Mrs. Grubb's Urban Homestead

Without much fanfare, this is the inaugral entry of my blog, Mrs. Grubb's Urban Homestead.

There is a small, magical moment in my household, right after the children do their afternoon chores and right before I pick up the responsibilities of dinner preparation. Today that time is about twenty minutes, I hope. I may have less time if my 23 month old son doesn't keep his socks on. Maybe I can create a blog in that bit of time.

Ooop! The clock is ticking. . . I am a stay-at-home, homeschooling mother living in the outer edges of Boston, Massachusetts, humbly serving God, my dear husband, and my four children. In addition to preparing for our gloriously white New England Christmas, we're also preparing for the arrival of our fifth child. Perhaps between Christmas and New Years? Certainly I won't make my due date of January 19.

We recently listened to "Little House on the Prairie" on audiobook in our homeschool. I loved these books as a child, and I'm thrilled that my daughters, ages 7 and 6 are enjoying them too. This time I viewed them from an adult's perspective. I've gained a new admiration for Caroline Ingalls. From these accounts, she rarely complained, even when facing death, but she worked hard and served her husband and family well.

I wondered, when listening, how well I would fare out in the Kansas prairie. I don't have the survival skills the Ingalls family had. But I hope I could follow Caroline's example of diligence, cheerfulness and strength. My little urban homestead is so different from her prairie home. I live in a first floor apartment of a tall, skinny, three-story house with a postage stamp of a yard and is surrounded by a dense neighborhood. Like Caroline Ingalls, I wish to live simply, faithfully, and face trials with courage. No, I don't face Indians or malaria, and I wouldn't know the first thing about skinning a jackrabbit for dinner, but I am beginning to understand that happiness and peace comes from within, regardless of our setting or circumstances.

I welcome positive and encouraging responses to anything that I post. Thank you for reading.

posted by Kathy Grubb @ 1:49 PM