Well, here we are, back in the real world again. Patrick and I (as per our usual pattern) have already started planning next summers adventures :) We've just come off a fantastic summer, and it looks to be a fantastic fall, and here we are planning next years fun. We do this every year...we sit and talk about all the fun we've had, and then our reminiscing inevitably turns to things we wish we could do...
We wish we could both teach on Douglas Lake Ranch http://www.douglaslake.com/location.htm. They have a small, teeny tiny little school there that has, oh I don't know, maybe 12 students. Think about it! 2 teachers and 12 students, K-12 school, hmmmm.....if they'd hire us then they'd have 3 extra students, so that would up their enrollment by something around 20%! not bad I'm thinkin'! I love Douglas Lake and we wish we could live there and be cowboys/teachers. (reality tries to kick in my dream door and remind me that cowboys likely have to work dang hard for their living, and my "delicate flower" syndrome would not survive it..but I resist and refuse to listen to reality - it is my dream after all)
We also wish that we could go live out by Bella Coola http://www.bcadventure.com/adventure/explore/cariboo/cities/bella.htm and say adios to the real world and live like the Wilderness family... (I know...delicate flower and all that....but I'm sure I could adapt and be a hardy flower - like the crocus or something - quit snickering)
I'd like to say that we sit around and wish for peace on earth and an end to world hunger...but...not so much. Most of our wishing is entirely selfish. Now and again we think to include our children and wish that they'd quit growing up and just stay this way for a while, or we wish we could pick out their spouses for them, just to make sure...but mostly we just wish that we could always stay this happy and that life won't throw us any more curve balls.
So knowing that life is full of curve balls, we try hard to soak up all the good stuff, in hopes that it'll carry us through some of the bad stuff.
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I haven't been here in ... forever!! I love dreaming. Dreaming with my hubby. Sometimes I wonder why we don't make our dreams come true. Because we could ...
I'm in the real world tonight baby ... just finished practicing piano while K screamed and Dale fooled around in the kitchen 'supposedly' cleaning up (I just got my socks all wet in the puddles he left on the floor). Oh yeah .. reality is SO overrated.
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