{"id":57445,"date":"2025-01-30T09:37:28","date_gmt":"2025-01-30T09:37:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peraltafinancing.com\/apartment\/happy-new-year-600sqftandababy\/"},"modified":"2025-01-30T09:37:28","modified_gmt":"2025-01-30T09:37:28","slug":"happy-new-year-600sqftandababy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=57445","title":{"rendered":"Happy New Year \u2014 600sqftandababy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.squarespace-cdn.com\/content\/v1\/56a2fb4140667ae539feb6b5\/1704581368618-L9CPIRJ9AODI8PONKTM2\/DSC09695.JPG?format=1500w\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">In the midst of the holiday rushing and celebrating while simultaneously watching horrors unfolding on the other side of the world through our phones, I\u2019ve found it hard to find the right words. There are no \u201cright words\u201d as our lives carry on while others end. Yet we keep carrying on to make magic for our kids even when it is unfair.  So what I wanted to say is that, I hope you didn\u2019t take on more than you could manage this holiday season. That you received and gave just the right amount of thoughtful, beautiful and useful gifts. That you had time with loved ones. That your small space was filled to the brim with too many people with plates on their laps and drinks spilling over and pillows for floor seats. I hope you found moments of calm and joy. I hope you remembered that it\u2019s not the size of your home or your table but your company that matters most. <\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\"><strong>Looking to the New Year <\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">I\u2019ve been having this feeling that the ease of living in 900 square feet as a family of four means I have less insights to share. Living in 600 square feet as a family of 4 required constant effort and problem solving in our space that felt easy to share often. Whereas vigilance and systems in this bigger space can be more lax. But I realized recently, or more accurately remembered, that the reason living in our larger (yet still small home) is easeful is because we live in it with all the lessons learned living in a our one bedroom 600 square foot apartment. We created habits and ways of living that have made our two bedroom apartment feel like more than enough space. And while these habits have become second nature to us, it doesn\u2019t mean it\u2019s not worth sharing and re-stating. <\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\"><strong>We don\u2019t need bigger spaces! We need less stuff.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">Recently, I was listening to a couple episodes of a favourite podcast <a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/i-will-teach-you-to-be-rich\/id1577864998\">&#8220;I Will Teach You To Be Rich\u201d by Ramit Sethi <\/a>(episodes 135, 136, 137) and noticed both families\/couples mentioning that they <strong>had<\/strong> to move into a bigger house to accommodate kids. One couple said their 1200 square foot home could never have a baby in it. And another couple said they <strong>needed<\/strong> a home with a bedroom for every kid and a finished basement. Some of these couples were paying for these homes way above their means and fighting about money. I wanted to yell at the podcast (that has obviously been pre-recorded), YOU DON\u2019T NEED A TON OF SPACE TO HAVE KIDS!!! YOU JUST NEED LESS STUFF!!!  My desire to yell at a podcast or somehow track down these strangers\u2019 information so I could send them an encouraging email that it is indeed possible to have a good life in a small space and your small space can be beautiful too made me remember I do have somewhere to shout into the depths of the internet. And that while our current space is not extremely small it is still smaller than the North American dream home and still a space that most people don\u2019t think they can live in comfortably. As my single neighbor said to me the other day, \u201cyou live a complicated life Alison\u201d when I was explaining how we all fit in our space quite well, ha. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the midst of the holiday rushing and celebrating while simultaneously watching horrors unfolding on the other side of the world through our phones, I\u2019ve found it hard to find the right words. 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