I have been asked this question over and over again – probably about once a day.
I understand why people ask it, I probably would too. I guess it’s a logical question since we will have 4 kids come December and live in a 2-bedroom house. Just with the repetition of he question- all I hear is “What is wrong with you?”
The fact of the matter is, we are fine where we are right now. We are not crawling up the walls or begging for privacy. We are very happy. So if that makes us weird – so be it. I’ve found that it definitely makes us outside of the norm, which is something I’m fine with, but in this situation, I find myself questioning our feelings.
This questioning has led me to late googling; the specific search, “big family small house”. Wow. That search was very comforting. I found myself from feeling “little old woman who lived in the shoe-ish” to feeling that our 900 square feet was spacious and sharing rooms was normal. Try it.
The other thing I did, in search for peace with our decision, was rented the first season of Little House on Prairie. My goal was to figure out how Ma did it? Family of five living in a cabin surely smaller than our house. Where did she put all the toys? What about clutter? How did she organize the closets effectively? Honestly, it took me about 3 episodes into it to realize that it was a movie set and watching the rest of the season was not going to answer my questions. I know I was/am crazy.
