Waiting......

My mind just starts to go crazy waiting. We are sitting in a bare house, that needs to be cleaned for our move out. I was messing around with the blog, trying to keep my mind from thinking too much (if you know what I mean) and I came across the organic sister. I have read on her site before and have seen her post on Unschooling Families on the Road (I think) and I would love to meet them some day. BUT Tara's  post this morning made me want to freak out.
Going into this new lifestyle of being a full time family on the road, we have had very mixed feelings. One day everyone is so very excited and the next day you start to wonder if we can handle being in 300 sq ft together. I should back up and tell our full story.

Once upon a time.....

About a year and half ago, we were talking about traveling and how much we want to see and experience in this world. Every year for the past few years we go to the life is good unschooling conference. Every time we go some where for that length of time, the kids miss the cats and home. We love being at home so much, but we love going places so much. Well I had heard of families living on the road full time and started reading more about it. It looked amazing! Exactly what we were looking for, to be able to travel without really leaving home.

Knowing my kids the way I do, I knew we could not just say "hey let's move into an RV". We had to slowly experience it and talk about it first. I can remember bringing up travelling in an RV one day to Jazmin, to which she replied I would NEVER want to do that. So we talked about the why's, and the main thing is that Jazmin does not usually like change. Every time we move she has a really hard time with it, but then LOVE's our new place after a few weeks. She just LOVES everything SO deeply, that she can not imagine leaving it.

Anyways a little bit of time went by and we were driving through Carson City and saw the RV dealers, so we decided to go check out some RV's. The kids had a blast going through each one. Jazmin said, I actually think I could do this. So we just day dreamed and talked and day dreamed some more about what it would be like to travel in an RV. We went to the RV dealerships a couple of times to get a feel and day dream.

Meanwhile we had moved to help lower our expenses, into a duplex. A wonderful family, the Buxcel's, had helped us move. They were a family on the road at the time. They were in the Reno area for a month or so and we went and met up with them a few times. I picked at their brain a lot about living on the road and we checked out their bus. It made me desire it even more!

A few months later we decided to rent an RV. We got a Class A (which I thought I blogged about, but goes to show how I have neglected this blog too much) and went to Twin Lakes, which is a few hours away from us. We loved it! We loved being in the RV and being at the campground and going to the lake. A funny little side story; on our way to the Lake we had stopped at TJ's and all the way from Reno we kept wondering why on earth it was so hot in the RV. We had thought the ac was on. Well Greg had figured out that the heater control was right where his knee was and he bumped it, so the heater was also going. It was so funny (maybe not so much at the time cuz we were sweating like pigs ;).

So this made the desire even more real! We wanted to be a FOTR! So we prepared for this to come. We had been searching and searching for RV's. Greg and I decided that we wanted to get a used RV, because we did not want to go into debt. The whole point is to be FREE!!! The kids were not to thrilled with the idea, because that meant no slides. And the slides made a huge difference in the RV, but we could not see spending  $1,000 a month on a payment on an RV, we would rather spend that on investments to make us money ;) So the kids came around. Greg found an RV in Phoenix (as I posted about earlier), great deal $4,000!!! It is a 38' Mallard Sprinter. It is HUGE!! It is in good condition. The only thing was a minor issue with the engine (which as you can see we are dealing with). It has an awesome layout.

We had put everything that is not going in to the RV in storage last weekend and that storage unit is packed FULL! The kids love their things, Jazmin loves to keep everything that she finds interesting or that has any kind of meaning to her (from rubber bands to pudding cups to everything in between). So we were able to fit bags and bags of their things in the storage unit, burying poor Bob, the '72 Cutlass, that will one day be fixed up!! We had sold our couches and extra tv's, etc.

Over the past few months, there has been many conversations about what is to come and what it will be like and how our how lifestyle will change. There have been moments where all of us at one time or another have said, what if we can not handle it, what if, what if, what if. It is hard when those silly what if's come into your head, your mind start's playing tricks on you. Then when you can relax and just settle in to the MOMENT, it is all good. We will adapt, we will make it and we will have the best experiences of our life, that I am sure of.

And so now all that we can do is......wait patiently for Greg and our new home to come pulling up so we can officially be a FOTR!

PS
Thank you Tara for writing out your post this morning, it allowed me to write out my thoughts and process more!