Hi, I’m Becky!
I’m glad you stopped by my blog. Let me tell you a bit about who I am and what this blog is about. Humble Hearth and Home is a blog born out of the experiences my husband and I have lived through and the lessons we have learned. As I share our story, you will learn about constructing a yurt, living in a tiny house, and cooking with a wood cook stove among other things.
My husband, Jonathan, and I were born and raised in the south hailing from Alabama and Georgia, respectively. We met during graduate school in North Carolina and after a year of marriage, moved to southeast China for mission work. After four years of teaching English at a university, ministering to college students, and volunteering at an orphanage, we moved back to the states.
Upon our return, we found ourselves calling Oklahoma home. After time in an apartment, a rental house, and then buying our first home we renovated ourselves, we finally realized our dream to move out on a piece of land to live more naturally and traditionally. We bought a little over eight acres, but then found ourselves in need of a dwelling. Thinking back to our time in China, knowing we did not want a mortgage, and had little money to spend, a yurt became the perfect idea! And thus, our humble hearth and home journey began.
We have been married for almost 14 years and in that time, we have travelled to new places, worked several jobs, converted to Catholicism, and grown in our love for one another. What we have not done has become parents. We have suffered one miscarriage, an ectopic pregnancy. We have pursued two adoptions that did not come to fruition. The pain of infertility is deep, but we trust in God as we repeatedly shout the mantra, “Thy will be done.”
Follow me here as I share about all our adventures, highs, lows, and lessons learned as we find joy in living frugally in our tiny home, beside the wood cook stove, desiring to be fruitful in more ways than one.