Its been 6 months!!
So we have been living our new life style for 6 months! (Holy cow).
One thing that we read about while prepping for this life style was the people and how incredible most of them are. We have seen this first hand! There have been friendly people in almost every campground that we have been in. In the last 6 months we have talked to people more, that are our neighbors, then we did in the entire 10 years that we have owned homes! (With the exception of 1 great family in Goddard Ks, we miss having them across the street from us!). We have met people from all over the country, ones that are traveling Fulltime and ones that are just trying to camp as much as they can! Our children are very social, talkative kids and everyone we have met have been amazing to them. Several have even went above and beyond. After seeing so much, now days, about all the craziness in the world, it is good to experience some good. It’s good to see that, besides inside our closest circles, there are still good people being genuinely nice to each other.
This was just one of the things that we are enjoying about our new life style. One of the other major ones is the time we get with our kids! If you were to ask me 3 years ago if I would ever consider being a stay at home mom and home school the kids, I would have told you are crazy!! In fact, I had that conversation with different friends over the years. But it has been enlightening to see them grow and experience things over the last 6 months. We have completely turned their world upside down and they haven’t missed a beat! They have been more open to parts of it then we have. They amaze me every day. Now don’t get me wrong there are hours (lets be real, days) that I want to pull my hair out, but the good and great out weigh the bad by far.
The last thing I want to bring up is Derek and I. Everyone asked (and I’m sure have bets going) about how we would live in such a small place with out killing each other. You know since we are in a little house around each other ALL day long. (Not really! There is great outside space) Honestly it has been really good also! I think we have grown closer and understand each other a little more then we did in our 8.5 years of marriage before. We argue less, there are less things to argue about. We have been able to see some pretty amazing places and wonderful views and that helps make things even better. Again let’s be real we have our moments but who doesn’t?!?
One thing that we read about while prepping for this life style was the people and how incredible most of them are. We have seen this first hand! There have been friendly people in almost every campground that we have been in. In the last 6 months we have talked to people more, that are our neighbors, then we did in the entire 10 years that we have owned homes! (With the exception of 1 great family in Goddard Ks, we miss having them across the street from us!). We have met people from all over the country, ones that are traveling Fulltime and ones that are just trying to camp as much as they can! Our children are very social, talkative kids and everyone we have met have been amazing to them. Several have even went above and beyond. After seeing so much, now days, about all the craziness in the world, it is good to experience some good. It’s good to see that, besides inside our closest circles, there are still good people being genuinely nice to each other.
This was just one of the things that we are enjoying about our new life style. One of the other major ones is the time we get with our kids! If you were to ask me 3 years ago if I would ever consider being a stay at home mom and home school the kids, I would have told you are crazy!! In fact, I had that conversation with different friends over the years. But it has been enlightening to see them grow and experience things over the last 6 months. We have completely turned their world upside down and they haven’t missed a beat! They have been more open to parts of it then we have. They amaze me every day. Now don’t get me wrong there are hours (lets be real, days) that I want to pull my hair out, but the good and great out weigh the bad by far.
The last thing I want to bring up is Derek and I. Everyone asked (and I’m sure have bets going) about how we would live in such a small place with out killing each other. You know since we are in a little house around each other ALL day long. (Not really! There is great outside space) Honestly it has been really good also! I think we have grown closer and understand each other a little more then we did in our 8.5 years of marriage before. We argue less, there are less things to argue about. We have been able to see some pretty amazing places and wonderful views and that helps make things even better. Again let’s be real we have our moments but who doesn’t?!?
