Nurturing a “People First” Homestead — Homesteading Family

People First, Always

One of the biggest takeaways from this conversation was RuthAnn’s simple but powerful priority list:

1. Emotional needs of the family
2. Nutritional needs
3. Housekeeping

That order matters.

She shared how, in seasons when her kids were little, emotional needs took most of her energy. Now that many of her children are older, those emotional needs are often met shoulder-to-shoulder while milking cows, folding laundry, or feeding animals. Same heart, different season.

And here’s the thing, she reminded me that some seasons last weeks, some last years, and some last decades. When we stop fighting the season we’re in and start honoring it, peace shows up in ways we didn’t expect.