Life Experience

Finding Joy in Homemade Traditions and Simple Tasks

Christina is fascinated by goats, chickens, and donkeys—and, well… just about anything that hints at a simpler way of living. In the Englischer world, simple doesn’t usually mean milking goats or cleaning stalls, not that she has cleaned stalls, but she has milked goats. It doesn’t mean simmering homemade potato soup when the store-bought kind is faster, or stitching a quilt when it’s far easier to buy one ready-made.

But Christina knows—because she’s done those things—that there is a quiet satisfaction in tasting soup you made yourself, and a special kind of joy in watching a quilt come together, one patient piece at a time. For her, living simply isn’t about doing everything the hard way. It’s about choosing what is meaningful, slowing down enough to notice it, and finding beauty in work done with care.

And although she lives in the Englischer world, Christina treasures the moments when she can slow down and practice simpler ways—pausing long enough to trade convenience for intention, and busyness for the quiet joy of living with care.

Here, she’ll share her current projects—and her imperfect, joyful attempts at putting a simpler life into practice.