TINY LIVING â—½ HOME
Well, we are at the final stages of the build! I can’t even believe it! The original quoted time line was eight to nine months, but now it’s looking like four to five! This is the fastest, slowest build! It seems super quick but when we’ve been living tiny for so long and watching the process as the home goes up, it seems like it’s taking eternity. We just want in so badly! And of course, things are breaking in the trailer so it’s making it worse trying to wait - but we wait with so much excitement!
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The newest broken item is our freezer/ fridge. It already was teeny tiny but with it now broken we have to use the outdoor fridge, and now I can hardly fit anything in that one! I literally go to the store three to four times a week because I just can’t fit everything. My kids heard one family complaining about what to eat for dinner. They said they were given so many options and no one seemed to be satisfied.
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My boys told me, “They have no idea that we literally eat the same thing every day and are so thankful we just have food.”
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That kind of made me sad, like I wasn’t providing a variety of food for them, but also kind of thankful that they realized what they do have and were just happy to have a meal. Again…sooo over the tiny living but so thankful for what it has taught me and my children.
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​I am glad my kids can see the bright side of things and be so thankful for what the Lord has provided for us. It gives us a better appreciation for things than I think most have, when they have much.
What one meal do we eat over and over again, you ask? I’ll tell you our pretty much every day menu. Breakfast usually is sausage and eggs. Lunch (depending if we are at home or out) will be a sandwich with turkey or pasta with sausage and chickpeas (we used to have frozen veggies added to it, but with no freezer that has been cut out.) And for dinner, we have beef, black beans, chili beans over some type of chips. I try to get zucchini or broccoli but if we don’t eat that quickly, it goes bad and is wasted. So sometimes we get a veggie and sometimes we don’t. I try to keep toppings like goat cheese and guacamole on hand, but that really depends on the room in the fridge.
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Lettuce was a new thing I added this week. I found I can buy a smaller package of that and it can fit in the fridge! I am trying to grow some lettuce, tomatoes and cilantro in the garden right now, so that will really help on the space if I can just pick off what I need. I do have some okra growing but it’s been hard to get enough for a meal.
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We haven’t decided if we’re going to invest in a new fridge for the RV quite yet. With all these costs of the new build, we’d like to save that money, especially since we’re so close to moving in! But even if we’re a month or two out still that’s a long time to keep living like this with no indoor fridge. We’ll see!