Without fail we fail, we in love with our house every single Spring. Give us an opportunity to bust open the windows and eat outside and we’re having a love-fest with it. I don’t desire to have a larger house, but after the long months of Winter, and we can finally fling open the doors, our house suddenly feels like we built on an expansion. I love our yard and the freedom that it gives us.
Being here, in the good old PNW, is super easy when the weather is nice, but this year we have a bit more of an itch to get out and do something. I told my mom that Barry and I had the ‘come to Jesus conversation’ about our plans and she laughed, but I think she also understood it. With me being pregnant/working and then having a newborn, we were in a holding pattern with not much else on the horizon – we didn’t know what to expect with Audrey and so our schedule was utterly cleared.
Now that Audrey is here, and she is almost 4 months old, we’re getting a bit of an itch to move beyond our little pod. We’ve got a some smaller trips planned here and there, but we sat down and looked at the BIG PICTURE. Barry and I are both nerds when it comes to plans, almost to a fault. Inevitably, we’ll make a goal (personal, family, financial, professional…) and then when the time comes to pull the trigger or complete the final stage, we adjust the goal so it is just a bit more out of our reach.
Yesterday when we started talking about our goals, our conversation stretched late into the night because we both totally geeked out talking about what we’re doing and where we’re headed. I tend not to be a huge risk taker, but I also love the idea of a good adventure and I want our girls to know more than just the town we live in and the day-to-day lives we lead. So, we chicken-scratched together a little list of things that we want to do with our Little Chickens. Things that are important to us and will hopefully be important to them. 
I’m not entirely sure what all this means because, as Barry said last night, we weren’t really sure what life was going to be like with two kids. Turns out, things with two kids is super awesome and we’re ready to get movin’ and a shakin’! For now, while we continue to have our conversations about our chicken-scratched list, we’ll enjoy what we’ve got.
The Sandy Lagoon (which, funnily enough, has never had sand in it) has been pulled out of the shed and scrubbed down, we’ve got our outside blanket/gear folded and ready to spread out, and the weather looks friendly enough these next coming days. We also have the makings for S’Mores on the off chance that we’ll muster up enough energy in the evening to have some more fires to roast ‘mallows. If I’m being honest, we’re all ready for bed time on the days that we’ve been outside most of the time….
And when the weather changes, and it will, we’ll be ready with some indoor activities and our chicken-scratch list to geek-out over.
