I definitely did not have living in an RV on my bingo card for this year or for my life ever really. But sometime in the last 2-3 years we decided that we would eventually move back to Texas — something I also didn’t have on my life bingo card. And sometime early this year, we decided that moving back sooner made more sense than later.
That’s how I found myself following Kendall as he drove our new-to-us motor home and the jeep that came with it down the highway and back to the apartment. My job was to follow him and let him know if the Jeep came unattached or if smoke starting billowing out from somewhere. (I love how he always imagines and plans for the absolute worst, and I’m also grateful that it almost never happens, but I know that if it does, he’s already solved the problem 10 different ways. Me, I’m more of a figure it out as you go kind of person.)
“I can’t believe we own a motor home.” He said after he parked it.
“I can’t either.”
We both laughed. It all just seems so crazy.
And speaking of crazy, not only are we moving back to Texas and living in a motor home, but we’re parking it within a few hundred feet of my parents front door. Love you, Mom and Dad, but definitely didn’t have moving back home with the parents on my life bingo card.
I can’t decide it I’m excited or scared. And that goes for all three things — moving back to Texas, living in an RV, and being so close to the folks.
The main reason we decided to move back to Texas was so that we could be closer to family. I just don’t think we originally planned on being so close, ya know?
Anyways, Kendall got a new job, which will have him traveling all over Texas, which is partly why we decided to buy and move into an RV. I might get to travel with him. We’re gonna trial it for a year and see how it goes.
If I’m traveling with him a lot then, heck, it might just be our home for awhile. If it turns out, I stay home more than I go, than we might build a little cottage. It will also be a few hundred feet from the parents front door.
I’ve thrown out my bingo card. Life has gone nothing like I’d hoped or planned, and I’m mostly okay with that.
Sometimes it can be more exciting and fun when you figure it out as you go.
What I can tell you is that I all I can think about is how I’m going to redecorate the RV, the future floor plan and style of our someday cottage, and how I’m gonna go full on granny gardener mode and transform my parents yard and make up for not having one for most of our married life.
Yeah, I’m a little nervous, but mostly I think I’m excited. The one thing I haven’t taken off my bingo card is fun, and I think this is gonna be fun.
