Dreams

I'm a dreamer.  My husband is a realist.  Well, he likes to believe he is a realist.  I think more accurately, his dreams lie close to home, where as mine take me around the country, the world.  Well, that's not entirely true either, my biggest dreams are right at home as well, with him and Liam.

What i'm getting at is that my husband would be content to rarely travel and maintain a steady routine throughout his life.  There is absolutely nothing wrong with that.  I love that he is steady and regular.  He is someone i can count on as always being consistent.  I like to believe that i am his wild.  I am his adventure.  So with that, i'd like to make a list of place to see and visit in the coming years.  And to please my homebody husband, i'll also list our home plans, dreams and visions.

Adventures:

Alaska 

Family Trip when Liam is older

Belize

Maybe just a husband/wife trip

Montana & Yellowstone National Park

Famliy Trip when Liam is older

Michigan - Great Lakes & Henry Ford Museum

Family Trip

Colonial Williamsburg (again)

Family Trip or Husband/Wife (depending on Liam's age)

Florida (non-Disney)

Family

Florida (Disney)

Family

Europe (Germany, England, France)

Later on - maybe retirement or around our 50's.

Costa Rica

Family

Yearly Camping Trips

Family!

At home, we've already built quite the little homestead.  We've gardened, rotated garden locations, planted fruit trees and bushes and had an abundance of strawberries.  Gardening was always exciting and fun to begin with, then a ton of work to keep up with.  I love to can and preserve our produce.  Last summer was super hard to keep up with it, while Jas was working nights and Liam was in the deep of ear infections.  After it became too much for us, we decided that this growing season, we're going to participate in a CSA.  It's the farm right up the road, that i love to support weekly.  I can get bushels of tomatoes and cucumbers when i want to can.  But i can do it at my pace, when i have the time.  I'm feeling so good about this move.

We built a sugar house and last spring boiled for the first time in it.  It was so neat to see one of my husband's biggest hobbies come to life in our dooryard.  Our plans for now are to keep our current tap count and in the coming years put the lines around our house on vacuum.  We also need to build a lean-to off the back of the sugar house to store and protect the oil tanks, tractors and all the maple supplies.  

We built our house without a back deck or finish on our chimney.  Last summer Jason dug out an area behind our house to put down the stone bedding to build the deck.  We'd like to build that and get our chimney finally finished.

Our basement remains unfinished, and i think it will stay that way until we have a barn/garage to house all the chainsaws and firewood inhabiting it's space.  Later, into our 50's Jason plans to build a huge saltwater aqarium in the basement family room.  In January he built a smallish one for upstairs, which he's enjoyed testing and keeping up with.

February is a good month for dreams and plans.