There are many “should’s” in homesteading.
When we first started dreaming about land, gardens and animals, skimming through seed catalogs, scouring you tube and instagram… It was very much like drinking from a firehose.
There was an abundance of voices, advice and opinions.
Before Redeeming the Roberts was a blog name or even an idea, it was a prayer.
A prayer for a marriage.
A prayer for our family.
A prayer that God could take the pieces of our broken childhoods and families, and make something beautiful.
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Years ago I had a blog called Redeeming the Roberts. Life got busy, priorities shifted, and eventually the website disappeared. But the dream never did.
It stuck around. As much as my days filled up with babies and cows, with bread and birthdays, homeschool lessons and letters, I still had this tug to tell our story. The one that God, our Abba, has been writing all these years. I’ve been waiting for time, for patience to figure it all out and learn all the things that come with rebuilding a website, but the truth is, that will never come. So I decided to start typing. In the middle of making breakfast and feeding my sourdough starter. taking breaks to nurse Brodie our current baby and the absolute joy of our home. While Hosanna plays play dough at the kitchen table and I soak it all in.
These are the days.
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