Written by Brittany Little, Miss November 2013

These past few months have been crazy. We sold our house in five days and were out in less than a month. I loved that house, but it was the right decision and the right buyer. As the matter of fact, while I was attending AWBU this year, I left my husband to pack us and move us with movers. I know I should really win wife of the year! I hired two men and a truck, but asked that they send an extra man so I wouldn’t feel so bad while I was catching up with all my blogger friends. We couldn’t find an apartment immediately so we moved into my parents’ house. All of our “stuff” is crammed into three storage units. We are still here two months later and at the beginning stages of building our next house.

Isn’t it funny how you can have a whole house full of stuff, and have condensed your so-called necessities into basically a bedroom. I honestly think I packed more stuff for a week at the beach then what I have here with me. I used to like to go shopping at places like TJ Maxx, Target, Home Goods more frequent then I would like to admit. Now when I shop, I don’t buy anything because I don’t have anywhere to put it. Literally. I also have learned something that I wouldn’t trade for anything during this process. Instead of me buying the cutest accessory I think I have to have to make my house more homey, I realize I don’t. When we moved all the stuff out of our house, I looked around that empty house and realized one thing. It was just a plain house underneath all the stuff. It was kind of raw to think that after you take all the stuff away, it was a house just like down the street my neighbor lived in. We had so many great memories in that house, but it wasn’t the house that made the memories. It was all the people and the love in that house. The more stuff you buy isn’t going to make your house any more your home. Your home is wherever you decide to make it and whom to make it with.

I used to have this verse below hanging on a wooden sign in my kitchen. It was a daily reminder that God has given us such great things and way more than we could ever imagine. I hope you look at your own life and find gratitude in the small things.