Wanderlust

10 days…10 days before the Hubbs and I board a plane and head to ITALY! It still seems too good to be true but my excitement and anticipation grow with each day that I check-off my calendar. For me, this is the trip of a lifetime. It’s the one place I have always wanted to travel to for as long as I can remember. I want to capture every moment of my experience not only to share it with my family and friends but also to be able to relive my experience whenever I want to. I want to be able to read this years from now only to be swept away to the streets of Rome, to taste the food, and smell the Venice air.

So, I thought I’d try out this thing they call “blogging”. Even if no one reads my posts (other than my Mom) at least I have what I like to think of as an “e-diary”. Hasn’t every young girl had a diary at some point in her life? A small decorative notebook with a cute little lock and key. That key that you would hide in a top-secret location so your parents or your younger brother couldn’t find it. My only problem was, I was so good at hiding that key I could never find it myself. I had several diaries growing up. I was never one to share my true thoughts or speak my mind even with my closest friends so I would use my diary to speak the unspeakable and unveil the unimaginable. Though most of the time, I would just scribble the name of my weekly crush. Today, my diaries or journals are a bit more mature and directly addressed to God. In a new world of everything digital, everyone wants to share their thoughts, feelings, views, and concerns with the world. Unfortunately, those expressions are not always positive. I may not always get it right but I strive to be a positive individual and surround myself with positivity. I pray that my posts here will reflect that.

When I brought up the idea of creating a blog for our upcoming trip to my husband Tim he gave me a crazy look and gave a sarcastic response like only he can…”I can’t wait for you to read it to me”. Meaning: “I don’t know why you would waste your time writing about a trip when a picture says everything. Who has time to read? But Baby, you seem excited about it so I’ll let you read your posts to me while I’m falling asleep at night and pretend to be interested.” I guess I just figured what better way to answer the question of “how was your trip” than with a blog. We booked this trip as a celebratory trip but I also want to use this trip as a time for reflection. A time to escape from the regular schedule of life to reflect on myself, my relationship with God, being a mother and my relationship with my husband after ten years of marriage. I anticipate this trip will bring a lot of laughter, over-eating, getting lost, and exhaustion but I’m pumped! In the meantime, I’ll be brushing up on my Italian…ANDIAMO!!! Thanks for joining me!

Wanderlust: n. a strong desire for or impulse to wander or travel and explore the world