Our Life in Boxes

My friend suggested I write a post entitled, "My Life in Boxes".
She had just seen our garage, which is steadily becoming more and more full with our life.... a life in boxes. So here it is!

The funny thing about packing up your life is that you realise how much stuff you've collected over the years. Stuff you need, stuff you don't really need and stuff that means something to you, even though it's useless on a practical level. (Rocks your children painted? Keeping those for sure!)

In a good way, packing up a life has meant a more than healthy dose of de-cluttering occurred. All those 'don't really need' things just had to go. But on a bad day, packing up our lives has left me feeling a bit raw and vunerable; stripped away; bare. Those days are the exception, thankfully. Mostly, it has been freeing to have less. Mostly. 

The saying that less is more is becoming rather practical right now. What I mean is, now that we have less to occupy ourselves with, I've realised that having too much stuff actually prevents you from using any of it fully. We are having to keep busy with the few things we have left for the children to do. But that has meant we are thoroughly using it all! Craft supplies are finally getting used up. We have exhausted our playdoh and I'm nearly out of bread flour. :) Things are being fully used, and for that I'm very glad.

We have almost reached the point where we can't pack anymore until we are about to head off. We are kind of at base level now; Using what we need to get through the days before we go. There will be another hectic period of packing and giving away once our house sells. But for now, I'm just enjoying the things we have left.

My life is in boxes.....

and yet......

our 'out of the box' adventure is getting closer by the day.

Don't you just love life's little quirks?

Sara

*image curtesy of livingwikii.com*

The First Night (with Children)

There are several things that stick in my mind after our first night in the caravan with the children.

First was the weather. There were strong hail and thunderstorm warnings for areas about 50kms from us. We didn't get those, but it sure rained heavily! This meant that we were

The Rig (a-jig-jig)

Our caravan has arrived!! We were one hugely excited family, that's for sure!

My husband did a super job of reversing it into our driveway, even with people waiting to be let through to add to the pressure. :)

Since we are a family of seven, we had limited choices for