It’s today! It’s today! It’s today! I have been holding the dream of renovating a school bus and taking our family of nine on the road since we first became a family of nine. That was a long time ago. Half of our babies are grown and gone now, and as the years passed I found other, more attainable, dreams to fill my heart with. I happily followed schoolie and roadschool families and found joy in their journies. I’ve gotten to do pretty much everything I ever dreamed. I wanted to marry @doughaguejr and make a von Trapp-style life for our combined six daughters. He filled out home with music, and I filled it with hippie-magic and tea parties and read-alouds. I wanted just one more baby—maybe a little boy 💛. I wanted to travel with my big family and our little boy who became the glue that tied us all together. And so one day we got to move to Guam. And then I wanted a farm, and the universe somehow rearranged itself to give us ten acres and a 113 year old farmhouse in very rural Kansas. My heart’s desire has been heard a lot, and so the fact that our kids were growing and moving away, and my husband’s job still couldn’t accommodate school bus renos or road-schooling, were things that I accepted. No need to be greedy when life has treated me so, so, very well. But deeeeep down, I always held onto a picture of us bopping down the road in our homemade RV. By happy coincidence (I don’t actually believe in coincidence) on Mother’s Day morning we found a bus for sale. It was perfect. My husband retires from the Army in a year, and we still have a few littles who are up for hitting the road. And it’s today. And we are eating sun-warmed watermelon and yanking out bus seats. And my heart is soaring with gratitude and wonder at how I got to be so very lucky. (You can shop this pic by clicking the link in my bio or snapping a screenshot if you’re a @liketoknow.it user 😉) liketkit http://liketk.it/3hWZZ