Why I Started Making Handmade Soap for My Family I still remember the moment I realized something had to change. After bath time, I was applying yet another doctor recommended lotion to cracked and bleeding skin. I tried to be gentle even though I knew it stung. We were well into the second bottle of the third product we had been told would help, and nothing was improving. I had already been… Read More

Some moments arrive quietly, without any sense of how much they will stay with you. This week it was the three of us tucked together on the living room couch, my husband on one side, our daughter between us, all cozy after a long day. What started as a simple conversation about life after high school turned into something softer. She shared a little of what she was feeling. We listened and… Read More

If winter feels a little chaotic, you’re not alone. These gentle rhythms can help you find connection and intention in the middle of a busy season.

There’s something about the turn of the year that feels like a quiet invitation not to rush, not to reinvent everything overnight, but simply to reset. To breathe. To look around and notice what’s waking up. After a quieter season, Meadow Lake Homestead is beginning to stir again. The stillness of the past months gave us room to reflect, to listen, and to consider what truly matters as we step into this… Read More

There’s something about winter that invites reflection, the quiet, the stillness, the way everything rests beneath the surface while new life prepares to grow. This year, that quiet has given me space to look at Meadow Lake Homestead with fresh eyes and ask an important question: Who are we becoming? Over the past few years, our little homestead has shifted and stretched in ways I never expected. We’ve grown through seasons of… Read More