sdsurfer, you are so welcome. 🙂 It sounds like we are cut from the same cloth and I’m so glad you feel what I wrote will benefit your discussion with your wife. 🙂 What you wrote about growing up with your mother was very touching. It’s funny that you didn’t even realize how broke she was. Often kids don’t. You were fed (even if it was good ol’ Top Ramen!), you were loved, and you had each other. Kids don’t care about living in 3000 sq ft. It’s just more room to divide each other, not help bring together.
It took me a while to get to those beliefs about less is more. I, too, bought into the modern American ideology of “bigger is better” for a while and can even find myself fantasizing about it when I go into those large, luxurious models. However, a nice, stable, modest home is all we really need. It is already so much more than many people have in this world.
