- We told String Bean she could "name" our new home; we spend alot of time reading the Mitchell series (Five for Victory, Canadian Summer and Friendly Gables) by Hilda van Stockum (we've been through the series 2 or 3 times since we got them all Spring 2008) and the kids have been wanting to name a house.
- String Bean LOVES Beatrix Potter and she called her first farm, Hilltop.
- Our new home sits on top of the hill, overlooking the house across from us (with the lake behind .... what a view!).
- We WANT to live the more self-sufficient lifestyle of a farming family.
- Our county is considered a "rural county" and we even got our mortgage through a USDept of Agriculture rural development loan.
- But most importantly, because we can!
We hope to develop this new home, over the years, into a true patch of self-sufficiency and self-sacrifice; a home where we nurture creativity while nurturing our spiritual and academic lives. We want to make Hilltop Farm into a family oasis -- a place the kids and grandkids will come home to in order to get away from the fast-paced, fast-talking, fast-living life of urban America.
Does that make sense?
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Total. Total sense. It's what we are dreaming of too.
ReplyDeleteI can't wait to follow your new adventures at Hilltop!
ReplyDeleteI though Beatrix Potter had to be in there somewhere :). How lovely that you can now settle in to a home that you plan to stay in.
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