We bought it when we still lived in Brisbane. While we loved working and living in Brisbane (it suited us in our twenties) We asked ourselves, what did we want for our future? What did we want for our children? We wanted to be closer to our parents for all of the obvious reasons. Being close with my Nana, I naturally wanted my own children to grow up near their grandparents. We wanted our children to have the freedom that we experienced in our own childhoods. So, years before we were married or had children we bought acreage with beautiful views over rolling green hills, about 40 minutes away from both mine and my husbands parents.
We started making scrapbooks of ideas, planning house designs and listing trees we wanted to plant in our orchard.
But after my son was born and we finally moved to the area, renting not far from our land. I realised that things might not turn out how I had dreamed it. I was lonely and at home with a five month old baby. We were planning for another child. I was in the car six days out of seven driving to see family and friends. I knew then, that I did not want to be alone on a farm from six in the morning until six at night. At that time in our life, my vision of my husband pottering about a little hobby farm, with our families popping in for home baked cakes and pots of tea was not going to be.
It took me a year to convince my husband to sell. This was not the right time and this was not the right place.
A few years ago when I started on (again) about this dream to my family, they all said that we shouldn't have sold. But I knew then, as I do now, it wasn't right for us. It was a slopping block; we could never have built the type of house that we wanted to or set up our hobby farm as we had envisioned it. We could never have maintained it with such little children and me being alone all day. I have never regretted selling it. Not even now. It was a step we had to take. All leading us to where we are suppose to be.
I am hopeful, not discouraged. When the time is right, we will find ourselves exactly where we are suppose to be.
