I’ve been thinking. Yes, sometimes I do get a moment of mental clarity to actually sort our my thoughts. Usually is occurs around the time I am closing my eyes to go to sleep, mind still racing, small chubby cheek pressed up against my breast, a tangle of arms and legs below the blanket and not a pen or pad of paper anywhere in reach. These are the times I treasure though, when I can just think.

Sometimes it’s about the past and things I’ve done, and thinking of ways I might have been able to do them differently and wondering what the outcome would have been. But mostly I think about the future and what I’m going to do. About the dream we have to buy a boat, and travel down the west cost with our growing family until we hit the Panama Canal, eating our way through different cultures and writing about it. Then turning tail and heading up the East Coast to do the same thing there, stopping in the Caribbean for awhile and seeing where the tide takes us. Since our plan is to homeschool our children, the learning potentials are awesome and I can’t imagine what the experience would be like for them.

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