Back to Basics Life Quest

Our family's quest to get back to the basics of living stem partly from my experiences of being raised in a small community and also from our desire to live with more awareness towards the needs of our family. We want to live in a community that has a sense of how to take care of one another. Moving all around this country we have learned many things about how this societal structure works and how it doesn't work. We as Americans have learned well how to take care of ourselves. Ourselves, ourselves, ourselves.  Need I say more.  Our first experience of this realization was after the birth of our first child. With both of our parents living on opposite sides of the country we realized the amount of responsibility to raise our child laid on our shoulders alone. Having been the first of our friends to get married and have children we also learned that single people usually don't want to hang out or help out people with small children (be it fear or lack of knowledge of what to do). We found ourselves more alone than ever. OK , I thought, I can do this. I can be a stay-home mom, housewife, and house keeper AND be successful at it. Well, needless to say, months later I found myself very depressed and wanting a part time job just to be able to get out and socialize. Talking only to a baby for months is just not the same as adult conversation. The pressure of doing all of this alone was not as fun of a challenge as I first thought. Then we became pregnant with our second child. I was happy at the thought of not being my first child's constant playmate but I think the reaction from my husband was more like panic. For him the realization was thinking of how he was going to support us all .    .    .   More to come .  .  .