Hey there everyone! So you might be wondering what this is all about, so let me explain. Goose and I were sitting around making soaps yesterday, and she said that she thinks we should totally sell them! I told her many people already do that and likely wouldn't be interested, but that if she wanted to we could try selling some to local friends or family. She set to work on making labels for our soaps. It became the Poor Roosters Homestead. This name goes back many years ago when David and I were about to lose our first home to foreclosure after being laid off during the 2008 financial crisis. We created a lawn mowing and foreclosure clean out service. The name definitely is credit to David and his creativity in a play on our name, Pocock. Po-cock. Poor Rooster. :) It all comes back. So here we are, 12 years later, and trying to set our roots into our new home with our beautiful family. It begins here.
Born and raised in Florida, David, the girls and I and our two pups packed up and headed to Texas for work in 2015. We lived there for three years and it was the best decision we ever made. It helped us mentally, financially, romantically, physically. I adored Texas and would have loved to have stayed, but we decided that what was best for the kiddos was for them to not only get to see their extended family once a year. We talked it over with the girls, and they agreed. So we packed up our bags and moved to Georgia, where David's parents had moved right after we headed to Texas, in addition to his sister and her family who'd been here a few years already. It was hard to leave our Texas family, but we made the leap. After years of hopping from house to house, it was time to settle down. We rented a house in the town of Buford for a year, but decided it was time to find a home of our own. One with land. One where we could make it what we wanted. We spent months looking at houses. We tried for a few, but something always came up. We knew our situation was somewhat unique. I'm a stay at home mom, and was about to give birth to our sweet boy, Bird. David worked from home. We knew we wanted at least 2 acres, and needed both a devoted playroom as well as office. As we expanded our hunt outwards, we found that either nowhere with land had internet (needed for David's employment) or the school systems were all terrible. We were going to have to make some choices. We finally discussed making some sacrifices in order to find the right home, and that if the schools weren't good, I'd homeschool them. Fast forward to April 2019. I'd just had Bird the few weeks before, and we closed on our new home.
We ended up with 5.15 acres in central north Georgia. It had a lawn, a steep driveway, so many trees, a garden, a pool, and 3 acres of woods behind it that were ours! It had the sweetest woman for a neighbor! It was the absolute weirdest designed house I've ever seen and truly needed a map. It's what David referred to as the labyrinth. It has two living rooms, two kitchens, two laundry rooms, 6 bedrooms, 5 bathrooms, an enclosed garage and a full, mostly finished basement. It was weird, but was perfect for our family.
So for those of you who've stuck around this long, this blog is going to be a more in depth look into the renovation of our home to get it just right, our journey with transitioning to homeschooling, and our adventures as we embark on a slow uphill towards becoming homesteaders. Ya gotta start somewhere, right!? ;)
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