A couple of weeks after we got back from our vacation in Akumal, I asked my husband about the condo again and he said he’d take a look.  I was full of nervous apprehension.

My husband is an engineer and while I love his analytical, thoughtful, planned, big beautiful brain, sometimes our stars don’t align.  I am more of a dreamer I guess.  I like to think up big plans and throw around crazy ideas.  Start a food truck, open a cupcake shop, rent an RV and travel around the country for a year. Those all sound legit right?  Truth be told, I would rock a food truck, but I am a terrible baker!  And an RV?  What was I thinking?  Sometimes my kids can’t even make it to the mall and back without fighting and that is 7 miles away not to mention the fact that 3 of us get car sick…really car sick!  He’s a good listener though. He will patiently hear me out before calmly bringing me back down to reality.  Buzzkill right?  I’ll admit, sometimes I don’t want to be so reasonable.  Who doesn’t dream of throwing caution to the wind and recklessly pursuing (insert wild idea here).  This is exactly why I need him.  Today the idea of traveling around in and RV sounds TERRIBLE!  Thankfully we dodged that bullet.  Ok, that wasn’t actually a bullet we dodged because I think his response when I mentioned the RV was a resounding, “Hell no!”  But I am grateful.  It is his practicality that has gotten us to where we are today and it’s the only reason we are able to consider a condo purchase.

So about that.  The Friday after he said he would “look into it”, we were sitting in our local Mexican restaurant having dinner with our daughter.   I know you are thinking, “She took him there on purpose to get him thinking all things Mexico!”  Yes, that would have been an amazing idea and I wouldn’t put it past me.  But, in all honestly, we go there just about every Friday, so I can’t take credit.  As it turns out, he HAD been doing some research of his own. I was shocked! Surely he couldn’t think this was a good idea. When I picked my chin up off the floor and got ahold of my excitement level, I suggested we make a pro’s and con’s list.  I’m thinking we will have a robust conversation about learning a new culture and language, creating a slower way of life etc. etc.  Nope.  He simply had 1 pro and 1 con.  And they were the SAME!  Timing.

Pro: Timing is good to make an investment in an area that is slowly growing before it starts rapidly growing and drives the costs up.

Cons: Timing in our life isn’t ideal as we have 2 kids in college, a 10 year old at home,  temporary custody of our 3 year old granddaughter (a story for another day) and are just shy of the age where we should be thinking about retirement.  Well he is just shy…I am WAY shy but hey, if he retires and moves to Mexico, he surely is going to take me with him.  Right?

I thought for sure that was the end of the conversation, but he continued to talk more about what he had learned about the area and about how intrigued he was.  He mentioned we should go check out the area in person.  Could it be that this man who I love so dearly was going to consider this?  Hhhmm….interesting.  That opened a whole new world of possibility in my eyes.

Those that know my husband well know that he is terrible with names and an even worse speller, but has whole arsenal of obscure lines from random movies and can usually find ways to interject them appropriately into conversations.  This is a gift I do not have and I get really excited when I can remember a movie line at all let alone deliver it with comedic timing.   So I scored a lot of points in my own head when I ended the conversation with:

“So you’re saying there’s a chance?”

That night I started to make travel plans.