I could pretend everything is perfect. I could pretend it is all easy. That the dream in my head became reality and living in a less than 300 square foot tin can is the best thing ever. But, that’s not me – let’s be real.
We are wrapping up our second full week in our new home. There has been a huge learning curve to living in a small space that moves every so often. Ben is working, I am teaching the kids, we are living our everyday lives together. Truly together – ALL THE TIME. This week was the start of scheduled home school. There have been breakdowns. There has been yelling. There have been tears. There has been, “what have we done!”
But let’s talk about today. It was a good day. At the heart of this, today is what it is all about. Ben worked in the morning. The kids did their school work. We left for Savannah at noon. There has been so much chaos and in the midst of it – we needed this to remember that we are good together. That’s why we did this. Our daughter, who can complain if she has to walk for more than 5 minutes – had zero complaints today. Again, let’s be clear, it was not a pretty day. It was 50 degrees and rainy. When we got to Tybee Island we decided to tour the lighthouse. While it is beautiful and you should absolutely visit it to learn the history if you are there, it is not like we arrived at the Eiffel tower. But that is how our kiddos saw it. The Inn Keepers cottage brought on their imagination of how we could live in a house like that. They talked about their rooms and imagined eating meals in the kitchen. We climbed the 178 steps to the top of the lighthouse – Jackson counting the whole time and Sloan trying to throw him off. They laughed, they didn’t fight. This tour was wrapped up with the museum – that smelled eerily like cigarette smoke and felt like a sauna. Our children loved it. They found the old boardwalk ride exhibit and Jackson couldn’t stop asking about the jumbo popcorn (the size of today’s small) and how big would a small be?
We did a walking tour of Savannah that the cheesiest couple on youtube led us through. What a beautiful city. Our children stopped to look at the trees with the Spanish moss hanging on them. They climbed the historic steps that were 2 feet tall and laughed and helped each other up. Sloan wanted to visit the Juliette Gordon Low birthplace – but it was closed. So pictures outside it was. We walked with hot cocoa and coffee too warm our hands. Then had an amazing meal at Common (read all about our culinary delights here in Ben’s blog), but the best part was the company. We told stories about the day and laughed at our silliness.
On the way home, without prompting, both of our children told us what a good Friday it was. They went into their room and fixed their forts and then proceeded to play games together. When it was lights out time, I heard Sloan say to Jax, “I don’t really want to read, do you want to just talk for awhile?” Ben and I listened in – don’t judge – and my heart grew. This is why we chose to leave it all. It was a good day.
