In the beginning there was nothing...

When she moved from Chicago to Cincinnati about 19 years ago, she couldn't believe how small a city could be. Then a few years later, when she married Bret and he moved her to Hebron, KY, she remembered thinking, 'What do you mean, the IGA closes at 10pm?? What if it is 11 and you are hungry?' They eventually made their way back to Cincinnati, where they spent our last 8 years in a small Island of Cincinnati called St Bernard. And that takes us to today... the hills of KY, where they moved onto 115ish acres of land with nothing but their themselves, our dogs, and a small trailer.

Introductions later, but basically she had 5 kids. Two boys who were older and moved on their own still living in Cincinnati, and three girls ranging from 8-14 who have moved with her to the hills of KY to learn a new way of life. And her KY loving husband, who has been trying to get them back to KY anyway, since the day they had moved to Cincinnati.

They had just spent our first week there. And the pain that our kids (and herself maybe a little bit) were expecting, hadn't really seemed to come to fruition. Adjustments happened pretty quickly, and as she sat there getting ready to head back to Cincinnati with the kids to tie up some loose ends, she was a little surprised to look back on their last week and see how well we are all handling our new life.

For starters, they were without water, stove, heat or tv. Their internet usage is being monitored to see how many GB they used. Without cable they would have to pay per GB and since her husband would work at home now, he was the one who got to eat up most of the GB for now. So almost no internet for her and the girls.

How could they manage without all of this, you ask, but of course mostly how can they survive without internet!! A family whose kids were Facebooking and Vining and Netflixing and Googling 8-10 hours a day before this week. A family who peed in toilets and took long lavish bubble baths. A family who watched tv all day when they weren't on the computer, and fought over who was on Netflix because only two people could use it at a time. A husband and two of the kids who couldn't sleep without the tv playing. A mother who HATES being cold.

Stick around and find out.