Post by montanamom on Aug 6, 2010 19:25:29 GMT -5
Hey y'all! (No, I'm not from the South, but the rest of my family is...I'm the first generation not to be born in Texas .) My name's Darcy. I'm a wife and mother of 3 little 'uns. My hubby wants one more, I told him fine, when he could be pregnant. 
We left our lifetime home in the mountains or E. WA and moved to the mountains of Central MT this spring. We love it here and hope to work on/own our own ranch someday. For now, my husband is a trucker and gone all week long. We hate it, but it pays the bills.
Some of you here know me from my blog, www.darcysheartstirrings.blogspot.com
I was born in Seattle and lived in the area til I was 15. My parents started homeschooling us when I was in 1st grade. They were part of the homeschooling pioneers in that area. I still remember not being allowed to play outside until after noon because of the fear of neighbors asking questions about why we weren't in school. My dad was raised in the conservative Church of Christ, and it wasn't until I was around 13 that we found grace. The CoC is a very spiritually abusive, fundie church, who believe they are the only ones with The Truth and the only ones going to heaven. There was no grace, only legalism. My parents stayed in the church, trying to teach others there about who God really was until they gave up when I was 15. There are people who were life-long friends of theirs who still believe my family is "apostate" and going to hell (my grandpa is one of them).
Around the age of 14, my parents were introduced to Gothard and ATI. We started attending seminars and hanging out with ATI folks. I even taught a few Children's Institutes and was a Character First coach for a while. It was like we jumped out of one kind of legalism into another. We did enjoy the support of the homeschooling community that we received while doing the ATI thing. I'm sure you'll hear more of my story as we get to know each other.
We left Seattle and moved to the middle of the mountains in Northeastern WA when I was 15. We lived in a tent for the summer, then a couple of old trailers when it started snowing. we lived without electricity and running water for about a year while building our house. This had absolutely nothing to do with some sorta misplaced "living off the land is more spiritual" thing. It was just a dream we always had to live in the country. My siblings and I loved it. Yes, there were hard times, but we have more fond memories than anything. During that time, I met my husband and thus started the "rebellion" that led my family out of legalism. (You can read our love story on my blog.) I left home at 18, became a live-in nanny, and worked my way through 2 years of college. My husband, Sky, and I married when I was 20. Our relationship was instrumental to helping through the healing process. For the first time in my life someone loved me for who I was, not because of what I did. Sky's love showed me what God's love really looked like.
After struggling with infertility for a year-and-a-half, our daughter was conceived and born at home in 2006. Apparently, my infertility was cured, because my second daughter was born 11 months later. ;D Our son was born in Dec. of '09 and is now 8 months old. So my life is VERY full and very busy. We intend to homeschool because I believe that is what's best for my children. My younger daughter was just diagnosed with ASD, so this year, homeschooling will be supplemented by four days a week of special-ed preschool at the local school district. We're taking this a little at a time and evaluating her needs as they come up. I'm very excited for her.
I'm really into natural medicine, home-birthing, women's health, organic living, and healthy cooking. I'm a country girl at heart. We currently live in town but can't wait to we can get out in the boonies again. We miss our horses.
I'm a music/piano teacher who's been on a sabbatical. 
Music is one of my greatest passions.
I am very honest, opinionated, but happy to live-and-let-live, not conservative, love my hooker boots and short skirts, don't do dress codes, don't like rules, hate anything close to a religious structure, don't like schedules, am perfectly willing to say "I don't know", have a tendency to shake my fist at God (but I don't think He minds), love to laugh (which I haven't done enough of lately), am either wildly happy or downright furious, and very much in love with my husband and my kids (all of whom drive me crazy and make me occasionally want to jump off a cliff. 
Nice to meet you all.
We left our lifetime home in the mountains or E. WA and moved to the mountains of Central MT this spring. We love it here and hope to work on/own our own ranch someday. For now, my husband is a trucker and gone all week long. We hate it, but it pays the bills. Some of you here know me from my blog, www.darcysheartstirrings.blogspot.com
I was born in Seattle and lived in the area til I was 15. My parents started homeschooling us when I was in 1st grade. They were part of the homeschooling pioneers in that area. I still remember not being allowed to play outside until after noon because of the fear of neighbors asking questions about why we weren't in school. My dad was raised in the conservative Church of Christ, and it wasn't until I was around 13 that we found grace. The CoC is a very spiritually abusive, fundie church, who believe they are the only ones with The Truth and the only ones going to heaven. There was no grace, only legalism. My parents stayed in the church, trying to teach others there about who God really was until they gave up when I was 15. There are people who were life-long friends of theirs who still believe my family is "apostate" and going to hell (my grandpa is one of them).
Around the age of 14, my parents were introduced to Gothard and ATI. We started attending seminars and hanging out with ATI folks. I even taught a few Children's Institutes and was a Character First coach for a while. It was like we jumped out of one kind of legalism into another. We did enjoy the support of the homeschooling community that we received while doing the ATI thing. I'm sure you'll hear more of my story as we get to know each other.
We left Seattle and moved to the middle of the mountains in Northeastern WA when I was 15. We lived in a tent for the summer, then a couple of old trailers when it started snowing. we lived without electricity and running water for about a year while building our house. This had absolutely nothing to do with some sorta misplaced "living off the land is more spiritual" thing. It was just a dream we always had to live in the country. My siblings and I loved it. Yes, there were hard times, but we have more fond memories than anything. During that time, I met my husband and thus started the "rebellion" that led my family out of legalism. (You can read our love story on my blog.) I left home at 18, became a live-in nanny, and worked my way through 2 years of college. My husband, Sky, and I married when I was 20. Our relationship was instrumental to helping through the healing process. For the first time in my life someone loved me for who I was, not because of what I did. Sky's love showed me what God's love really looked like.
After struggling with infertility for a year-and-a-half, our daughter was conceived and born at home in 2006. Apparently, my infertility was cured, because my second daughter was born 11 months later. ;D Our son was born in Dec. of '09 and is now 8 months old. So my life is VERY full and very busy. We intend to homeschool because I believe that is what's best for my children. My younger daughter was just diagnosed with ASD, so this year, homeschooling will be supplemented by four days a week of special-ed preschool at the local school district. We're taking this a little at a time and evaluating her needs as they come up. I'm very excited for her.
I'm really into natural medicine, home-birthing, women's health, organic living, and healthy cooking. I'm a country girl at heart. We currently live in town but can't wait to we can get out in the boonies again. We miss our horses.
I'm a music/piano teacher who's been on a sabbatical. 
Music is one of my greatest passions. I am very honest, opinionated, but happy to live-and-let-live, not conservative, love my hooker boots and short skirts, don't do dress codes, don't like rules, hate anything close to a religious structure, don't like schedules, am perfectly willing to say "I don't know", have a tendency to shake my fist at God (but I don't think He minds), love to laugh (which I haven't done enough of lately), am either wildly happy or downright furious, and very much in love with my husband and my kids (all of whom drive me crazy and make me occasionally want to jump off a cliff
. 
Nice to meet you all.
