easy, things sort of just fell into place and before we knew it we owned 30 acres with a half 'liveable' shed, rainwater tank and a dam, oh, and electricity which we will later change to solar. So that kind of brings you up to current day, where we have decided to jump all in and live there permanently so we can really put in all the work it needs.  I will home school our 4 children so they can spend a few hours a day doing school work and the rest outdoors with us, learning the farm way.  We are definitely pushing ourselves to learn more and create the lifestyle we have always wanted and we are beyond excited.  We'd love you to follow along so you can be a part of this journey with us.  I really wanted to document as much of this journey as possible so our kids and us can look back and see how far we've come.  You'll see the good, the bad, and lets face it- the ugly. I mean we don't even have a bathroom yet people!  At the moment our current project is putting in a couple of bedrooms for the kids and setting it up so its a functional living space for the 6 of us.  I'll leave you with an early image of the shed when we first purchased it and before we started making any adjustments to it or filling it with all our stuff. 
Stay tuned, 
Love Eliza.

PS- I promise I won't start growing my underarm hair anytime soon!