Our Story
How a hard season, a house that wasn't forever, and repeated rainbows became the beginning of Darbees Chasing Rainbows.
The forever home that wasn't
In 2023, we were trying to sell the house we thought would be our forever home.
On paper, it was 2,100 square feet — enough to sound spacious. In practice, it was designed for a retired couple, not a growing family. Two tiny bedrooms. A giant master suite. Not enough room for the life we were building. We had three children when we bought it. We soon had four.
Then, layer by layer, we started discovering what the house actually was.
What we found
We remedied what we could. But it kept going.
- —Hidden mold
- —Bad plumbing
- —Poor soil — hammerhead worms and invasive Asian jumping worms
- —Water entering a wall from an improperly installed gutter
- —Termites, because the builders hadn't sealed them out properly
- —Evidence the property had been used as a community dump decades earlier — we kept finding rusty saw blades and broken glass in the ground
- —Mildew smell outside from overcrowded landscaping, which brought a cockroach infestation
We fixed what we could. But making that house into what our family needed would have taken more money, time, and strength than we had. So we listed it.
Waiting in a tiny RV
We thought the house would sell quickly. It didn't.
For months, we lived in a small RV on the property while we waited. We kept praying. We kept asking the Lord what He was doing. We didn't know. The path forward wasn't clear at all.
The rainbows
Again and again, in moments of discouragement — when we talked about not knowing the Lord's will — we would see a rainbow.
Not once. Not twice. Over and over.
Those rainbows became a comfort to us. A reminder that God had not forgotten our family, even when the path forward was unclear. The rainbow is not decoration for us. It is part of our testimony.
Why "Darbees"
Darbee is our last name. The brand name "Darbees Chasing Rainbows" came directly from that season — a family name attached to a testimony. The "Darbees" part is simply who we are.
We are not chasing comfort, perfection, or a polished life. We are chasing the reminders of God's faithfulness in the middle of uncertainty. We are learning to build, learn, work, repent, repair, and hope as we go.
The RV is not the dream
We have been full-time RVing ever since. We didn't set out to become forever RV people. The RV is the road we are walking — not the destination.
It has been a training ground. It has taught us about needs versus wants, systems versus chaos, small-space family life, and what it feels like to be a stranger in a community over and over. It has given us an unreasonable view of this country and its people. It has cost us real things too — consistent community, friendships, belonging, and ease.
We talk about all of it honestly on the RV Life page.
The family behind the site
She carries the daily academic load with extraordinary patience. She is the primary homeschool lead — adapting to each child's needs, keeping the core work moving, and knowing when to push, when to slow down, and when the whole day needs mercy.
I document the journey, build the systems, write the posts, and bring the side roads: theology, art, music, economics, tracking, taxonomy, herbal knowledge, nature identification, and practical projects. I also work full-time as a senior software engineer.
We have four children. They are part of everything on this site, but they are not the product. You may see their projects, hikes, drawings, notebooks, hands, and the life we are building together — but we protect their faces and their private moments.
We share family life, but we do not make our children the product.
Kingdom Farm
Kingdom Farm is the next major destination — but not the final one. It is a long-term vision for regenerative food, faithful work, practical mercy, hospitality, and deeper roots. We are scouting land, studying regenerative farming, counting the cost, and building toward it honestly.
The deeper goal is larger than a farm: to become the kind of family that can build, steward, serve, and endure faithfully wherever the Lord leads.
How we share
- →We tell the truth, but not everything.
- →We protect our children — no faces, no private or embarrassing moments.
- →We share enough to be useful, not enough to make our family the product.
- →No display ads. Affiliate links are disclosed and limited to things we actually use.
- →We correct mistakes publicly when we get things wrong.
If any of this resonates, you're welcome here. We're glad you found us.