Quote Originally Posted by skrimpy View Post
I live in a small town and it is beautiful. Our house is old and small, but we hope to move out of town a little ways in the next two years or so. Right now we can walk to the grocer, the library, and DH walks to work. We have more shopping about a 10 min drive.

I love our area because the local food scene is very big. Lots of small farms and bakeries and restaurants that use local ingredients. We're also on the bay so in the summer swimming is minutes away. Lots of summer festivals, too.

We have snowy winters and the boots and coats are a bother but part of life

There is lots of fun to be had in the snow, then summer and fall are just glorious seasons with lots of garden and harvest fun!
We do want more room in house and yard which is why we want to move to the country, but still stay close to our current town
Skrimpy, your town sounds just beautiful and very pleasant place to live.

Concerning the space in the house - I live in a very small appartement where the 4 of us can hardly fit, but I like this part of town and everything about my appartement It's near kids school, full of light, and well, it's home.
But if we have 1 more baby, we will have to move in like 3 years or so, and my consolation is - home is where my DH and kids are As long as the 4 (or 5 lol!) of us are together I'm fine