Committing.
For obvious reasons I've been thinking about life and death a lot over the past few weeks. More specifically, I've been thinking a lot about the decisions and plans people make when they think they are going to die, or when they get a second chance at life. Plans to jump out of planes, to travel to far away places and to follow dreams and loves.
It's got me thinking about how I want to live my life and that I don't want to wait for something catastrophic to happen before I realise my dreams and live my life to the fullest.
So what do I really want to do?
I really want to go on this caravan adventure we've been planning. I really want to commit to going. To get excited and make plans and let go of the guilt and fear that's holding me back.
Yep, I feel guilty.
Why do we deserve to take off on a four to six month holiday?
We're just coming out of the worst organic farming season we've experienced since we've been here. We've only been doing the
Daylesford
Organics thing for 10 years. People wait their entire working lives to take such a trip. And we're leaving the farmer boys behind to work on our property while we go on holidays...
And I'm scared.
How am I ever going to get this house organised and clean enough to leave it to another family? What if our itinerary is too ambitious? What if my children drive me crazy? What if I run out of yarn? What if someone gets a cough or snores and I never get to sleep? What if it rains and rains and we are stuck in the caravan for days? What if something bad happens at home? What if
Indi and Jazzy fall too far behind at school and have troubles next year...
Ok, now I've
written it all down I'm leaving it here and moving on. From now on I'm going to be enthusiastic and excited. Tomorrow I'll write a to-do list and over the next 40
ish days I'm going to work through it.
I am really going to try not going to coast through my life any more and I certainly don't want to wait until something bad happens to live my life to the fullest.
I know for sure that if I were to write a list here of all the positives of our travel plans, I could fill four blog posts.
So let the adventures begin!
Have a fabulous week y'all.
PS. The top two pics are of the vintage sheet pillow case I made my Dad. I'm about to retire to the couch to crochet the edge of Farmer Bren's which is the same.
The third pic is of our heart shaped Melbourne afternoon waiting for our
la'heart'tes and
h'eart' chocolates with my folks in the city this afternoon.