blessed

So…

There’s not going to be a new house. We’d done quite a bit of research and thought we had a decent idea of what the price would be. Yeah…we were wrong.

We now have to work on a serious home reorganization plan. I meant it when I said there’s very little room for baby. I may never get the nursery of my dreams now. Sigh…and you only get to have a nursery for such a short time. It kind of sucks.

However.

As previously mentioned, we are not lacking in material items. We have what is necessary (and probably more) to raise a child in a little house. I’ve been thinking of Costa Rica, when I spent about three months living with a host family of four in a home smaller than ours. They hosted students regularly, which usually made them a family of five. My host mama successfully raised two boys in that house, not to mention often taking care of an extra “son” or “daughter.” Neighbors with similar homes and more kids were doing quite well, too. And they had much less in the form of material items. I don’t think that they were always completely content with what they had, but they lived well all the same.

There will (God willing) be a new home one day. We still want to build; it’s just going to take longer than we had hoped.