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Saturday, December 23, 2023

Christmas Decorations in a RV ? Yes!

The past few years while living in our motorhome, my Christmas decorations have been very basic.  The first year I had a small tree, about 18" tall.  I had that tree stored in my office at work and when I started cleaning out in preparation for retirement, I just moved the small tree to the RV.  After that first Christmas I got rid of the artificial mini tree and just bought a few decorations for the mantle.


The stocking was also from my office, I had made a few of these from an old quilt that was worn through so that it had holes in some areas.

I added a tree that was the appropriate size, easy to store and didn't drop needles.  The less mess the better in our small space!



After seeing some beautiful trees and decorations this year in normal size houses, I decided I really needed to add some lights to our motorhome Christmas decor. So I made a trip to Dollar Tree and bought an assortment of inexpensive items to make a garland for the mantle.  Each item was $1.25 except for the lights.  I decided to go with lights that plug in rather than battery powered lights because there is an outlet right at the end of the mantle on the fireplace.  If there had not been power handy, I would have used a battery powered light strand.






I folded the garland to the appropriate length and weaved the lights around it and then added the picks and ornaments for accent.  I was highly pleased with the end result!  I attached some plastic hooks to the mantle with double sided tape to hold the garland and wooden word blocks in place.  We made two moves after the installation and the decorations stayed in place during our moves.  The Christmas tree is just sitting on the table so I stored while moving.







I have greatly enjoyed the lights and the decorations this Christmas season and will probably leave them in place for a week into January, at that point we will be moving further south for the remainder of winter and I'll store them until next Christmas season.

Merry Christmas to all!


Much Love & Laughter,
Laura


Wednesday, November 22, 2023

Three years living full time in a motorhome!

This week we marked the 3 year anniversary of moving into BB, the land yacht, and living the full time RV life. It’s been an adventure for sure! At times it hasn’t been what we expected and sometimes it’s far exceeded our expectations.

I thought when I retired and started traveling that I would write about our travels on this blog and I really dropped the ball and have been incredibly lazy about sharing this amazing adventure. I am planning to change going forward and post about some of the beautiful places we have visited, our RV life and the campgrounds and various places we have parked and made home for a night or a month in the past few years as well as share our travels going forward.





I thought we would be closer to the end of this lifestyle by now, but unforeseen circumstances have changed our ‘very loose’ plans. So currently, we think we will be living this way for a while longer and that's okay because we still love seeing new places and visiting people across the country.





We’ve traveled about 25,000 miles in the RV and an additional 38,000 in the Jeep.

We have visited 31 states.




We seen the smiling faces of around 120 friends and family members, many of whom we had not seen for years, some it had been decades!

We’ve seen countless beautiful places that left us even more in awe of God’s creation.





We’ve laughed, we’ve cried, we’ve made mistakes, we’ve learned, we’ve sacrificed, we’ve been very blessed and best of all we’ve been together every mile.





Living in a small space for years is not something I would recommend for everyone, but it has given us the opportunity to travel and reconnect with people we love....

and I would recommend that for everyone.





Have a blessed Thanksgiving. I hope you get to spend the holiday with family and friends, whether that 'family' was chosen for you or you picked them yourself!

Much Love & Laughter,
Laura

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