So, when we planned our journey from going from renters to homeowners, we enlisted the help of my husband's mom. She has wanted her son to move back to the farm that she lives on for years (since the day he moved out), so she waited for 10+ years.
The plan was, to wait until Xander graduated high school & Olivia finished her third-grade year (so moving during the summer of 2022). My husband and I started saving money for this adventure because we were going to build a Barndominium on a portion of the property. In the meantime, we planned to buy a camper and live in it while we saved for a year or two to build our house so we wouldn't have a mortgage.
Thanks to COVID our plans changed in the most terrible ways. We lost my mother-in-law in the fall of 2021. After we came out of our grieving fog, we sat down and re-evaluated our plans. Trying to decide if we were going to continue with the plan. No offense to his oldest baby sister, who also lives at the farm, we were not sure we wanted to move out there with her no longer being around anymore. But we pushed through and decided we would stay on track (because that is what she would have wanted).
Lucky for us, our son Gavin had bought a camper that he was using for his job, which required him to travel a lot out west. He decided he was moving back to Florida, and no longer needed the camper-so we took over the payments! I mean, and if you've read some of my other blog posts, you already know how nice this camper is.
We reached out to our property manager and told him of our plans, but at the same time, I sent him the email I was receiving an email from them saying the owners of the property wanted us out in thirty days! This was the end of January 2022! The kids were still in school, and my son Weston hadn't found a place to live yet (since he wasn't moving to this new property with us to live in a camper). We asked for a few more months but were denied. Lucky for us, we had already had a plan in place & since we had the camper already-we just made it happen. We moved the camper to a camp grown closer to my husband's work, but still in the same school district so Olivia could go to school and we "camped" for two months. We bought a shed and put it at the property to store all of the crap that we were keeping.
So now, as I type this, I am sitting in the living room of the camper, on his mom's property enjoying a warm Florida day.
Oh, and the title...."We bought a house!"? That literally happened last week. As plans changed again since my husband was really just over living in the camper-we looked around for the perfect little mobile home to upgrade from a travel trailer to a permanent trailer! And we are now the proud owner of a brand new 1300 square foot doublewide! She is sage green on the outside, with black shutters. On the inside, she has a very clean open layout, with a bright color palate. She has a stainless steel apron double sink, with a neat pull-down kitchen faucet. Our bathroom doesn't have an annoying garden tub-it's just a tub shower combo! The toilet is hidden behind a wall, which I also love. There is NO carpet in any place in the house. The laundry room has a door on the inside, so it separates from the kitchen (meaning I won't have to hear the washer and dryer while hanging out in the other spaces! The side door, leading into the laundry room has a cute little white cottage door while the front door is a big steel door with no window. The entire house is fitted with wide plank pull-down blinds (no strings). She has an island, and she has a pantry. I mean, I could go on and on but here are a few photos!
