Well, welcome back to the show. On today's episode of the podcast, I am speaking to you from a place of total gratitude.

I dive into my gardening journey and I share quite a bit of where I'm at in the garden right now,

where I'm in the middle of harvest season, the many abundant foods that I'm harvesting straight from my kitchen garden,

and I share kind of how I got to this place and the things I've learned along the way.

I also talk about my dream of wanting to be self-sufficient and the core values that I have around freedom and trust and wanting to be able to take care of my family on my own.

How do we align those kinds of dreams with living in this very structured system that is our daily society?

It's kind of a tricky thing to align, so I talk a little bit about that and also some future stuff going on in our family, having to decide where to go to school and how we want to plan our lives over the next couple of years.

I think today's episode is a really good one.

Hi, hi, hi, my darlings, my friends, hi, welcome back to the show.

I am sitting here just feeling so many feelings.

I could cry right now. That is how my heart just feels so soft and tender and open and I have so much to share. I don't even know where to begin.

How about I share a little bit about how I ended up in this moment sitting here?

I've had a whole day of harvesting vegetables and flowers, which is my favorite thing to do.

Is it officially September? Oh my god, it is, right? It's officially September.

Oh, as you're listening to this, it's officially September, which feels so crazy and here in Sweden now where we are, it's still kind of warm, but you can definitely sense this bite in the air.

It's very crisp, it's almost almost like one of those early spring mornings, you know, but it's false. It has a different beginning of fall has a different feeling.

We've definitely crossed the bridge or crossed the line of I, yeah, fall has begun.

It's just true. It's just true. I guess end of August really does mark the end of summer. I don't want it to be, but I'm also really excited about fall.

I love this season. At the same time fall in Sweden. It's like it gets darker and darker and darker and eventually it gets almost a barely dark over here.

So you always you step into fall with a bit of trepidation kind of, at least that's what I used to when I back when I lived here before I moved to a rubah or before I moved away.

And this time around, you know, I haven't experienced a full fall in Sweden in 15 years. It's a very long time.

And I'm feeling really, really excited, you know, it's like at the time of year now where we can like candles. It's kind of beginning, but it's still warm enough outside and I still have a whole garden full of vegetables.

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