..I don't really need anything and I really don't want anything, yet I find the 'want bug' is always with me!

 I have told my children I don't need this big four bedroom house, just me alone, and that I would be happy in the one room pool house in the country where the big house burned.

 But what are you going to do with all this 'stuff' you have Mom? asked my son. I look around at all the things I have accumulated over the years and know I have a problem. Things that belonged to my grandparents, the furniture my Dad made when he was young, the dinning set we bought fifty-three years ago when we married, all the nick-knacks I have treasured through the years, what will become of all of it?

 I'll give it away!

 He laughs, I can't help but join him, knowing that was a rash statement, but eventually something will have to be done with all these things anyway, so I push on. I want to give it up and simply my life, scale down where I can retain my independence and take care of myself!

Okay, we will move you to the pool house and put all your things in storage. Pick out what you want to use and we will do the rest!

 Fine, I am excited. Now lets see, we will have to build on a laundry room and add a big walkin shower, and I want to make the front porch larger and we may have to add a bedroom on, as you know I will have guests from time to time....and I would really like to have a place to keep some of the old furniture and maybe the dinning room things,,,,,,,,,