Simply beautiful our Story
My husband and I bought 10 beautiful acres in Enumclaw Wa, April 2017. We wanted to be able to share it with our family and friends. Little did we know that we would soon have another little family member that we would welcome in May of 2019. She is our bonus daughter. I am not her tummy mommy but really her Nana. When she was just a little over 2 we got the finalized court papers stating we were her parents in the eyes of the court system. Her bio father (our son) and her bio mother (tummy mommy) were just young and not ready to be full time parents. It was a family decision for many reasons that we become her legal parents. The day I got the phone call from our lawyer and that email with the documents I cried so much. It was such a relief and I knew my prayers had been heard.
We started to transition in our household as her bio mom moved out and our son came to terms that he did not give his father and I a burden but a beautiful little gift. Our little Farm baby has only ever known our home as her home. She has only spent one night away from our home since she was born and that was as a new born when she stayed with her bio mother’s parents overnight. Other then that she never been away from either myself or her papa… she still calls him papa, but if you ask her who her dad is she looks at you and will say that’s my Papa! For me when she was 2-1/2 she decided on her own I was her mommy and no longer Nana. I just let it go because it was her decision.
when she was 2 we put her into a farm school program so she could socialize with other children, she absolutely thrived it was second nature to her and she was already extremely smart but seeing her always happy to be at school with her friends and teachers, no matter the weather, here in the beautiful PNW was refreshing. She is truly a PNW child she thrives in the RAIN! It's actually one of her favorite weathers. That got me thinking more on how we … or I could share our amazing property.
Let me, paint a little picture of our property for you. We have a park like setting in the front of the house and side yard and then we have the area we have made for the horses and mini goat and mini pig and chickens and hopefully some day a few mini highlander cows…..(Farm Area) then there is the forest part of the property that is ever changing with the rhythm of the seasons . There are trees that have withstood the ages and then there are trees that have not but became wonderful nurse stumps/log for thriving trees. When I walk on our little hidden trails I feel like I am on an adventure up in the mountains yet I just stepped into my backyard. In the summer the cool forest just steps away offers cool shade and the inviting smell of cedar and fresh berries. In the cooler wet months the trees can offer shelter from the rains.
It's truly beautiful. I can tell you we did not buy because of a big beautiful house or horse/farm property, because it actually was not either of those things it was simply the property. We all fell in love with it. The man that owned beforehand was 98 years old and I was told he was a teacher, he lived to be over 100. It just fit that this amazing land and property be used for a nature school to enrich children's lives in our community and surrounding areas.
Simply put it was meant to be.
