Welcome

Welcome

This is a blog about my journey, my chase of Horse Dreams.

You might wonder “When did my Horse Dreams begin?” One answer might be, when I was a little girl since I was horse crazy from as long as I can remember. But that is not the whole answer to this question.

Another answer could be when my youngest daughter was little since her third word was horse (just behind mommy and daddy). But that is only part of the answer. She was only being a normal little girl in love with horses.

It all really began in the summer of 2004. I was attending a church that decided to start an equine ministry. The book Hope Rising by Kim Meeder had been read and passed on to a group of us to read. It is a fantastic book about a ranch that rescues abused and neglected horses and these horses are then used to minister and heal abused and neglected children. I actually had the opportunity to meet Kim and realized just how much horses had meant to me. I had been born to city parents in the heart of the Bluegrass. My dad did his best had sent me to horse camp three different summers where I learned to ride English and jump. I loved it. My mom took me as often as she could to a stable 30+ minutes from our home where you could rent a horse for an hour. There I had “my” horse, George. He was the one place I felt safe in a crazy life. He and I would run, jump or just sit and talk. Even after 20 years when I had a hard day and a tough time going to sleep I would picture myself back on that farm, riding George. Somehow my troubles couldn’t follow me to that place.

While I was reading this book and working with a wonderful group to begin our own equine ministry my girls were busy too. They had read all the books on horses they could find. (I now own enough horse story books to open a library.) They also had more horse toys and posters than their rooms could hold. All the while the girls befriended a lady that lives two blocks away and owns two horses. She helped fan the flames of their Horse Dreams.

Not but a few months later I had finally found someone that agreed to give the girls and I lessons. (This was no small task. No one in the horse world wanted to work with two young girls and a mother that did not already have horse training.) This lady owns a small stable, was a 4-H leader and helped us find our two angels in horsehair (sooner than we had anticipated).
We now board our two boys at her stable, I am now the 4-H leader and she and I are chasing our Horse Dreams of starting our own equine ministry. (The group from my church just couldn’t ever catch flight. Something always seemed to get in the way.) A (the stable owner) and I are heading to Kim Meeder’s ranch next month to attend a clinic that we hope will help us get through some hurdles we are facing and hopefully our ministry will flourish.

My hope for this blog is to chronicle the adventures that I have as a 4-H leader, mother of two horse crazy daughters, the beginnings of a yet to be named ministry and my family’s desire to own our own farm with our boys.