A New Beginning (And an Introduction to Locust Hill Farm)

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Will 2025 be the year I finally stick to blogging consistently? Probably not... But after agonizing what topic I want to blog about and what platform to blog on, I came to the conclusion that I just need to start and not care about the details. I've actually been blogging on and off for over 16 years. When I was in high school I started a blog on Tumblr then through college I had a blog on a different site. Then when I started my career I started a personal finance blog. When we bought our farm I briefly blogged about the farm.

Each time I eventually faded away from the blog because our life has been a crazy whirlwind the past 10 years. I've always enjoyed writing but I've been paralyzed by what "theme" to stick to because I'm involved and am interested in so many topics - motherhood, banking, agriculture, real estate, personal finance, self improvement. I felt the need to stick to one topic to blog about, which seemed impossible. Then I would get the crazy idea of setting up multiple blogs to blog about multiple topics - also crazy. So now I've settled on the idea of just starting and seeing where it takes me. I'm betting not many people will read this anyway so since it's my own creative outlet I'll blog about what I feel like at the time.

I've named the blog (for now) Locust Hill Farm. I told you I was indecisive so maybe I'll change the name to something else later. But the name was fitting because we live on a farm that we named Locust Hill Farm and as the kids get older and I can become more involved in farm life I imagine a large portion of blog content will be farm related.

I'm not sure where this introductory post is going so I'll go into how we ended up here on Locust Hill Farm. The journey started 8 years ago in 2017 when Mike and I got married at the young age of 23. The journey to buying our farm involved moving 5 times over the course of the 8 years, job changes, starting two businesses, and having two children.

We had been casually looking for a piece of land for a couple of years when in 2022 a farm came up for sale on the road I grew up on. We ended up purchasing the farm and began building our house on the property a year later. One year after construction began, we moved into the house to begin our farm life era. 

This new "farm life era" is going to entail a "slowing down" and not rushing toward the next thing, which is what I've been doing for the last 30 years. Cheers to slowing down and enjoying all the little things 2025 may bring. 

Hot chocolate after playing in the snow.


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