Less Bedrooms

As I was waking up this morning I began really thinking about our house, our space and our bedrooms. We live in a fairly large house for a family of five, too big.... much, much too big when you're the only one cleaning it, but when we were looking we were bursting out of the seams of our starter home. In the course of 20 months we went from a dual working adults to a toddler, a newborn, SAHM and a husband working from home. It was crazy! My poor husband was having to make sales/business calls from the car in the garage. When we bought our current house we made sure there was another room for baby #3 (Corrine), home office and a nice guest room for my dad who winter's with us. Yes... plenty of room. More than we would need.

Back to this morning.... as I'm waking up, I removed Maggie's foot from my left knee and stole the covers back from Kailey. I began to really think about the fact that though the house has um... 5 bedrooms, with Todd in CA on this 9 month detail, we occupy a total of 2. Two! My mind started doing all this crazy math... like, holy moly, we could totally just move into a 2 bedroom apartment and think (THINK!) about all that space I wouldn't have to clean. Think of the money we'd save, think of all the stuff we could get rid of and did I mention all the stuff I wouldn't have to clean?

Even when Todd is home Kailey and Maggie normally sleep in the same room. Maggie has a very lovely, lavender room (done with dragonflies, cute), but the two girls prefer to sleep together. I like to recall parts of Little House on the Prairie books where Mary and Laura snuggle together when they are cold and such, that's what I think of the girls. Mostly I think they like to wake each other up early in the morning and play, but whatever as long as they aren't fighting. Even with that it's only 3 bedrooms occupied in the house.

We could soooo downsize. I'm in the mood to downsize, is it the economy, the recession or just this point of life? I'm ready for things to be simpler and less bedrooms just seems to be a good place to start.