The Movement We Never Abandoned

When Dear Farmer and the Wife married, their first home was a less than five-hundred square foot remodeled chicken coop.  It was a house with no doors.  A great and wonderful thing for Dear Farmer and the Wife while they were newly weds.  Issues had to be dealt with face to face.  Neither would run away, neither would back down, neither would give up their bed.  Problems were fixed by the next morning.
After child number three was born they listened to the advice of the ages...get a bigger house.  So they did. They actually doubled the square footage and purchased a house nearly 1000 sq.ft.
After children 8 & 9 were born they had to move for the farm...the house was triple the size of the house they came from.  The Wife nearly had a mental breakdown!  So much house!!!  Dear Farmer and the Wife have been overwhelmed by the amount of house, the amount of stuff, the amount of space.  They have an entire room just for a table and chairs!  Well, actually...it's two tables and chairs the room holds...and a buffet, and corner hutch, and coffee bar....and there's still room!
Dear Farmer and the Wife reminisce about those good old days...in the chicken coop.  Sure it was a squeeze, but it was the happiest squeezing ever.  The Wife made Dear Farmer promise to build her a chicken coop to move onto Honorable Son No.1's "someday" farm.  Dear Farmer promised he would.
There is a movement of people who are tired of stuff, tired of waste, tired of debt.  They are moving into "Tiny Houses".  We didn't know twenty years ago that our lifestyle would be "trendy".  Though we live in a house that is far too big (by 1950's standards) for our family (there are only nine children left at home presently), our hearts are in the tiny house.
Recently Dear Farmer decided we weren't going to be replacing the tent that we've had for twelve years. The tent served us well for many family campouts..."It's just not worth replacing.", he said.
We've talked of buying an RV?...a pop-up?...maybe just a trailer with bunks built in?  Then Dear Farmer had a "lightbulb" moment!  The Wife's tiny house!!!!  He's building the Wife a tiny house...a bunk-house, if you will.  It will be mobile, able to be trailer-ed from location to location, but with electricity and real mattresses!  And real walls! And real windows!  And real doors!  Dear Farmer's winterizing it, and seriously talking of A/C(which the Wife has yet to be convinced of).
How exciting!  To be able to share a love of small spaces and rustic living with our children!  The Wife doesn't have to wait until she's a Grandma...she gets to do it now!
Looking forward to sharing the tiny adventures with you!