Wednesday, April 1, 2009

Know what it feels like to wake up on a Sunday morning in your 10 year old bed, next to your hubby of 12 years with a bunch of kids between you? Knowing that once you get out of bed you will make breakfast, then lunch, then hubby will walk the dog, you´ll take the kids to visit grandma and at the end of the day you´ll contemplate for a very short time what to have for dinner, before deciding on pizza? Probably even with the same toppings as last time, and the time before that. Knowing that this is pretty much the track of your life? Marked by some unwritten rules about the convienience of routine and the "easy way out".

Every week, sometimes every day and lately almost every hour I vow to myself to break out of habit. "Just do it" is a phrase I would use a lot, until I came across this article called "Why didn´t Nike just do it?" and I thought maybe it isn´t so easy after all.

But "not so easy" does not mean "not doable", right? And so I continue to seek inspiration. Try to convince myself that travelling around the world with 5 kids is a real option. Not an easy task I can tell you. First I was amazed and inspired by http://www.soultravelers3.com/ but had to admit that while these people are way too cool, kind and fun to follow, they aren´t exactly in the "same boat" as we are since they only have 1 daughter. But then they told me about http://blogs.bootsnall.com/kiwifamily/ a family with 8 (!!!!!!!!!!!!!) children and a grandpa travelling the world and now I seriously have an itch....

1 comment:

  1. Wow this is awesome. I can't even travel to the grocery store with my son without it being an ordeal. lol

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