Living a Simple Life

Today I was looking at these great small houses and I began to think what would it be like living my life in a small home.  Don't get me wrong, I love the home I am in because of the attatchments I have to my Grandmother, but in different circumstances would I want to live in this?

http://www.tumbleweedhouses.com/houses/z-glass/

The idea of having less to clean, less extra stuff on hand, less bills, less carbon footprint, etc.  all is very attractive to my life.


I don't think I could ever do it, because the loft sleeping aragements is a little claustrophobic and the kitchen dosen't have much room for slicing and dicing.  I think this would be a nice "summer home" in the woods somewhere. 

Then again I am a little scared of bears.

Good Bye Little

L.S. learned how to ride her bike a few months ago.  After becoming extremely confident on her smaller bike she decided that it was time to move onto her brothers old bike.  This is something we do a lot in our family.... hand me downs.  There has never been any ill feelings from any of the kids because we try to teach them the value of using a toy, clothes, bikes until they can not be used anymore or given away to someone who needs it.

L.S. was able to bike on her new bike (notice we personalized it with a pink basket used from her old bike).  She rode it around and was so proud that she was able to ride a big bike but then....

did she fall off, no.  Did she get hurt, no.  Did she miss her old bike because she doesn't want to grow up, yes.  When I was a kid I dreamed about all the freedoms I would have being big.   L.S. fights it every step of the way.  I think her new name should be Peter Pan.   

I asked her why she didn't want to get big and she said "I don't want to buy a house!"  Ah the worries of a 7 year old!