Clothes clothes clothes

The never ending cycle of clothes is overwhelming in a stick and brick house and it is my one concern with the move. I hate laundry. With limited space we have to downsize and have decided on 12 hangers plus pj's. I am about 1/2 way done with this adventure. Although I am loving the wardrobe cart I got from a not so quick trip to a fun to store. The laundry adventure continues tomorrow.

Tags & Hitch

Well the adventures continued today as we got tags for the truck, it's legal!!!! We are so excited by this and although there have been a few naysayers they will not be joy stealers. We also got the hitch ordered and should have it installed by next week. Things are moving rather fast now and I am beyond excited, just a few more weeks. We are hoping to have a mini adventure sometime this month after we get the trailer tagged and hitch installed.

Lighting adventure

With no time to waste we have begun our first adventure and so far it has not been fun. So we bought a used truck and it has a few things that we need to fix, no surprise. Well so far we can't figure out how to fix this. It is the license plate light, very important to night driving to be legal. We thought it was a bulb, oh no not that simple. The entire housing was all rusted out so we changed those out, rewiring in new ones. Nope. So we have ended day one of adventure one with no fix yet. I am researching some fixes that don't require rewiring anything, just yet. Oh and the puzzling thing of the day was the light we found mounted under the bed of the truck that has no apparent purpose. Hopefully we can figure it out tomorrow after talking with a few friends that are more mechanically smart than we are.
Oh and I also got to go to lunch with my oldest today, just us two. It was the first time we have done sure a thing and loved it. She has grown into a sweet young lady and I hope this was just the start of a long tradition. Have a blessed day as I am off to crochet.

Big things have happened.

Well I have not posted in a bit because I have been busy with cleaning, sorting and nothing of much adventure has happened. Well that has changed as of this week and God has sent us a huge blessing to start the new year. Lets start by explaining where this week started, hubs is laidoff and the bills don't stop coming in during these time. On Monday we were unsure of how the bills were to get paid and groceries were going to get bought. We have always believed the God provides for all of our needs, not wants, so something would happen and it did. God provided in a huge way. We have been looking for a truck, a truck with 6 doors that seats 7, not so easy to find. I found one on craigslist and was praying for God to provide it knowing we have no way to pay for it but still I prayed daily for this one specific truck. Well an amazing gift let us have the money to get a truck but it was less than they were asking for this truck. We took a chance and called anyways an boldly asked if they would meet our price point, without hesitation she did. So a quick recap Monday unsure of how to buy groceries and Friday owners of a new 6 door truck to pull our home around, my goodness is God big.

So everything was arranged we were off to look at the truck 4 hour drive one way with 5 kids in the minivan, lol. I was not thrilled with this because it would mean I was driving back 4 hours and I am not a fan of driving, night driving, long trip driving, hence the reason we wanted a 6 door truck.

 We had a great time the kids didn't fight at all. The family had some laughs along the way and it was a rather uneventful trip with some great memories made. We did have someone ask to take pictures of our new truck on the way home when we stopped for snacks. I am left in awe of how amazing our God is and how He blesses us.

Working on the house.

We have been working on the house in preparation of starting our adventure. It has proven to be a much larger task than originally thought. As we continue to go through the whole house and choose what goes what gets donated we are also are looking for our truck. Today is the last day of the year and can't wait to see what the new year brings.

Looking good....

Well it has been a crazy few weeks over the Thanksgiving holiday. Although we have slowly started moving things out into the rv we are still giving it a small facelift. The goal is to make it more of a home feeling as opposed to the very dated camping feeling, so I thought I would share some pictures. Do remember this is not done yet.

                                                                       Before

In Progress

The middle part of the doors is chalkboard. All of the wood will be painted white so the blue walls aren't to much. I am absolutely loving how it is turning out so far. Will resume painting tomorrow after a run to the hardware store for more paint. Hopefully we can finish the back bedroom by the end of week, since the kids decided that we need to have school in the RV it makes it easier to find the time to paint.

This may be evidence of a toddler having fun.

This is the fabric choices that I have made to recover the window valance boxes.

Thanks for stopping by and now I am off to cover some more window valance boxes. Have a blessed day.

 

Slowly moving in...

Well we started moving some stuff over to the rv, it's surreal. I hope to find a good heater soon since the kids are asking to start doing school out there, why not. I like the idea so I can get the school organization figured out because that is one of my biggest concerns. The only thing I will miss is our big trampoline, hopefully we can find somewhere to keep it where we can still use it sometimes.
I will continue to paint and make it a home over the next few weeks. It will be very bittersweet when we leave this house, three of my babies learned to walk here, yet we will be chasing our adventures.