In 2012, my husband and I became parents and from there our family grew from three to five by 2019! While our family was growing, we suffered some hardships that drove us straight into poverty. Getting the lights turned off and waiting in food bank lines was no stranger to us. Our dream was to buy a home that would comfortably fit our family, but it seemed like the harder we tried to fight for our dream, the more housing costs would skyrocket.

Eventually, my husband and I realized that buying a conventional home might just be out of our reach, but we didn’t want to completely give up. We decided that if we couldn’t buy a home, then we would build one. We purchased a massive shed, put it on a family member’s property, and over the next year and a half my husband, with blood, sweat, and tears turned that shed into a beautiful tiny home for our then family of four.

During that time, we got the surprise of our life when we found out we were expecting our third child! Four people was already going to be a tight squeeze in that tiny home, but somehow we managed to survive with five people! 

We moved into the house a couple months before our third son was born in December 2019. As you all know, it was just a few months later when the entire world turned upside down because of the Coronavirus. Can you picture what it was like homeschooling two children in a tiny home with a baby alongside the madness? **INSERT CRYING-PULLING-OUT-HAIR-EMOJI HERE**