Pleased to meet you.

Thank you for visiting us at Kieler Bee Homestead.  We, like a lot of people these days, were coming to the realization that the rat race was just not for us. We were living paycheck to paycheck working well over 40 hours a week each just to sleep in a house that was way too big for us anyway.  We became overwhelmed at the upkeep of a house that was empty most of the time and we were way too tired from working to do it ourselves. But because the economy is in a recession we didn't have the money to hire others to do the work we had to muster up all the strength we could to keep up. Why two young adults with only a dog decided to buy a 4 bedroom, 3 bath house just to sleep in is beyond me. But hey, you live and learn.(I learned that owning a big beautiful house was not important, sure it was nice to hear from family and friends "Wow, what a pretty house!" ....those words did not pan out to happiness, security, or feeling fulfilled.)
...So more of my story... I worked for a popular southern restaurant and was working toward owning my own store, which is plan A.  When gearing up for the big hairy interview process God answered a HUGE prayer... we got pregnant!!!! While over the moon excited, I was also nervous about having a new baby, being in a new city with a multi million dollar store in my hands. Well God likes to throw curve balls, because while working literally half my life to own a store, what I felt to be my true mission in life, the biggest way to make an impact on those around me while being an entrepreneur... little did I know that being a full time mommy and homesteader was my true calling and owning my own restaurant didn't worked out. Which broke my heart, but looking back on the past few months with the Rugrat, I couldn't be happier.
So on to Plan B, The LumberJack and I had discussed, in a dream like world, what if...what if owning a store didn't work out, what then?  Well we had said we wanted to homestead, keep bees, garden, mill trees and build furniture and above all live simply.
So on a mission to do just that we sold nearly everything, our 2,500sqft house in suburbia included. 
We were now a quest to find a house with a little bit of land that we could live in immediately (we were living with LumberJack's parents while we looked-just so happened to be through the holidays...did I mention the Rugrat had just turned ONE the week we moved!=STRESS!)
After 4 months and 2 failed offers on other houses, we found one!!!  It needs some updating, I'm good with that, but we have a house, some land, a pond, GREAT neighbors, and a chance to live life that makes us happy.  

I hope that is what we are all on a quest to do, find what makes us happy, hold on to it, keep it, cherish it, keep doing it, whatever it is, find it!  

We sold this beautiful house is suburbia....

And bought a house with a HUGE pasture with a pond and a meat smoke house...this is the view of the house from the far side of the field. Our own little piece of the world.