When I first started thinking about how I wanted to live my life and what I wanted my future to look like, I felt lost. Lost in the everyday, mundane repetition. Getting up, going to work, coming home, making dinner and watching TV until bedtime. I felt stuck in a cycle that I had created for myself. I felt tired, unmotivated and on “exist” mode. I have never been one for being particularly great at anything and one day something inside me just clicked.
I wasn’t meant to do just one thing; I was meant to do everything. At first this sounds overwhelming but I was liberated in my thinking when I stopped trying to be the best at one particular thing. It all started when my husband and I got chickens. I knew that I had wanted to try my hand at farming, or homesteading but I didn’t think we had the space or the knowledge to do it. I was so wrong! On a whim, we got 6 chickens and along the way we lost 3 and gained 9 more. We now are successfully raising 13 chickens with 2 dogs and making our way to homesteading one step at a time. It became my goal to be as self-sustainable as we could possibly afford to be while still having my 9-5 job.
In doing so I have learned how to bake, knit, make my own jams, lotions, candles and a whole list of things that I want to share with you. If you have ever felt lost in your life, like you have had no purpose, then you have come to a place of understanding. This blog is here to inspire your creative journey on how to liberate yourself from feeling alone in the process. For anyone who is truly interested, I believe that our purpose is to remind people how to truly live. Not by going on vacations, taking selfies and talking about what Kim K’s butt looks like today. But by relearning old techniques that were once common knowledge, and passing it down for generations to come.
Welcome to The Green Mountain Gal website where I believe that “a jack of all trades is a master of none but oftentimes better than a master of one.” I hope that I can inspire you to learn and create so that you are living liberated as well.