farm life life is good to say anything less would be a cruel understatement... Amy Smith ·March 21, 2024 #### But Everything in life is about Balance. The Learning Curve We have all seen those silly memes about finding the person you can be your most authentic self with — the person you can be your weird, annoying, ugly-crying, overly sensitive self with. I always kind of thought those memes were BS. I was single for a very long time before I met Nick and I had no interest in going on another boring date. Nick is the guy that will see me when I'm really sad and dance me around the living room and keep trying until he has me giggling away with a little less tightness in my chest. Nick is the guy that is just there without being asked when things get really hard. Nick is the guy that helped me to dream again at all. Working together allowed us to get to know each other on a different wavelength. Things slowly turned away from friendship. It took me a long time to communicate correctly. I spent a lot of time assuming that he would get bored with me, or annoyed by my illness — but he didn't. He just kept finding ways to make me smile and over time he wore me down and won me over. Both of our families welcomed us with open arms. I knew about an hour into our visit to my family's farm in Lacona that Nick was apart of the family. So, when we started talking about actually making Leafy Dreams happen, although we are not married and I had been on a medical leave of absence for 6 months or so at the time — because it was Nick, I didn't hesitate. I would walk to the end of the world with this man. So why am I giving you all of this insight into our personal lives? Balance. Two stubborn people, both of whom have a tendency to think they are right. We are able to enjoy so many of our days locked inside our garden — being with the plants, growing together, laughing and just enjoying our time while we work. That it almost seems shameful that we aren't able to go through all of our worst days without fighting. But we are also human. All of that being said, the last couple weeks have been yet another new normal for us. Nick started his "Summer Job" inspecting and quoting roof replacements, and I have taken almost all of the farm responsibilities on on the days that he is out. Finding the balance of responsibilities at home, both working pretty non-stop — there are days that we fight about who should be doing the dishes, or laundry, or because one of us said something in a teasing manner and the other wasn't at all amused. These are the times we fight — when our stressors don't align. To me, as long as we remember that it's us against the world and never us against each other, there is nothing we can't do and no problem we can't solve. I would spend my life in a tent moving place to place if I had to, if it meant I got to spend my life with Nick. With him and with Leafy, I don't need anything else. Life is about balance, love is about balance. Pretty much everything can find a resolution in balance. A Amy Smith Leafy Dreams Iowa ← Previous #stayleafy All Posts Next → When work life and Balance get thrown off the roof..
