So I’m still not really sure why we are living in a camper… KIDDING! Although all jokes aside some days I really question my sanity.

Our camper living journey started one random day in the summer of 2019. We were living in our second house together. A house, when we bought it almost three years prior, we thought was going to be our forever home. What we didn’t know was this house and circumstances were going to test our patience and our marriage.

By last summer my husband and I both knew this was not our forever home, but you can read more of that story here.

So we were playing around with the idea of building our dream home. How nice it would be to get to pick everything out from scratch and not have to try to perfect an imperfect 60-year-old house.

Building sort of seemed like a pipe dream though. We couldn’t stay in our house, pay the mortgage AND save enough in a reasonable amount of time for a downpayment to build. We also have our dogs and multiple (five, yes I said five) cats, so renting a cheaper place was out of the question.

Ethan casually mentioned to me that my grandma had a good bit of land that we could set a camper up there and sell our house.

We would make a decent profit on our house. The entire house was remodeled except the bathrooms. Plus the market in our area was booming!

I’m going to be real with ya’ll I thought he was for sure kidding. I love my family more than anything, but man they drive us both crazy sometimes. And I should add that my grandma, mom, and aunt and uncle and cousins all live on this land… like within sight of each other.

I laughed it off. I couldn’t possibly live in a camper next to my family for an indefinite amount of time… no freaking way.

But you obviously read the title of this post, and thus know that I am in fact living in a camper.

And said camper is on my family’s land, within sight distance of everyone. Pray for me ya’ll.

I decided to not totally discredit the idea and started thinking about what it could mean for our future.

I got really excited about the idea of getting to work together to design our own home. To pick out exactly what we wanted how we wanted it. To be able to see our home be constructed from the ground up on our land that we picked out in a location we loved.

Honestly, if I had not got so hyped about getting to plan my own house, we would not have taken this leap. And in order not to have my over-thinking and over-analyzing ruin everything and make me chicken out, we went full steam ahead with selling our house. As-in we discussed “maybe” this dream in July and our house was on the market by September.

And sold within a week…

We have been living here for about three months now. I am not going to tell you it has been easy. It has been a huge adjustment. Like I was not prepared for it at all, and I had tried to prepare myself in every way possible.

So many things went wrong. And so many mistakes could have been avoided. And so many feelings hurt and apologies that had to be made.

But we are so very thankful for this journey we are able to go on. We know how very blessed we are to have a wonderful family who puts up with us as much as we put up with them 😉