One Week Until the Journey Begins!

We leave in one week. 7 days. 168 hours. There aren't enough minutes to do everything I feel like I need to get done before I step out of the door. There is packing that has been put off because we still have "time" (tick-tock, tick-tock). There are decisions to be made about what will stay and what will go. There is the feeling of a need to go around my house and mentally tell it good-bye. I'd moved 20 times by my 30th birthday and never quite felt this way before. I think it's because I'm leaving so much behind, my kitchen, my Animal Kingdom Lodge office, my scrap room...all of these spaces I put so much of myself into to get them just so and now, they will be empty.

Then there is the guilt. Ripping my 10yo away from her new BFF has been the one dark spot in this adventure. This will prove to be a valuable lesson for them and for me, however. No matter what happens in life, the people you love and who love you will always be there for you. There are ways to maintain friendships, especially in this wondrous day and age of technology. For me, I continue to learn that grown-ups have to make hard decisions that sometimes upset their children and following one's dreams is NOT necessarily selfish. Don't postpone your dreams.