Rural Aspirations

For some time now I’ve been considering life in a more rural setting. My husband has been all for the idea, but fear of leaving the city has been holding me back. Well, I’m finally ready to face that fear. I decided that the only way to find out for sure is to just do it. So, with a great deal of excitement (and no small amount of apprehension on my part) we’ve made a plan to leave the big city and buy a few acres out in the country. This blog is about our journey.

To achieve our goal requires paring down expenses and saving as much money as we can. In my search for ways to be more frugal I stumbled upon the concept of Simple Living and was hooked. It connects everything we hold dear, from our desire to live more closely to nature, to achieving financial health and security, and having more time for what’s important in life. Not to mention living sustainably and treading lightly on the Earth.

I am The Wife, a former research scientist now living in domestic bliss as a stay-at-home mum while doing a wee bit of consulting on the side. Husband is an engineer. Daughter (born ‘02) and Son (born ‘04) are free spirits whose education takes the form of unschooling.

I’ve been crazy about horses since I was a small child. As a university student I rode regularly and aspired to the discipline of Classical Dressage. Moving to an acreage will allow me to finally fulfill my lifelong dream of owning a horse. I currently enjoy knitting, reading, blogging, and homemaking. I planted my first vegetable garden this year and am trying to Eat Local as much as I can. I also volunteer with La Leche League, an international women’s health organization that provides information and peer support to women who wish to breastfeed.