And so we begin...

Have you ever wanted a change? Not just a little one like a new couch, a new paint colour in the bathroom, or new kitchen countertops. Not even a change like a new house or a new car. I mean a BIG change. We do. Love Vancouver island though we do, we've done it. Seen it. Been all over it.  And we're kind of bored of it. Not like we never want to come back, but we are ready to have a little adventure.

Really, we have wanted this adventure for a long time, but things kept keeping us here. Matt was in school for years, we were stuck here because of jobs, and we didn't want to move away until we were finished having babies. 

Well, now, it kind of seems like the perfect time. Which is actually really hard to believe because it always has seemed to me like "the perfect time" was a myth. But here we are. Matt recently quit his job (scary!- at first) and started his own business. It has been his dream and we just decided to jump in head first and not look back. So now that he's mobile (because it's a home-based/ web-based business) we don't need to be any one place. Our youngest baby is no longer a baby and our oldest is not quite old enough to be devastated about leaving all of his friends. Mom and Dad are still the coolest- and I'd like to hold on to that for as long as I can! 

So,  2 months from now we will be taking off. And I mean off! We will be purchasing an RV and taking the adventure of a lifetime. We plan to homeschool the kids for the remainder of the school year, which will be about 4 months. March 6th is our target day for taking off.  We will spend that time travelling and seeing the (North American) world. Hopefully our trip will take us along the coast of California (Disneyland of course is a must) through Arizona, New Mexico, and then through US to the East Coast. Definitely a New York stop for the musical theatre nuts inside all of us and then up to the Maritimes of Canada. We will be most likely ending our trip in Prince Edward Island or Nova Scotia and staying for a few years. So basically from way out west to way out East. 

So there it is. In writing. So we can't take it back. We are nervous- we are planning- we are budgeting- we are researching- but most of all we are excited! Join us on our adventure as we freewheel across the continent!