So the boys and I were out shopping last week for a new piece of art for the guest room and we stumbled upon this!
”Love grows best in little houses with fewer walls to separate. Where you eat and sleep so close together you can’t help to communicate. And if we had more room between us, think of all we’d miss. Love grows best in houses just like this”
I stood on that aisle and read this over and over. This fully sums up what I loved most about living in the camper. Our togetherness!
The boys and I were talking recently and they also agreed that they really liked how we were always together. They liked hanging out with us and always being close. This made my momma heart so very happy. They really do like us and our time together.
I found this realization had me feeling grateful, elated and worried.
Grateful. I am forever grateflul and thankful for the sweet moments we spent together out of necessity. We had no real choice or options to go to other rooms or spaces. Pretty much all of our spaces were shared and multi-functional. The boys did this without complaint and more joyful than I ever could have imagined.
Elated. I couldn’t be more elated, happy and thrilled to have gotten to spend this time with my boys. Jared and I gave our boys an opportunity that most children or adults will never have. We enjoyed a very simple and minimalist lifestyle. We saw how little we could live with and our lives were still so full.
Who in their right mind would sell their home & move into a camper while taking our time looking for the best possible house for their family? We were brave, adventurous and dare I say just a bit crazy for embarking on the unknown.
Worried. Yep, you read that right. I’m just a tad bit worried that now that we are living in a home 500sq ft bigger than our last actual house & 6 times bigger than our camper, we may lose each other. We may lose the appreciation of the simpler life and the love for less. We may lose the constant conversation and the closeness out of necessity.
I guess voicing the concern brings attention and awareness so hopefully it won’t envelope us. I truly hope that we won’t allow the extra space to separate us in ways that don’t allow us to stay connected. Our time now will need to be more intentional since we do have more space to retreat to.
I guess it is a bit comforting though that at the end of each day, we still gather around the table for a family meal, or on the back porch to listen to the birds or in the family room for a movie. We still gather. We now just have choices as to where.
I guess I can agree with the last line of that piece of art… ”Love grows best in houses just like this!”
Our Happy Place!
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