Little Farmhouse Mama

05/07/2026

‘I can’t believe you eat animals you raise.’

The truth is, raising them is exactly why we don’t take any of it for granted.

You spend months caring for them. Feeding them before yourself some days. Checking on them in bad weather. Worrying when something feels off. Learning that feeding your family actually comes with responsibility.

This life changes the way you look at food.

It makes you slower with it.
More grateful for it.
More aware of everything that goes into it.

There’s no disconnect out here.

You understand the work.
The sacrifice.
The care behind every meal on the table.

And I think that’s why so many homesteaders feel deeply connected to this way of life.

Because when you raise your own food, you don’t just consume it.

You respect it.

05/06/2026

I’m trying to give my kids the kind of summer we had in the 90s.

The kind where you stayed outside so long your hair smelled like sunscreen and fresh cut grass.

Where bikes got dropped in the driveway without a second thought and screen doors slammed all day long.

The kind of summer where boredom wasn’t an emergency.

You figured something out.

You ran through sprinklers.
Caught lightning bugs.
Stayed outside until the sky turned pink and somebody yelled your name from the porch.

Nobody planned every second.

Nobody hovered over every moment.

And somehow those ordinary summers became the childhood memories we still talk about decades later.

That’s the kind of summer I want for my kids.

Dirty feet.
Sunburned noses.
Long days outside that feel endless when you’re little.

Not because I think the past was perfect.

But because I think there was something really good about a childhood that wasn’t rushed, scheduled, and lived through a screen.

And maybe that’s what so many of us are trying to find our way back to.

05/05/2026

05/04/2026

No, because what do you mean Owala came out with a cow print bottle?

I am obsessed.

05/03/2026

They had it right.