How Did this Even Happen?

How did this even happen? Did you just wake up one day and say “we have got to change something?”

Well, yes and no.

15 years ago Matt and I sat down and made a To Do List. We were newlyweds, no kids, and a dog. We had lots of dreams. Buy our first home, have lots of boys. What else did we wish for? A trip around the world, hiking the Appalachian Trail. Being the realist, and major budgeter I am we started saving. Putting away money each month, so that when the time came we could check some of these items off our list.

We bought the house, we had the kids and Matt hit the 20 year mark in his industry. We were just plugging along. Content. We were grateful. And so we kept plugging along. Then Matt had just turned 40 and he started to get restless. 150 nights traveling a year, hotels and airport stays during preschool graduation programs and first days of school. The realization that day after day, week after week, we were working on the dreams we had built for ourselves 15 years earlier. We had certainly changed over that time. Our goals had changed but we were still just plugging along at them like a well oiled machine. And really, the path of least resistance is easy. We were comfortable. All was well until the day we sat down to make our new To Do List. More time together, traveling, almost all of our goals were different. We needed to refocus our laser point. Once you know better, you do better. And there it all began…….

xoxo- Jess