This week I celebrate 3 years as a full-time housesitter and it got me thinking about home and what it means to me. I am a homebody and I like being at home. When I began the housesitting lifestyle three years ago my housemate remarked: “but you like home!” I do, and the two can exist together.

Home is the place where I become grounded again after being out in the world. It’s the place to rest, to recharge, to prepare. It’s the place to entertain and hang out when I want to. It’s the place where I can move, and get things done, and stretch out and do nothing, and be creative. It’s the space to just “be”.

Home doesn’t have to be big to be spacious. Spaciousness can be created. Free of clutter and frustrations, to get what I need without having to rearrange a whole stack of things first; this is spaciousness! I continue to live by the old adage of “a place for everything and everything in its place”. It was a savior during the very busy time of bringing up a family and running several businesses. Without it I was swamped by everything that needed to be done, unable to relax or to enjoy my life and the people in it. “A place for everything and everything in its place” is especially necessary with a housesitting lifestyle.  A few tweaks and I have arrived!

I like tidy and I like clean. I well remember the times when all I did was clean and I couldn’t go out until it was perfect. With a family and a busy life that was a lot of pressure, every day. When did I let go of that? When I did it later in the day I had more time and I could be in the moment with it. This made it an experience I could enjoy, not a chore I had to endure! The bigger reframe was not that I was late getting it done; I was actually ahead for tomorrow.

Home is thoroughly enjoying your space, in your way, to serve you. My lifestyle may not be for everybody but being “at home”, wherever you are, is.

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