Well, we signed the lease last night. Although we haven’t gotten the moving van yet, we started taking what we could over in Felix our Flex.

The hardest thing about this move is not the downsizing, it’s that every donation place is still closed. We can’t even have a garage sale. I’m sure we’ll figure it out, but in the meantime, this is what our day looked like.

A lot of the kitchen stuff.

The kitchen is small but functional.

There is a small dining area that just barely fits our dining room table.

It’s just shoved up against the wall right now so we can move stuff in.

There is carpet in the living room and bedrooms. Not my favorite thing, but it’s clean and in good shape and we’ll make the best of it.

When I start to get overwhelmed, I just keep in mind the reasons we are doing this. We are going to be saving a lot of money each month. We love this neighborhood because it is so family friendly. We are going to be able to slow our life down. If those aren’t the best reasons ever, I don’t know what is. ❤

We took a break from packing today since it was Jack’s 13th birthday. It really bites to have a milestone birthday when your in quarantine, but we made the best out of it.

He doesn’t really like sweets, so he asked for a chicken nugget “cake” with lots if sweet and sour sauce.

He also got a newer and better phone. The one he had he’s had for 3 years and just recently locked himself out of it. We just got back from a 2 mile walk playing Pokemon Go. Whatever it takes to get him out of the house. For being quarantined, it was a fun birthday.

We’re going to sign the lease on the new house tonight. 3 more sleeps in this house then it’s go time!

One week from today we are moving. Thankfully it’s only 3 miles from where we live now, but the kicker is, the new house is half the size of the one we live in now. That means that we are going to have to purge 50% of our stuff. Yikes!

We have lived in our present house for 2 years. We made a decision as a family to find a place that was much cheaper so we could save money and pay off some debt. When we started looking there were only a little more than a dozen houses for rent and only a very few in the kids school district.

We had driven by the new one and thought that there was no way we could downsize this much, but the more we discussed it, the more it made sense. Saving $600 a month in rent, not to mention the savings in utilities, pretty much sealed the deal.

Is it scary? Yes. Is it exciting? Yes. It’s going to allow us to slow down. Spend time on things that matter. Live more intentionally.

I can’t wait to be settled in and see how this goes. Now to just get everything packed up. Wish us luck