My name is Lacie and I am The Countess of the castle and only second to The Count. My responsibilities include but are not limited to child wrangler, laundry guru, cookery specialist, and jane of all trades concerning the castle. You may ask what kind of credentials I have to perform all of these duties....hummm.....well.....really, none! Unless you want to count all of the in house training I have had, it is called first hand experience.
This is my first attempt at the blogging world and it is a bit scary to tell you the truth. I have all these thoughts of people hating what I write running through my head but I figure I just need to put myself out there. Please be gentle with me because I am not a writer, I actually hated English class in school and I could never get punctuation right. I don't even attempt to call myself a writer. All I want is to be able to express my passions and tell you a little about me and my family. You may find it entertaining or we may just be a bore.
I have been wanting to do this for a long time but I am one of those people that has lots of ideas but doesn't do all that much to makes those ideas real, so I guess this will be one step in actually moving toward one of my "great ideas".
There are many things that I would like to do in this life but there just doesn't seem like there is time. One of my real passions is living a different/simple life. One without all the trendy, newfangled things that most everyone thinks they NEED. The Count and I have taken the first steps in the direction of eliminating all of the stuff we don't need. We bought a house four years ago, our first home 2600 sq-ft, and now we want to sell it and move into 706 sq-ft. Oh, by the way we have two small children too.
This adventure began 8 months ago, we have had others as well, but it hasn't exactly been smooth sailing. There have been times where things seem to be going right and then times when you feel like you just want to give up! But we are committed to our dream and it always gets me thinking that anything worth doing takes hard work and perseverance. We are always going to run into hard times and they produce perseverance which builds character and hope! Here recently we have had some hard times but just telling you about our future plans helps me to regain my zeal for a different way of life.
If you have deduced that the 706 sq-ft structure we will be living in is a yurt then...ding....ding...ding....you are right. For awhile now we have been wanting to have a different lifestyle. One that isn't so fast paced and in your face all the time. We want to be able to enjoy our little family and maybe make it into a bigger family and really watch our children grow up. We knew we wanted a different life but we didn't know exactly how to go about it until one day when I was looking on Craigslist. I had teased my husband about living in a yurt and just for fun I searched for a yurt on Craigslist. What do ya know, a 30 ft yurt popped up in the search and it was only 2 hours away. I then proceeded to call my husband and kinda jokingly said " Hey there is a yurt for sale on craigslist.....how about I ask my dad if we can set it up on his property and live down there???." His reply was "I'm not saying no but ask your dad". I never thought that would be his response!
So I called my dad and asked him and he said yes. I really would have liked to see his face when I asked him if his daughter and family could essentially set up a big tent and live in it on his property. I am sure he was thinking that this will never happen!! Like I said before I have lots of "great ideas".
As much as I would love to sit here and go on and on, my family is in need of the cookery specialist. Keep checking back to get more of the story of The Count and Countess of Purple Yurt Chick and yes I will explain the meaning of that later too!!
Happy reading and farewell for now!!
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