Responding to "my bucket list"
Ten years ago, when I was just 19, I wrote a short and sweet bucket list . As I celebrated the 30th of a dear friend a few weeks ago and find myself starting to think about the last year of my 3rd decade, and the traditional "things to do before your thirty" lists, this bucket list came to mind. And as I read through it, I was pleasantly surprised by how I have lived into those desires of my 19 year old self over the past ten years. At the top of my list in 2010 was a desire to "find a home of my own, either a place, a person, or a people that I can come back to time and time again." I was willing to wait on this one, but I am so grateful that I didn't have to wait too long. In 2013 I found my person and we chose to walk through life together in 2016. Since then we have built a home for ourselves in KW close to my siblings - a place . But also, through the mystery of marriage, I have come to share in the stability of his family home in Virginia - another pla...