Good Saturday Morning!
Last night was our second time staying in our new home. The biggest challenge for me, which really isn't a challenge, is finding spots for everything. We actually have a good bit of storage so I move around items a lot. The hardest so far was my freezer. It is slap full right now. I threw away half of what I had in my big fridge freezer. It literally was items that needed done away with anyway so no biggie. Thankfully we do have an outdoor kitchen as well. We store items out here also and in the fridge. Best place to keep our bottled waters and drinks.
We are still in the packing process. Mostly packing and getting rid of items we don't need. Also during this time we are dealing with the Covid-19 scare. The state we live in announced yesterday they are closing public schools for a month. Our stores are selling out of so many things. We went to Sam's Club yesterday trying to simply find one bottle of hand sanitizer. There was none! They were even out of toilet paper and only allowing people 2 cases of water each member. We couldn't even buy a box of green beans, because they were sold out. Got one of the last boxes of Mac n Cheese. People have gone crazy needless to say. We even saw people wearing plastic bags on their shoes, gloves and mask while going through the store in a frenzy. Simply cover your mouths when you cough/sneeze, wash your hands (which is better than using hand sanitizer) and use hand sanitizer when water is not available to wash hands. It is simple as that! The mask are not going to help.
Among this craziness we woke up to a peaceful morning. My husband and his cat sat watching the birds while having coffee. We are in the same park our mobile home is located in, but we have more trees and nature around us. We are able to sit and watch Cardinals, Bluebirds as well as Squirrels. Where we were living we saw nothing but Mahogany Wasp. This kept us locked up indoors year round due to allergies to wasp stings. We could not sit outside and enjoy anything. Now we can enjoy the outdoors fully.
When Suddenlink gets our internet set up, some time today, I will be able to get pictures shared to the blog. Till then you can catch photos on my Instagram @TheWendyCLife. There will be more posting in the future there as we get settled into our new life.
So with that being said... It's time to get back to unpacking and organizing! Wish me luck!!
Until Next Time!
Saturday, March 14, 2020
Wednesday, March 11, 2020
The Moving Begins
Hello Friends, Family and Followers,
Monday was the day we got our new home. This literally is the first brand new, never been lived in home myself and my family have ever had. We are super excited and more than ready to be fully moved in. The moving process started off yesterday. It was very slow going though. Today me and the kiddos are hitting it hard though. All we can do is sit, look around and wonder what in the world are we going to do with all of this stuff.
The hardest part for me is the standing and walking so much. My back has been bothering me since I re-injured my Achilles Tendon last year. Sitting around made me soft again and the added weight doesn't help either. Come tomorrow though we should be staying in our tiny home. Our power will be turned on tomorrow. We got our water hooked up yesterday. The fridge is nice and cold for our food to go into. Yes, our fridge is working without electricity. It runs off of propane and electricity. Perfect for dry docking and living off the grid. We are even wired up for solar panels. Just have to buy the panels and plug them in.
After we are moved in and settled I will start posting pictures. Right now life is too crazy and turned upside down, literally. Just pray for our family's sanity as we sort through 11 years of accumulated junk to find our treasures.
Until Next Time!
Monday was the day we got our new home. This literally is the first brand new, never been lived in home myself and my family have ever had. We are super excited and more than ready to be fully moved in. The moving process started off yesterday. It was very slow going though. Today me and the kiddos are hitting it hard though. All we can do is sit, look around and wonder what in the world are we going to do with all of this stuff.
The hardest part for me is the standing and walking so much. My back has been bothering me since I re-injured my Achilles Tendon last year. Sitting around made me soft again and the added weight doesn't help either. Come tomorrow though we should be staying in our tiny home. Our power will be turned on tomorrow. We got our water hooked up yesterday. The fridge is nice and cold for our food to go into. Yes, our fridge is working without electricity. It runs off of propane and electricity. Perfect for dry docking and living off the grid. We are even wired up for solar panels. Just have to buy the panels and plug them in.
After we are moved in and settled I will start posting pictures. Right now life is too crazy and turned upside down, literally. Just pray for our family's sanity as we sort through 11 years of accumulated junk to find our treasures.
Until Next Time!
Saturday, March 7, 2020
We Are Downsizing!!
Hello Friends and Followers!
I hope everyone is having a great start to March. This month brings in the start of Spring soon. The time for rebirth and fresh starts. This is the perfect time for changes.
Yes, my blog title suggest changes for my family and I. They are actually pretty big changes, so here goes.
After long thought and discussion we have decided to move. First move will be into an RV. The area we want to move to is pretty much impossible if you are not already established near by. If you can afford to live in a motel/hotel then you will be fine. For us however this was not going to work. So, the RV route seemed our best option. Also, it will be cheaper to pay a monthly note and rv park cost than to rent a house and pay utilities.
It was suggested to me that I should share this RV Living journey, so here I am. If I am going to share I am going to share from the beginning.
We went to NW Arkansas where we plan on moving to last week. We decided last week this was home and looked at some rentals. This is when we found the roadblock when it comes to renting a home. Mind you we have talked about moving to NWA for not even a year now. We just didn't settle fully on which area.
We had given ourselves the goal to move by October of this year. This Spring or Summer, can't remember which, will mark one year of our decision to move. Well to move to Arkansas. A few months prior we actually were looking at Texas. Less than one week later after visiting up north we found our new home. Green light was given a week later and we will be getting it in our possession Monday. One and a half weeks after we said "this is home" and began working toward moving.
When things are meant to happen, they happen fast.
So, now we are past the shopping phase. We are now on to the planning and downsizing phase. Granted we are moving from a single wide mobile home into a 37' trailer, but you can honestly fit a lot of un-needed items into a 16 x 80. Now it is just all about weeding out what we don't need. Then it will be all about what to do with items we will need when we get a home. The items that won't be able to go inside the RV.
So what's to come in the future of this blog?
Tips, How Tos (this will be on what works for us), our adventure, Cooking and much more. Heck, I might even give YouTube another go. So stick around and see where this adventure takes us!
Until Next Time!
I hope everyone is having a great start to March. This month brings in the start of Spring soon. The time for rebirth and fresh starts. This is the perfect time for changes.
Yes, my blog title suggest changes for my family and I. They are actually pretty big changes, so here goes.
After long thought and discussion we have decided to move. First move will be into an RV. The area we want to move to is pretty much impossible if you are not already established near by. If you can afford to live in a motel/hotel then you will be fine. For us however this was not going to work. So, the RV route seemed our best option. Also, it will be cheaper to pay a monthly note and rv park cost than to rent a house and pay utilities.
It was suggested to me that I should share this RV Living journey, so here I am. If I am going to share I am going to share from the beginning.
We went to NW Arkansas where we plan on moving to last week. We decided last week this was home and looked at some rentals. This is when we found the roadblock when it comes to renting a home. Mind you we have talked about moving to NWA for not even a year now. We just didn't settle fully on which area.
We had given ourselves the goal to move by October of this year. This Spring or Summer, can't remember which, will mark one year of our decision to move. Well to move to Arkansas. A few months prior we actually were looking at Texas. Less than one week later after visiting up north we found our new home. Green light was given a week later and we will be getting it in our possession Monday. One and a half weeks after we said "this is home" and began working toward moving.
When things are meant to happen, they happen fast.
So, now we are past the shopping phase. We are now on to the planning and downsizing phase. Granted we are moving from a single wide mobile home into a 37' trailer, but you can honestly fit a lot of un-needed items into a 16 x 80. Now it is just all about weeding out what we don't need. Then it will be all about what to do with items we will need when we get a home. The items that won't be able to go inside the RV.
So what's to come in the future of this blog?
Tips, How Tos (this will be on what works for us), our adventure, Cooking and much more. Heck, I might even give YouTube another go. So stick around and see where this adventure takes us!
Until Next Time!
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