Sometimes in life, it's funny how things happen exactly how you expect, and other times it can catch you so off guard that it makes your heart either swell or crumble.
When we told our family about our new adventure, there were mixed reactions. I actually had already written a blog post about this that detailed it all, but then decided it was better to get it off my chest, but not really publish it. So instead, I'll share this...
Some members of our family proved yet again why I love them so. They weren't necessarily happy about our decision, but they were respectful, understanding, and were able to look at the situation from our viewpoint and really get where we were coming from. They have been very supportive, and I couldn't express well enough how much we appreciate that.
There were others in our family, who couldn't see outside of their small bubble of ordinary to understand anything about this adventure and instead chose to judge and have snarky attitude.
And there were others, who I expected would react this way, and were NOT happy. I almost felt attacked when trying to explain the situation, but knew there wasn't going to be any getting through to them, because there rarely ever is. It's a sad situation to me, but it seems that's the way its been for awhile now, so I do my best to make my peace with it and move on.
That actually leads me to my next thought. Last night, Aaron was expressing to me how he's been thinking about how he's really happy with where we are at in our lives. He's happy with the changes we're making, he's happy with the positive outlook in our lives, and that we've managed to get away from most negative influences. I can't tell you how much my heart sang when I heard him say that. We both try to brush off the negative and focus on the positive, and its wonderful to me that he is reflecting and seeing the difference that it is making in our lives. Ohhhhh how I love that man.
Once we got through telling the family, we spent a weekend in Des Moines for an RV show. We saw so many campers that they all starting running together in my mind. We did walk away knowing pretty much what we wanted though, so it was a success! We have it narrowed down to a few models. The other debate we have is buying new or used. If we buy new, we can get exactly what we want. If we buy used, it'll be harder to find the exact features we want and might have to settle for something else based on what's available. So basically, we know pretty much what we want, but we'll see what actually happens when it comes time to buy.
The next step was getting our house ready to sell. Surprisingly, we got it ready pretty quick. We tiled a couple bathrooms, painted a lot of trim, painted the master bath, and did a ton of touch up painting. I'm sure there's other things we did in there too, but at some point the mind becomes jumbled and you forget. The house has now been on the market for about a week. We've had three showings so far and two more scheduled in the next few days. I'm hopeful from all the activity that it'll go pretty quick and hopefully somewhat easy.
Aaron is working on purchasing a bigger truck this weekend to be able to haul our new home. We were hoping we could use his current truck, but it wouldn't have been able to hold up with the weight of hauling the fifth wheels we've been looking at.
Well that's all of the update for now. I'll try hard to keep updating as things progress!
