Family time

In considering our current project, and looking at the other people who have built or are building yurts from scratch, I see one stand out difference. That our project is a family project and not a bachelor project. I mean to say that the stories I have read up to this point seem to be those of the single guy constructing a yurt in his spare time. I feel that one perspective we have to offer in this journey is how do you do this as a family unit? How do we incorporate family time into what can be an all consuming project? What choices do we make to facilitate togetherness during and throughout this process?

It is easy to get caught up in the project. There is so much research to do, so many places to check out, that we can end up going non stop for several days in a row. This last week has been particularly crazy with Juliana sick and then Luna sick. We were rushing around gather tool donations, rushing around to check out trucks. All of this in the midst of our normal, already full, school and work schedules. We both stopped tonight and, 5 month old daughter Luna permitting, crashed out on the couch for a few. It felt pretty great. I feel like we are accomplishing a lot but we are also going in lots of different directions. Juliana especially has been pulling extra time with Luna so that I can run project related errands. We need to set some time aside to decompress now and then. We also need to set aside some time for Juliana to get away on her own.