I am so grateful for this beautiful place we will grow into but it would be a lie to say this adjustment process has been a breeze. I stopped so many bad habits during my time living tiny and I can already see that living in a big house brings back an urge to start those bad habits over again. I will stay strong though and remember to live all the lessons and better habits I developed over the course of the past year until they become second nature here just like they were in our tiny home. I look forward to combining the better habits with more solid, organized life routines as a result of living in a permanent home now! I will always be a traveler and I can finally implement things I like about other countries into my own home and routines now.
Moving from Easterlin, the tiny camper we lived in for a year
to this 3 bedroom home has been a wild ride. Our days off have been
filled with furniture stores, searching online for furniture and of
course sprinkled with blissful beach moments. I love the ocean with
every fiber of my being. I melt into the water and feel one with the sea
and think so clearly at the ocean. I love our natural, protected beach!
After spending May and June in San Diego I have fallen madly in love
with my new home city. There are many reasons why I would rather live
here now over California but probably the biggest one is that San Diego
was way too cold for me. I love the warm Florida nights and how the
ocean is the perfect temperature.
I
can't spend too much time floating around at the ocean though because
we will be very busy for months to come with the updating of our home.
I've eaten many meals on the floor due to the fact we had no furniture
at all moving here. We don't want to rush and buy any furniture we don't
love and won't last a long time. This process of moving very slow with
buying furniture is helping to ensure we don't end up with a big house
filled with junk we don't adore. I'm also a very true Libra and very indecisive so making tons of huge decisions with such big purchases is a
challenge. I feel a lot of fear and anxiety but I'm working through it. I
feel unworthy of this awesome experience of getting able to set
up a home a mile to the ocean in this dream city. This epic
time is a lot to process and take in. I know this sounds so cheesy but I can't believe my wildest dreams are actually
coming true!
The
hardest adjustment moving into a space 10,000 times bigger than what I
have been living in is remembering what I walked across the house to do
and remembering to put things away. I haven't yet developed a flow when
moving through the kitchen because I have to constantly remember where things are. Everything in Easterlin was within an arms reach. Here, I have to walk across the kitchen to grab something after pausing to remember where everything I need is hidden. In fact, when I walk anywhere to do anything in another room here I
normally get so side tracked along the way that I forget why I first came to the other side of the house to begin with! I also feel mentally scatterbrained but
that's also probably due to the fact that we have a thousand things to
do with the complete update and the purchasing of all the furniture.
In
time, this beautiful house will be in order and I'll have it all
organized but for now, this wild journey from living in a camper into a
house is going to be such a memorable time and really is pretty fun. At
this moment, life is just filled with opportunity. I hope to look back
and feel I made the best of this crazy time.
Photos in this post are from the evening of July 9th.
One of our first beach walks when we were still living in the camper!