Finally Something to Talk About!!

    The blogs have been a little few and far between in regards to the camper. There are 2 reasons for that. The first reason is that we are seriously just so busy! We wake up at 6:30 and work until we go to bed around 10:30 every night. The second reason is that it just really doesn't seem logical to give you guys the update "Painting AGAIN for the 10th day in a row!" Ha ha ha
    Things are finally moving at a pace that you can see in pictures. All the painting is done, the cabinet doors have been hung, flooring is down (and gorgeous!), Grandma Trish finished sewing all of our awesome polkadot curtains, and today Richard hung the valances to polish off the window treatments. The colors all look so bright and happy! We put in some baseboard to make everything look just a little more polished and we are working on replacing the vent covers as well as the outlets and light switches to a better matching color. We put together our Ikea sofa/bed and moved in our old buffet which will be used as an entertainment center/storage space.
    We are hoping to be in the camper this weekend to have a bit of a practice run in our driveway for a week before moving to our official landing space. Ideally this will allow us to work out any kinks and also make it a little easier to clean out the house. Check out the mini tour video Richard filmed below and stay tuned for more updates!

Losing a few hundred pounds!

    Due to the short timeline we made for ourselves to be in the camper we are having to become professional multitaskers. The renovations take up much of our spare time but when we find a few extra minutes we use it to downsize our belongings. Clothing has been the elephant in the house since we decided to embark on our journey. We just have so much of it! There was a point in time where our family really relied on hand-me-downs to dress the kids. After a while the donations just kept coming and it felt wrong to say no to perfectly good clothes when people were trying to be kind. So we'd take on more and more until it literally filled a whole room in our house.
    It was time to break the cycle. I have been looking into capsule wardrobes for myself and figured it would be a great way to thin out the kids clothes as well. So each of the 3 kids took turns picking their best and favorite clothes keeping in mind that it's best to have things that all work together and can be worn in multiple ways. Some tears were shed. Caydance, my oldest, is quite the fashionista and is a highly emotional soul. She can remember something great she did in every single scrap of clothing she had. But we talked through it and she ultimately agreed that fewer clothes would make life better for everyone and the planet.
    A few hours later we had 8 big garbage bags to donate to local charities (plus 3 other bags we had already filled). Each kid got their full wardrobe down to the size of 1 standard laundry basket. I think Richard is already relieved with the hundreds fewer pounds of laundry he will have to do. Laundry and limited wardrobes will sure be an adventure!