The Boxcar Children

When I was a child, I loved The Boxcar Children book (not bookS). In the first book, the children find a deserted boxcar and make a home out of it. I was fascinated by their creativity and ingenuity. In the subsequent books they no longer lived in a boxcar hence my reasoning for only liking the first book. I also loved Hatchet and Swiss Family Robinson for the same reason: it's fun to see people change their surroundings to match their needs and literally make the most of everything they have. Now it's our turn to write our own survival tale.

I bought my house three years ago and while it has suited us pretty well so far, we have definitely been feeling cramped. Because we didn't pick this home together, it has always felt a bit temporary to us. Every closet and bit of attic/cabinet space is occupied. When I moved from my mom's large home, we kept a lot of things "just in case" we needed it later. When we found out we were expecting, my first instinct was "We can't possibly stay in this house." However, the fact that houses aren't selling combined with the fact that our monthly expresses are going to be stretched thinner with a baby, has caused me to rethink.

Now that I've gotten used to the idea, I'm actually looking forward to pulling a "Boxcar Children" and making this house work in the way we need it to. In reality the only thing we need to do to make things more comfortable is clean out. I've got to shed my hoarding ways and realize that we no longer need to keep things on the off chance that we will need them when we get a bigger house one day. I can't wait to clean out and make room for baby! There's no doubt in my mind that my dream house is right in front of me, if I will quit thinking of it as a temporary means of housing and truly embrace it for what it is :)