Putting the House to Bed

Every night my husband puts our son to bed. Diaper changes, story time, cuddles to sleep. Every night I put our home to bed. It's becoming one part of my day I truly cherish. Typically this is also when I practice my gratitude prayers as well. It's the perfect time to walk around the house and be grateful for every aspect of life while watching the sunset in our front yard. Starting in the living room and working my way through our tiny home with toys scattered all around I reflect on our day, say many prayers of gratitude, and prepare for the next day. As the sun sets in the sky during this time period I put everything in its place, including my thoughts. In a world of "busy" this is one of the many routines I follow to bring me back to the slow living lifestyle I adopted. Do you put the house to bed? What is your nightly routine?

Home Tour, 1000 sq ft

I know I've said it before, our house is small. Tiny houses are trending these days for a slew of reasons and I'll tell you why I love ours. Cheap bills is a major one! I'm in nursing school and we have a growing family so anywhere we can save we will. Heating a 1000 sq ft home with hot water heat is dirt cheap. I also love how it forces us to be close, we aren't losing track of anyone in our 9x9 living room! Yep, you read it right, that's the dimensions of our living room. Being in a home this small also really keeps us being intentional on what comes in and what stays in. I'm constantly purging and we only keep what we need. You won't find clutter or an over abundance of toys here, which we all find so freeing. I could really go on but let's just get into the house tour 😄

The first room is the sunroom, its breezy and sunny and it's a great spot to watch the sunset at night.

Walking through the downstairs is completely open concept. You'll find our dining room, living room, and kitchen all forming one L shape. 

We have one small bathroom but it makes up for its size with closet space ☺

And we have 3 bedrooms. One guest room downstairs and our bedroom and Luca's bedroom is upstairs. His room is completely unfinished because we all sleep together, so I will not be adding a photo of his room. The first image is our guest room with a tiny visitor 😏 and where our guests get the perfect view of the sunrise. And the last image is our master.

I hope you enjoyed our home tour. We have some updated to come like a some new light fixtures and a dining set so stay tuned! Do you live in a small home?

Learning to Love a Home

It took me a long time to love our house. I would arguably say I hated it at first. I started looking at house on Zillow the first week we moved in. We were rushed buying the house, Matt got a job in Rhode island and I had to sell my mountain home for a house in the city, and we had 1 day to find said house.

We toured the house and it had a unique story. It was built in 1875 and was part of the Boston railroad. Our home was where the conductors slept and also was involved with some bootlegging we are pretty sure. It sits about a mile off the Narragansett Bay and from the yard you can watch the sunset and the sunrise. The floors are all original and if you leave a toy car on the floor it keeps rolling because well, the house is old. When the heat turns on you can hear popping all over the house because it's hot water heat. None of the doors shut right and you can hear every step you take because again, old house.

It's small, slightly over 1000 sq ft so we needed to downsize a great deal. We had to let go of alot of our belongings we'd accumulated over the years. It made me a minimalist.

I couldn't put a finger on why I hated it so much. Maybe postpartum hormones or something. I gradually started to work on just accepting this house as our home. I adjusted the way I thought and came to realize it's not the walls that make the home it's the people inside these walls. I started to breathe love into this house. The things I hated I actively started to cherish, after all my son loves that his toy cars never stop rolling- ha! I started to feel refreshed by getting rid of things I hung onto for years and fully embraced intentional living and minimalism. I started watching the sun rise and sun set every day in our yard and being so grateful for each passing day. A walk to the ocean to breathe the salty air was no longer a dream but a daily reality. The popping of the heaters lulls me to sleep every night as I thank God for another day in this old house with my growing family. I have no idea how long we will live here, but I'm so grateful to call it part of our story and to call it our home❤