{ I’m taking a small break from the Europe re-cap posts… I’ll get back to those soon with stories of our time in beautiful Roma! }

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Lately, I have felt like I am at a “in-between” place in my life.  Funnel and I will be celebrating four years of marriage this fall, so we aren’t newlyweds anymore, but we also probably won’t be starting our family for a couple of years either.    And now that we have the house and the Europe trip checked off our list, I sometimes feel like I am in a holding pattern, waiting for the next “big thing”.   But I don’t want to have that attitude.  I don’t want to live (waste?) my life like I am  only waiting for the next big thing to come along. 

I saw this in Carolyn Hax’s daily column a few weeks ago:

When I was single, childless and careerless, a friend said, “What are the things you won’t have time for, once relationship/child/job come along? Get busy doing those, and relish them. The day will come when you’ll realize what a gift this waiting time was.”

So I relished. I hiked, I biked, I sewed, I decorated, I read books, I played music, I danced, I hung out with friends, I cruised thrift stores.

It took a long time for the things on my list to come to me. And now I’m so glad I took the opportunities my “waiting time” gave me — because now, I don’t see it as waiting time, but time that I used to enjoy all those things that are now so hard to find time for now.

 Reading that made me realize how lucky we are to have this time to travel and work on projects and pursue a lot of dreams and hobbies we might not be able to once we are parents.   This is a really neat season of our life and I’m sure once we are parents we may miss the freedom and opportunites we have now. 

How I’d like to live this out in the next couple of years:
   – Take all of the Wilton cake decorating courses this coming year
   – Take one of CCAD’s adult art classes this winter
   – Finish up the quilts I started making for our quest bedroom
   – Become better at sewing and cooking
   – Grow vegetables in raised beds next spring & summer
   – Make and can jam, pickles, and tomato sauce
   – Go on another “big” trip in fall 2011
   – Have some fun weekends away with Funnel
   – Finish writing my children’s story
   - Take Yoga classes
   - Schedule “me” time every week, even if it’s just an hour at the coffee shop with a good book

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