Moving into a Camper

Now when you are moving from a 4 bedroom house with a full basement to a 30' tagalong camper things get interesting. You have to decide what you will "need" and what you can't live without. Then you have to figure out where to store everything.

Our oldest son would not be going with us. He was attending Job Corps in Bangor and would go to my mother's if there were any problems. This made things a little easier because it meant his things could go to my mothers and to his school dorm.

Our youngest son did a really good job deciding what he needed. The only large item we had to deal with was his electronic keyboard and we definately found someplace for that.

John is simple. He really didn't have a lot of things that he felt he needed. Mostly his clothes, his sword collection and his bow and arrows. All of which could be stored relatively easily.

As for me I had to go through all my books and decide what I "needed" and what I could live without. Books are definately my weakness. This was very difficult but I did manage to cut down to just several of the most needed and I gave the rest away to good homes.

I won't go through everything but needless to say we cut down on our material goods in a big way. We did this as a family, deciding what we wanted and needed. Together we figured out where to store things within our new home.

Another issue was that John and I didn't like the bed in the camper. I wanted OUR bed. So, John took out the camper mattress and began bringing out our boxspring and mattress. Now I have no way of describing the events to follow but watching my husband and son try to get our queen sized boxspring into this little camper was terribly amusing. They did however finally get our bed in. It may never come back out without a saw but it is in here now.

Once our bed was in the camper, we decided to start sleeping in the camper to begin getting used to it. Immediately it began to feel like home. The more it felt like home, the less we liked the house.

With the foreclosure creeping up on us we decided it was time to move the camper to Wayne's. Wayne came over with his truck and hauled us down to our new lot behind his house. And so our new adventure had begun.

This was my post to my online update list that I was keeping from our first night in the camper.

"Well it's comfy here. We were staying in the camper already, even at the house, so it was already starting to feel like home. We have some work to do here though. The camper is not sitting level and so water is leaking in a few areas inside. I need a different TV in our bedroom as the one I have in there barely works.

We have both dogs with us and they are not yet comfortable with the situation. I'm hoping they adjust but we will see as time goes on. They were really good all day yesterday but last night they were restless and today they are antsy and anxious. Noita was achy this morning but I think she was stressed out last night and tense so her muscles tensed up and got sore.

The humans are fine though. Johnny and I stayed up and watched a movie last night when daddy went to bed. Both of them are now sleeping and I woke up early with the dogs so I am getting some writing done. I don't actually have internet access here (yet) but I can get all my writing done and send it out later. When I go into town I can pick up wireless there so I'll just take my laptop to town a couple times a week for now.

Anyway, I forsee a lot of small projects over the next few months to get this comfortable and livable for the winter. We definately did not get even what we paid for. John had to reseal the roof twice, the fridge had to be replaced, and there are a few water leaks in the water lines but we will make the best of it and make it work for us. I think we will need to put blueboard around the whole camper and plastic to keep the heat in this winter as well but again, we will make it work. Our family has never had a problem getting through difficult times and this is relatively easy compared to some things we have been through.

On a positive note, I seem to be able to get a lot of work done here. I managed to write my second chakra lesson this morning, that I have been having trouble with for some time now. I have written another article this morning as well. If this is the payoff then I'm all for it. Maybe I can finally get my spiritual book finished and published."