Author: Shannon

I am wife to Stewart, mama of six, homeschooler, messy cook, and avid fermenter. This is where I tell our story... of building a sustainable off-grid homestead... of raising this growing family of ours... of the beauty and the hard and the joy in all of it.
A Day of Winter

A Day of Winter

When the onslaught of summer heat finally dissipates, the children often remark on the “smell of snow” when they go outside. It seems our area of Texas has two seasons – “hot”  and “warm with a chance of cold”. Anything below hot is when they start waiting for snow. These boys of ours love to…