A week of juggling the many different roles I play & honestly, this is simply a gratitude rant. Some of my girlfriends may have to catch my complaints when I'm tired or have a mini case of the Monday’s but all-in-all I'm really happy to have a full life with all things I love.
I am five years deep into our goat milk soap line on the farm and many of you have watched it all evolve, been there alongside us from the very beginning. When I started drinking raw milk back in 2018, I didn't even know about goat milk soap. Now, here we are with a product line made from the animals we tend to, care for and and a small apothecary growing of organic homegrown herbs.
I get to forge relationships when I outsource ingredients I need locally. Then I fill in the rest with only all-natural and organic ingredients I trust. It’s a feeling on my end and I hope it emits back to you when it’s in your hands. I guess that is what keeps it all going.
There is only so much time given to make it all happen when raising babies is my number one role day in and day out but, it’s one I love to watch grow. It’s one I practice the patience in progress and plug in a little somethin’ nearly every single day. It’s every single encounter I have where something I have made has served someone in some way big or small that fuels me.
I get to watch and observe my littles all day long, go milk the goats, tend to the animals, go make our food, connect with others to fill farm and skincare orders, then I go to sleep, wake up and do it all over again. And none of this would go down without Zack, my other half, grounding me when my mind makes up mean stories, helping make time for what I need, and for seeing through this little dream of ours that never seems to stand still for even a moment.
Grateful to the part of me that chipped away a long time ago in making a life I needn't escape from back. Think back when all I had to think about was making rent and keeping up on a social life. Grateful of my upbringing for some grit and tenacity in forging ahead when challenges arise. Thankful for my family, my babies, who showed me another way I wanted to go about life and that is free falling into a woman’s natural form of the feminine… to do it all with as much ease and joy as possible. By no means does it take being a Mom to do so but for this one, it did. It does and I work at it every single day.
Let’s not deny how messy this all looks in real time but it’s a mess I want, a mess I choose. Thank you to my local community for supporting me and my family’s vision all these years. Thank you now to my ever-growing community out there as Etsy slowly but surely is allowing our products to reach near and far. So very happy to be right here but don't think I won’t keep asking for a whole lot more.
Gratitude rant, complete.
I suggest you go do the same.
Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.
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