5.17.2013

We bought the farm

This won't be the last time I post this photo. I know its obnoxious to see the same one. I hate photos of me, usually. But I love this photo of us. And so I stick with the good ones when I find them. Also, we took an arm cam photo of us yesterday at the new farm and we both looked so old and haggard! Much more youthful looking last summer I suppose. 

Yesterday. We closed. Today through this weekend we are moving home, humans, parasites, livestock, and farm. My mother is driving up with sandwiches and hopefully many forms of caffeine. We are running on fumes and we still have half a house, 8 cows, 2 pigs, 3 sheep, 2 goats, 2 cats, 2 dogs, 30 chickens and the honeybees and all the farm gear to move.

BUT we are elated. As we have found our forever home and it is ours. We have found the home where I want to give birth to our son and where I want to spend the rest of my years with Nick and where we will raise many animals and many vegetables and many children. It is beautiful and perfect. I love every inch of our new land.  Many photos to come next week. This weekend there will be few words and fewer photographs. This weekend there will be much buzzing and much anxiety and much happiness and hopefully many hours of sleeping in between.

Here we start on what is billed to be our last and final move.

54 comments:

  1. Congrats! A forever home is a GREAT place to be. :)

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  2. Congratulations!! I can feel your excitement! There is nothing better to me than the life of hard work on your own land and raising animals! Good luck moving forward!

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  3. Congratulations! Amazing news and a GREAT way to start a weekend! Wishing you all the best for an easier transition now that things are final!

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  4. So incredibly happy for you guys! Much luck in the move, and sending extra energy to get you over those times when you hit a wall. You motivate and inspire me!

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  5. this is just too great! i am so excited and happy for you two (almost 3!). congrats times a million!

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  6. Congrats! SO wonderful! This is such a great photo! xo

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  7. Woohoo- what wonderful news!!!Good luck with everything

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  8. Congratulations!!!

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  9. CONGRATULATIONS Kate and Nick!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Can't wait for new adventures and photos of your forever home, elated for you both! :)

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  10. WOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!! words can not expresssssssss

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  11. “The biggest adventure you can ever take is to live the life of your dreams.”
    ― Oprah Winfrey
    Bless you in your new home and all the excitement that is to come!!!

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  12. Congratulations, that is so amazing. You made my friday as well as yours I'm sure :)

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  13. Congratulations!!! Such exciting and wonderful news! Made me teary-eyed reading this post because I know how it feels to want that. Looking forward to seeing photos!!

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  14. BEST NEWS. And to hear it on your God Son's birthday!! I'm so glad your lucky stars aligned. Wish I was there to help tow boxes and animals with you.

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  15. Congratulations!!!!!!!!! SO happy for you all xCx

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  16. A sincere congrats to you - that's fantastic!!

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  17. Congratulations! happy for the two of you.

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  18. Congrats! I'm so happy for you guys :)

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  19. now i know i'm getting my period soon because this post very nearly made me CRY!
    SO happy for you both.

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  20. Watching your journey is so truly inspiring! Congratulations and good thoughts are sent your way! While I can only imagine that this time in your life is so tiring and overwhelming, just remember - you are in it! You are living the most exciting beginnings of the-rest-of-your-life. These are the times you'll recount time and time again in old age. Enjoy!

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  21. Congrats Kate! I am truly so happy for you and Nick!

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  22. Awesome! Congratulations!! My husband and I just recently bought our forever home in the country and it feels wonderful! I love y'alls story!

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  23. I've been following your story for a little while now and I just can't resist commenting - warm, heartfelt congratulations! Such an inspiring journey you're on.

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  24. Congratulations!!! Hope you have a smooth transition into your forever home!!

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  25. Congratulations!!! Amazing news! Wishing you a long and happy life in your forever home.

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  26. I am so thrilled to hear this! Best of luck with the move and can't wait to see photos of the new place :)

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  27. ahhhh! a million congratulations! it's such a strange feeling, to feel so much excitement for a complete stranger. but i adore ya, kate. i really do. i respect you and your words and the beautiful life you're living. it's everything i hope for myself one day. and it's such an inspiration to see you living it now. i'm wishing you the happiest of all weekends, full of sunshine and caffeine and oddly obedient animals.

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  28. Am looking forward to the future photos. Your journey is one I wished I had taken when I was your age. I didn't make it to my little farm until I was in my 50's but it's still a dream come true. What a wonderful place to raise your child.

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  29. So happy for you!!! Hope the move goes well and that you have many happy years at your forever home... Can't wait for more pictures... God Bless...

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  30. Congratulations Kate! I love following your journey, and this is an amazing and wonderful step. Good luck!!

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  31. Sending lots of love and every best wish for every success imaginable! Congratulations!

    Isn't HOME a lovely, nesty word?

    Good luck this weekend.

    xoxost

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  32. So glad the closing is over! what a relief. Can't wait to see all the pics of your home.

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  33. Aww, fantastic, amazing news! All the very best for the move, and we will all be anxiously awaiting your words and pics to see how you're all getting on. xx

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  34. many many many congratulations to you! i hope it is a home and farm filled with love, happiness, joy, and laughter (i know it will be).

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  35. I cried a little bit reading this. So happy for you both!! Good luck with the moving!

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  36. Congrats! This is oh so exciting and I cannot wait to read about your journey ahead! I am so ready to buy a home for ourselves as well, but we have a while until we do this. I feel your excitement so close in my heart!

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  37. Wonderful! Best of luck to you. I cannot imagine the task of moving a farm while pregnant. You're an inspiration!

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  38. Oh! So very excited for you two (soon-to-be-three)!!! Get it all done, rest up and enjoy the rest of your lives in your forever home! Can't wait to see how it all unfolds!

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  39. So incredibly exciting!!!!! Best wishes for amazing adventures for all three of you!

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  40. yay!!! congrats!!! waitin' to see the progress!!!

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  41. so happy for you! may you find so much love and happiness in your new home, and on your own land!

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  42. So happy and proud of you two - soon to be three!

    Can't wait to see and jump on this famous chore list-
    pond-dip and second pot of coffee notwithstanding!

    hugs and much love
    oxox

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  43. Congratulations. by the sounds of it you'll be settled soon :)

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  44. que linda aventura , te leo seguido, me encanta que ya esten en su nueva casa, los felicito, muchas....muchas felicidades.

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  45. Absolutely wonderful, I hope it all went well, as I am reading this after the weekend. Moving can be so stressful especially when there are animals and stock involved, but you have the wonderful knowledge that this is the last move!!

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  46. That is really wonderful news!

    I've been reading here for a while and finding inspiration in all your stories - the happy and the sad. Tho it won't be on such a grand scale, my husband and I are planning our return to New Zealand from 5 years living in the UK and I'll be swapping my desk job for creating and cultivating a small-holding for us. I can't imagine any of it will be easy but I'm willing to try. I grew up knowing where my food came from, we had chickens and goats and a massive vegetable garden and I want to carry that forward into my own future life.

    Can't wait to read more about your new home. Congratulations.

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  47. I am so happy for you and wish you many happy years in your new home. Looking forward to lots of photos!

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  48. Congratulations! Such wonderful news, I am so glad that you found your forever home!
    Can't wait to hear more about it, and see some pictures once the move is over and you have restored your energy a bit - take care!

    Fine

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