"That's our new home!" Chip said, beaming with pride at his purchase. "What? You are crazy. We are not living on a houseboat." It quickly dawned on me that this wasn't a joke and Chip wasn't even close to kidding. I wasn't mishearing him. He was dead serious about making that boat our home for the next six months. I just about lost it. "How can we live on the water, Chip? Three of our kids don't even know how to swim!" --