Adjusting to our Little House & Homesteading

Life is full of adjustments...anyone over the age of 2 knows that! We have been going thru a new one...our move from 2400 sq ft to 1000. I was most concerned about two things...privacy and going from three bathrooms to one! I had maintained that the move would not begin to take place until the new addition containing a bathroom was at least on the drawing board, especially because we have 4 gals and 2 guys in our family. But much like we humans tend to do, we fret when all works out okay in the end! We are now all cozily settled into our Little Home, and now I know that we don't need any additions or major modifications.

We are want to be homesteaders, however, being a military family, moving frequently has been somewhat of a hindrance! Each move brought excitement and new terrain, but not the land nor the time we thought we needed. Nearing retirement, we are choosing to just take a risk and go ahead and do as much as we can. It might work out that we never reap the harvest of all our labors, but the learning and trying are a big part of the experience.
After 8 months in our home ~it is on a 5 lane road in the city~we have had the delight of our children running outside to eat fresh raspberries off the vine, have garden boxes,  and in our fridge sits a basket of eggs that our chickens have provided us.
I hope to share with others things we have learned, ways we have learned to make a small home work for a large family, both functionally and for the heart and mind. It was a dream that we had wanted for years and now we find ourselves in it! We have a long way to go!