07/30/2026
I tucked these words away from Little Farmhouse Mama quite some time ago because they captured something I couldn’t quite put into words myself. Today, they feel like the perfect tribute.
Yesterday we lost our snuggle turkey. Mr. BeepBeep was old. This East Texas heat has been relentless, and if I’m honest, I think his season earth-side was simply complete.
It’s funny how the animals that arrive with one purpose somehow become pets instead. They quietly change your heart in ways you never knew needed changing.
So, I’m sharing these words—not as my own, but because they’ve never felt more true.
Quoted from Little Farmhouse Mama-
I wasn’t prepared for this part of homesteading.
No one really talks about it.
Not in the starter guides. Not in the feed store. Not on the sunny Instagram reels.
The part where you pour your heart into something— into someone—
and lose them anyway.
The chick you helped hatch.
The goat you stayed up with all night.
The duckling that followed your kids around the yard.
The quiet moments when you whisper “come on, baby” and they still slip away.
I didn’t expect how heavy it would hit.
I didn’t realize how quickly a little life could become part of your every day.
How deeply you could grieve something so small.
And still-we do it again.
We mend the fence.
We clean the stall.
We gather eggs with a lump in our throat.
Because this is part of the life we chose.
A life full of sunrises and heartbreak.
Of muddy boots and miracles.
Of losing, and loving, and doing it all again.
No, it never gets easier.
You just learn to keep going.
To hold the hard alongside the beautiful.
To let your heart break open and still believe in new life.
That’s the farm life.
That’s the cost of raising anything worth loving.
