TheColumbialife

Hello friends  I'm Mrs Columbia, and I'm new to being a wife, mother, and trying to be a homesteader. I want to share my story so I can look back over the years at all that's changed and we have accomplished.   The house needed a lot of work and still does. We turned the master bathroom into a storage space. We have accumulated alot of things we don't need but keep anyway (we are working on that but that's another story for another time) nothing in the bathroom was working right and it was a mess.  We have a few storage areas, the addition that's what we call the porch that my husband enclosed it's not finished or heated. It's a little smaller than half the house. We use the two car garage upstairs for storage, and the bottom is my husband's tools. We park the trucks outside. Now you're asking your self's why we need so much storage space. Well I had everything from before we got married and he had all his father's idem because he passed....

Hello friends  I'm Mrs Columbia, and I'm new to being a wife, mother, and trying to be a homesteader. I want to share my story so I can look back over the years at all that's changed and we have accomplished.  A bit about us. In 2020, We lived in an apartment for a while and had our firstborn a couple months after our baby was born. we didn't want to raise a child in a cheap, smokey apartment. Then we were living with my mother inlaw in a double wide trailer on 2 ish acres. We got married in 2021, and in 2023, we had our second baby.  Our first summer here in 2020, we had a little garden. I didn't know anything about taking care of a home or the property and didn't think gardening was anything more than putting seeds in the ground, pulling weeds, and getting the fresh foods when they were done. But boy, was that not the case.  In our second summer 2021, we made the garden larger, and I planted more seed. I was still learning about gardening. I thought that putti...