I have had quite a few health issues over the years, and our oldest son was born at 26-weeks gestation. I have Celiac Disease, but I didn’t know it for the first thirty years of my life. This led me to research and write about Health and Nutrition.

Our family ate according to The GAPS Diet for almost three years. It was SO healing for me! Back in 2010-2012, there weren’t many people blogging about GAPS. I started sharing the recipes I was creating & found a community that way.

I enjoy cooking and creating Recipes. You can find several of my recipe creations on this site. They’re mostly GAPS Diet-friendly, which means that they will work for people who eat Paleo, grain-free, and sometimes Whole 30.

We owned an almost 30-acre farm in OR, and now we own an 8-acre farm in VA. We’ve raised our own laying hens, meat chickens, ducks, turkeys, geese, pigs, beef cows, dairy cows, and bees over the years. You can find my Homesteading posts here.

We have adopted three out of six of our kids and we are in the process of adopting our sixth child. In addition, we’ve fostered eleven children. We have parented kids from hard places & I’ve written some posts about Adoption, Foster Care & Adoptive Parenting here.

We’ve been on three cross-country road trips and one time we spent a month in an RV, traveling through California. I haven’t written a lot about these trips YET, but I plan to add them to this page about Road Trips.

I LOVE God’s Word, and I want it in my head, my husband’s head, my kids’ heads, and in your family’s heads, too! I have been working on this super-fun Scripture Memory Project to share every song I can find that is word-for-word Scripture.

I’ve been homeschooling since our oldest (23 year-old son) was two (I was a little ambitious!). Over the years, I have learned SO much, and I love sharing the things I have learned with other moms. I currently lead a Homeschool Community in Lynchburg, Virginia, and I speak at a variety of Homeschool Conventions.