Welcome

Good Morning! I am new to this whole blog thing so please bare with me. First I will tell you a little bit about my self. I am a mother of three beautiful kids, and I have accidentally begun a homestead. I love to read, hang out with my kids, garden, and cook. I have been married three years now and we have been through a lot. How do you become an accidental homesteader? RIGHT? I ask my self that every single day. Well let me tell you. We were renting a 3 bedroom 2 bathroom house. We lived there for almost 3 years. For the first two years I started having some serious migraines that lead to memory loss. My Neurologist said it was from tension migraines........ So MRI , and test after test and medication after medication I wasn't getting any better.One day my already disabled husband blacked out in the shower and went though our bathroom wall. Yes went through as in busted a huge hole in the wall. Ambulance came, ER visit we were told they didn't know what caused it, so they labeled it as viral. When we got home we noticed a horrid smell emanating from the whole in the wall. We started looking but couldn't see anything. We started talking and we new that before we moved in the roof had a really bad leak that was repaired. So we got a test from home-depot and the results where toxic Black mold. Yup fun stuff. We started looking for a rent house right then, called land lady and showed her that along with all of the other issues with the house she hadn't fixed. She basically told us if we didn't like it to move out. So we kept looking. We live in a military town so decent rent houses are hard to find. Summer heat started hitting, and we live in Central Texas so it gets HOT. So for the first time this year we turned on the air conditioning. BAD idea. We all were so sick we couldn't even swallow. I had to send my kids away and we bought an RV. YUP a 1982 22' RV; no stove, no oven.... but we were and are determined to make it work. We had invested in some land a little while back so we moved onto it and ran our own water, and electric. (That's a post for another day) SO here I am on 6 acres and now I have learned how to cook over an open fire, BBQ pit, I line dry all of our laundry (at least I am no longer hand-washing)I have acquired a small flock of egg laying chickens, guineas, 1 duck we chose, 2 ducks that adopted us, a rescued kitten, and a chihuahua. We have decided we like this route so we are going to keep going and we are inviting you along for the trip. I also have a small garden that died due to a mass amount of grasshoppers this year so we are prepping for spring of next year. I plant only NON GMO, open pollinated, heirloom seeds. So keep tuned for my mistakes, lessons learned, and success stories. I hope to learn how to make soap, cheese, bee keeping, and so much more.