Tawny McVay || Bus + Homestead Life(@sincewewokeup) 인스타그램 상세 프로필 분석: 팔로워 777,489, 참여율 11.86%

Our story… • Hi my name is Tawny, and this is my home, a school bus named Oliver. • For five years I lived and traveled in this bus, and together we’ve been over quite a few roads, all the way from Alaska down to Mexico. • Between travels we had a home base in Montana, a small homestead we shared with family where we kept chickens and goats. • Last year we finally found a place that made us want to settle for good, so we packed up all those chickens and goats in a cargo van, and together with the bus we caravanned down to the Midwest, where we purchased ten acres of land in beautiful Missouri. • This valley is our dream, an abundant forest teeming with wildlife and plants and mushrooms, with a pond and streams flowing through it, and trees hundreds of years old. • There were a few existing structures, but the last year was one of solid work building the foundations of our new homestead, mostly from scratch. • First up were barns and fencing for all our animals, which was good because we had quite a few new faces join us along the way over the last year. • Then as spring arrived we turned our attention to building a greenhouse and garden, creating compost and water systems, and planting an orchard to supply as much of our own food as we possibly can. • We rounded out our first year by adding additional living space to Oliver in the form of a greenhouse style bathhouse with a tub and shower supplied by the natural spring, and an outdoor living area so we can continue to live outdoors as much as possible even though we aren’t traveling now. • We had a lot of amazing views out of these little bus windows during our travels, but its a different kind of joy now when I look out in the mornings and realize I, and Oliver, are finally home.

I’m a Gigi 🥹 • A month ago, I watched my daughter birth hers into the world and bring her home to our valley. The last few weeks have been among the happiest of my life - watching her become a mother, enjoying my own role as hers in this new way, holding my grandchild close as we walk the forest together and share our hopes for her future. • I have so many words for the wonder and joy of these last few weeks, but it’s quite possible these photos, taken when my baby put hers into my arms for the first time, convey it more eloquently than I’m able. I’m not sure I can say it better than my face does. • I am a Gigi friends 🥹

Spring has finally graced the valley again, and the first thing I did was sweep the dust from my little outdoor living space so I could install the @ninjakitchen Ninja Electric Grill and Smoker into our new outdoor kitchen! #NinjaPartner • We spend most of our time on this patio during the non-winter months, enjoying morning coffee and most of our downtime and meals here. Last year, I decided an outdoor cooking situation of some kind was in order to make summer dinners easier after those long and hot work days, but finding a solution that wasn’t too big for our space, tedious to use or a pain to clean proved difficult. • This grill ended up being our perfect solution. Small enough it doesn’t take up a huge amount of real estate on our small porch, and a breeze to use and clean up. We’ve used their blender and air fryer for years, so using a brand we know and trust was a huge bonus. • When you live in a tiny home, it’s important that every item taking up precious storage and living space packs a lot of functionality, and, if possible, multiple uses. I love that this one appliance has seven functions, including dehydrating and convection baking so I don’t have to heat the bus with the oven during the summer months. • Plus, the app connectivity means I can remotely monitor my meal while it cooks and be free to multitask, a huge luxury in a place like this where there’s always something that needs doing. • Check out the link in my bio to learn more about this small appliance that packs a big punch, and see my stories if you want the recipes from this simple but absolutely delicious meal we’ve been eating most nights around here since this grill came into our lives! #ninjawoodfire

Meet Violet, born when the first ones appeared just before the spring equinox. • She entered the world alongside two robust siblings, the twelfth of thirteen born over two days, not breathing and unable to stand, the puniest little kid I’ve ever seen - so small she slipped out between siblings and her mom didn’t noticed she’d just birthed another. A little work got her breathing, but it became clear she wasn’t going to be able to nurse next to her two very active and large siblings, and her mom was indifferent at best about this runty third child. • Normally I’d leave them together and come down every few hours to make sure she was feeding, hoping mama would eventually bond and take an interest, but naturally my goats decided to drop all their kids during the two day cold snap where temps plummeted to near zero, and I knew in my heart if I left this tiny weak girl with a mama uninterested in keeping her warm as she focused on the two strong kids, she wouldn’t make it the night. • And that is the very brief story of how I unexpectedly became a goat mom again and wound up with another kid in my bus and heart. After a week of love and some special care on a contracted tendon that gave her a funny little limp, she finally made it to the weight of a normal newborn and was able to start spending time playing with the other kids, including her brother and sister. The clip at around ten seconds is her at a week old next to the kids born the same day 🥹 • Today, at almost a month old, she’s a spunky little joy who splits her time between the pasture, the bus, and pretending she’s a mountain goat hunting morels in the forest. In time, like Yul, she’ll take her place in the herd. • And yes, this means little Violet is now a permanent fixture here, and Yul gains a sister - a little equinox girl to pal around with my beloved solstice man, bringing our herd from ten to eleven. Welcome to the Haven sweet girl 💕 #babygoats #homesteadlife #goatkids

I haven’t put together a proper tour video since Oliver’s wheels quit rolling, so this week I took time to film my tiny home on wheels to create a longer video now I’m on the Tube showing all the details quick walkthroughs like this one miss. • And I’m not going to lie - seeing this bus I’ve lived in for seven years fresh through the lens, as I shot all the angles and corners, actually made me tear up a little. I forget, in the day to day, just how much I adore this little skoolie in the woods, how grateful I am to call it home 🚌 #buslife #tinyhome #cabininthewoods

Don’t mind me and the ducks, just over here daydreaming about warm Spring days like these… • The goat kids are due to start arriving this week, I found the first wild onions and oyster mushrooms in the forest, and the strawberry and asparagus patches are coming to life beneath fruit trees covered in leaf buds. In other words, Spring is just around the corner, friends 🌸🍄‍🟫🍓🌱

My first video for the Tube was supposed to go live at three today, but due to technical errors (me, I am the technical error 😂), I woke to find it already published and in the world! • So, much earlier than anticipated, please join me for coffee in my little bus for my very first full-length video, where I reintroduce myself, talk about where I’ve been the last few years since stepping back from full-time social media, and preview what I’m creating for this new channel. • Link in bio ☺️

I started a YouTube. • I show a lot of my outer world on this page - the school bus l've called home for almost seven years, the travels it took me on for the first five, the piece of forest we finally settled in and the homestead we're building here. And I enjoy it, sharing these pieces of my life in hopes they bring joy or inspiration or simply a peaceful moment to your day. • But I'd like to share more of my inner world - my writing and day to day life, the pieces of it that don't fit neatly in a 90 second reel. It's been brewing for quite some time, this urge to allow space for more to be seen, and finally, I've consciously created it, in the form of a YouTube channel to bridge Since We Woke Up and my personal page, where a more detailed and complex story can unfold. • I'd originally planned a more formal introduction to this new channel, explaining the background and laying a foundation, but this is what came out instead, and honestly, nothing I can script will be a more accurate depiction than this visual representation of that inner and behind the scenes world, a glimpse at a more feral and raw and unfiltered side of myself, the one ready to come fully forward and show her teeth. • This page will still hold all the parts of my life that bring me joy, but if you'd like to meet the person behind the account more fully, you'll find her dancing in the woods and wearing her heart on her sleeve on my personal page here and the linked YouTube channel. • First video drops next week. I’ll meet you in the woods Wednesday at noon CST 🌿

On this week’s episode of finding joy in tiny things, we finally have a completed room in the tiny home! • Building this guest house has been a series of starts and stops as other work and life and setbacks came up through the summer and fall, but finally, we have a bathroom, and it’s as beautiful as I hoped it would be. • We loved our old concrete wet room style shower in the bus so much we decided to use the same medium again, this time in white. It has a hundred gallon tank that can be filled or directly hooked to our spring system and a Cuddy Lite @compocloset composting toilet to keep it stylishly off-grid. • This project is drawing to a close just in time, as spring approaches and the busyness of getting seeds in the ground and eagerly awaiting the arrival of the first goat kids begins - in a few short weeks, this place will be a flurry of activity! #tinyhome #bathroomgoals #homesteadlife

“It just goes around and around, and who wins? Not us. Not the districts. Always the Capitol. But I’m tired of being a piece in their Games.” • Seeds of division and hate bear ugly and sour fruit. I’m not interested in planting more. • Posting last year about horrors unfolding a world away, and now the last few weeks as alarm bells sound much closer to home, my feelings and message have remained the same - we can do better. I still believe this, especially now, as so many recognize the real issues in the world have nothing to do with the neighbors we’ve been conditioned to point fingers at and everything to do with the people giving us reasons to so we don’t pause to look at them more closely and ask why. • I see that change happening. See more and more people starting to wake up and look toward the real issues instead of the engineered ones the people at the top keep manufacturing, the false narratives they peddle to deepen divides while they hide what happens on islands and behind closed doors where wealth and power are hoarded and the next plan to make us hate each other is orchestrated. • The person also trying to raise their family in safety and worrying about how expensive groceries have become and wishing they had more time to read a book or try their hand at painting isn’t your enemy. I promise you. • Broken and outdated systems and institutions, and the people who build and operate and profit from and support them, are the real villain in this story, the one we are collectively writing in real time right now. The important question to ask yourself is what part do you want to play and be remembered for, when these current events become the history future generations learn? You get to choose your role, who you’re standing beside and behind and in front of. • Choose wisely friends. • And while you’re at it - look out for your neighbors, plant a garden, read books, create something with your own two hands, and don’t forget how beautiful this world around us is, even on the hard days. #knittinglove #readmore

This isn’t about politics. This is about humanity, and the parts of ourselves we sacrifice when we stop seeing ourselves in the face of another. We are all made of the same bones and dreams, the same heartbeats and hopes. • And that grief? It’s evidence your humanity remains friend. Feel it. Hold it. Let it inspire action. Believe the love that inspired it can change the world, and maybe, together, we will.

My inner world feels heavy tonight, a reflection of what I see mirrored in the hearts of those around me as we witness this one we share, where so many are struggling, where injustice and division are commonplace, where the balance of living our own lives within it feels both overwhelming and not enough all at once. • So tonight, I’m simply sharing this collection of what brings me joy. If your heart needs a moment of peace, a reminder of what is beautiful and pure and right in the world - may this reach you 💕