Moving

We moved today, into my parents house.

We are living here in the interim while we keep looking for a house and saving some money. I realized as we carried everything down 3 flights of stairs today, that in nearly 2 years of marriage we have accumulated a lot of stuff. Not necessarily junk or stuff we don't use but just stuff.

How much of our lives are consumed by junk? This short time in my old bedroom will certainly teach us to be thankful for space but also for the things that we need and do not need in our lives.

Our realtor mentioned that we should go as high as we are approved to go with the lender in our price range (we are looking about $80k below our approval) but why? Why do we need as $200k home when really our lives are not the house we live in, or the things that we own but the life that we lead and the love that we give. The offer we have out now is for a 1008 sq. ft. house (our apartment was 775) and I am excited, not because we will have so much more room but because we will have a place to call our own. We will have a place where I can paint the walls weird colors and have my children in the bedroom. We will have a place to love each other, grow a family, and work for our future. The dream is that after this house we will live in Africa. This is our first house and perhaps our only house.

I am excited to create memories in a place where other families have done the same. I am excited to make something our own and accept and love its imperfections. I am excited to make a stance against the materialism of America by not buying the dream house but buying a characteristic house, a house that we can call our own.