Lots of things have been happening and I need to write it down! For a while now (probably a couple of years) Matt and I have been feeling like it was time for a change, but we were having a hard time figuring out exactly what we wanted to do. It all kinda started with getting our van and putting a bed in it. That opened up our minds to all sorts of possibilities. We knew that we loved traveling and that it brought us and our family closer together. But there are so many places out there that we want to see that are just a little too far away. Like when we went to Oregon and it took four days of driving to get there and back.... We just wanted to be closer to these things we want to see.
So it kinda started with us joking about living in our van. I told Matt I could live in an RV, but I didn't think I could live in a van with kids.. But that's kind of where all the thoughts started. But we knew that whatever we did we wanted to have our third baby first. I wanted to be in Utah with our insurance and doctors for that. So things kind of got put on hold.
And then came a really, really hard pregnancy. We couldn't do anything cause I was so sick the whole time. It was a super stressful time of life.. Pregnancy, Matt's job, and a house with endless projects to be done were really weighing on us. And all this happened during what I'm sure had to be the longest winter of all time (and we were basically sick the whole winter). We knew that some things needed to change, so we started bouncing around ideas. We basically never talked about anything else.
Ultimately we decided that we would sell our home and get a remote job. That decision is the one thing that hasn't changed. We have been through lots and lots of versions of "the plan" as we like to call it. At first the plan was to buy some property somewhere cool as soon as we sold the house and then build a house on it. (not a normal house either, we had some super cool ideas that maybe we will do someday) But as we talked about that I was super pregnant and miserable and I couldn't stand the thought of more work and more headaches and more stress. I needed a break! So we landed on renting for a while. We would find month to month apartments in places that we wanted to check out and live all over for a little while just to see where we wanted to end up.
The plan continues to evolve, but more or less we will have our base camp be the farm and we will travel around and try and find out where we want to end up. We still want to buy some property somewhere cool, but I don't know how long it will take us to get there. We still have a lot of work to get to where we can do what we want to do. Sell our house, get a new job, build our dream van.. ya know, minor details. But we have come a long ways from when this was all just a dream.
We had our Luci baby which was the first step. The moment we came out of the newborn fog we started to tell people what we wanted to do. Guys. I was SO scared to tell people! I'm not sure why. I just really hate disappointing people and I was scared that some part of all this would be a disappointment to our family. I mean selling our house and getting a new job are some big life steps and I didn't know how our family would react.. but guess what? Everyone was SO loving and supportive and just excited for us! It made me realize that you should go for your dreams. Don't worry about what people think because more likely then not people will just support you!
So as soon as we told our immediate family we called our realtor (actually we may have called him first haha) We told him we wanted to sell and got our first meeting all set up. We were serious! and it was crazy for things to finally be put into motion. Well selling a house (especially one that needs as much work as ours) is quite the process and will probably need a post all of its own.. But we are super excited for things to come and it has been really cool to watch things fall into place! We feel like the Lord has been telling us through things working out that this is what he wants us to be doing. So there is the first of what I hope will be lots of posts to come. (I'm terrible at keeping up with a blog, but I really want to remember all this!)
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