So, one thing I have learned about my dear husband (DH) after nearly 20 years of togetherness, is that he is all about the action.
As soon as we had put it out there that we might want to take 6 months off work and travel around NZ in a campervan, he was ON IT. Trade Me, night after night. Comparisons of water volume, solar power, campervans vs caravans, storage space, sleeping arrangements, yahdeeyahdeeyahdah.
We had a humble budget for a camper, so we narrowed it down to a fairly dated, extraordinarily high kms campervan that was available for viewing in Grey Lynn.
We trotted along to view it. Exciting! It seemed real once we were standing inside the camper looking at the over cab bed that would serve our precious boy (PB) on our adventure.
DH is a wheeler dealer from way back and offered the seller a much reduced from window price offer. The next potential purchasers arrived for their viewing and the seller put us off and didn't accept our low offer.
In the meantime, a much newer, more spacious, very comfortable CARAVAN came up for sale in Papamoa. Not one to unduly delay matters, DH backed up PB and the next door neighbour (a very valued expert of all things caravan) and headed to the Bay of Plenty to view.
On the way home, towing the newly purchased caravan, DH receives a call from the seller of the aged Grey Lynn campervan reconsidering our initial offer.
"He who hesitates is lost..."
And we now have a caravan!! EEEEEKKK!
Wednesday, 21 September 2016
How it all began...
Earlier in 2016, dear husband (DH) and I decided to create a 5 year plan. We broke it into 5 big buckets: Family, Health, Career, Finance and Recreation.
We came up with lots of cool ideas:
DH: Do more fishing! Do more diving!
ME: Exercise more! Cut the mortgage in half!
Ok, DH husband came up with lots of cool ideas, I came up with more conservative concepts. :-/ It's alright, I have come to terms with my nerdiness.
As a full time working Mum of a three year old, I am conscious of the limited time I have with my precious boy. (PB) I am also conscious that the pre-school formative years are critical in the development of a small person and I have a strong desire to play a significant part. As a family, we made the decision that one of us would stay at home with our PB until he goes to school and that means that DH is stay at home Dad, a job that he totally owns.
One day, we were venturing down country on a road trip, when I suggested to DH how cool it would be to take a career break and pack up our lives into a campervan and travel around NZ with our boy. The idea was so fun to dream about - it kept us entertained for much of the journey.
When it came to the 5 year plan, it seemed like a no brainer that we should do something amazing as a family before PB started school. He's going to be in school in less than 2 years time, and then he'll be a school boy for around 14 years. I still have about 25 years of work stretching out ahead of me and so 6 months is an insignificant period when you think of it in those terms!
Weeeell... Insignificant until you are about to knock on the door of the boss to ask for 6 months leave without pay, that is!
We came up with lots of cool ideas:
DH: Do more fishing! Do more diving!
ME: Exercise more! Cut the mortgage in half!
Ok, DH husband came up with lots of cool ideas, I came up with more conservative concepts. :-/ It's alright, I have come to terms with my nerdiness.
As a full time working Mum of a three year old, I am conscious of the limited time I have with my precious boy. (PB) I am also conscious that the pre-school formative years are critical in the development of a small person and I have a strong desire to play a significant part. As a family, we made the decision that one of us would stay at home with our PB until he goes to school and that means that DH is stay at home Dad, a job that he totally owns.
One day, we were venturing down country on a road trip, when I suggested to DH how cool it would be to take a career break and pack up our lives into a campervan and travel around NZ with our boy. The idea was so fun to dream about - it kept us entertained for much of the journey.
When it came to the 5 year plan, it seemed like a no brainer that we should do something amazing as a family before PB started school. He's going to be in school in less than 2 years time, and then he'll be a school boy for around 14 years. I still have about 25 years of work stretching out ahead of me and so 6 months is an insignificant period when you think of it in those terms!
Weeeell... Insignificant until you are about to knock on the door of the boss to ask for 6 months leave without pay, that is!
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