The Plunge

We did it!!!  We took the plunge and are now houseless.  This is different than homeless since we indeed have a home.  It now has wheels on it and is only about 15% of the square footage we once had, but it is a home.  Selling our house was a very stressful process and we all feel relief that it is over.  In a nutshell the buyers had to change lenders and push the close date back three weeks and then we had a pipe burst days before closing and had to push the close date back another week.  The day we found out that we had a broken pipe we were supposed to be moving into the trailer.  However on that day we found out the RV park we were planning on staying in was not going to work out.  Can you say stressful?!  We found another place to park the RV and feel it ended up being a much better fit for us.  So I guess it all worked out but it sure was overwhelming for a few days. 

We have been in the trailer for about a week now.  We are still organizing and figuring out how to fit everything in.  We already moved another full box of toys out.  We have spent the last year working on downsizing but it still wasn't enough.  I have a feeling that this will be an ongoing process.  The bed situation is not working and we are in the process of figuring out what to do.  We are sleeping on a lumpy short queen which means we feel like two giants on a kid bed.  Also there is this problem with our girls sleeping through the night.  They play musical beds all night long.  Kya has her mattress from the house, which is the only decent mattress we have. As soon as she crawls into our bed there is a race to be the first one in her bed.  I really want to sleep train her to stay put but I also like her bed.  It's an internal struggle. Other than the sleeping, everything else is going well.  We like the small space and I like that cleaning takes no time at all.  The kids spend more time than usual outside and less time on electronics. 

While we find ourselves missing the security we felt with a house, there is something to be said about the freedom of having few possessions and our home is able to move whenever we want.  We aren't exactly sure how this risk is going to work out and that feels a little scary.  Living outside the box is not necessarily easy and I know that there are more naysayers than supporters out there.  But it feels right for us and we feel comfortable with the risk we are taking. 

Here we are saying goodbye to our home. The brown house as the kids call it. 

Here is our new home.  We call her Millie.