The Start to Country Life

I feel like there are two very different versions of our life now.   I started this blog in one of Europe’s hippest cities.  Now less than a year later, I feel like I’m supposed to be driving a truck and playing Garth Brooks in the Western US where we just arrived the other day.  Despite these two very different lives, I know one thing for sure:

Home is the place where you can return at the end of the day and know you’re being the best that you can.  It’s the place where you can let go of everything else in the world.  Home is the only true place where you get to be you.  No one judges or tells you it’s not good enough.

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  1. I bought this shirt in Berlin at H&M.  We didn’t know we’d be moving to the country then.
  2. These vanilla cupcakes are super easy and yummy.  We were craving something sweet, and our cupboards were bare.  These baking cups from Denver are perrrfect.
  3. I started listening to The River Wife on an audiobook when I pulled out of Denver.
  4. Our 36 square foot kitchen in Berlin was featured on Decor8 while we were on the road.  What a treat!
  5. We’re going to have the entire neighborhood over for dinner every week.  There’ll be three of us.
  6. These etsy pictures would be a dream.
  7. When the grocery store and bakery were a few blocks away in Germany, we could grab anything any time.  Now we’re eating simpler meals with rare trips to the store.  
  8. Our days have been filled vacuuming mouse poop and spider eggs from the house and breaking to visit the little airport and start working.  I do not remember much about mouse-proofing food and clothes; I do not want to be reminded the bad way.
  9. I think the only animals I saw around Denver were house cats and prairie dogs.  
  10. These tips on living more frugally seem so timely these days.
  11. If we had a reason to have baby food jars in our house, I would save them to make something like this.
  12. I found a horseshoe behind the house today.  The luck – I pass that to all of you.