And the takeover continues with Christina at Tico and Tina! Enjoy her awesomeness! :D
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Have you ever laid on a blanket under a bright blue summer sky and found the pictures in the cotton candy clouds? I love to imagine landscapes with rivers and trees and mountains. Try it! You might be surprised what you can see when you look :) Imagination, uninhibited creativity, dreams... these are all things that are a part of most children's daily life, but somewhere along the way to growing up most of us seem to lose much of it.
The reality of daily life has a way of squashing our will to keep going, or in many cases to even try to begin with... it's just so much easier to live in the status quo!
My husband (who I affectionately call Mr. D) and I really want to raise our kids to look at life as an adventure, and to keep that mentality as they grow up. We want them to have an "out-of-the-box" perspective.
I think one of the most important things to living a life of adventure is having an attitude of flexibility. Life is going to be super crazy sometimes, and we either have to roll with the punches or get knocked flat.
Between midnight restaurant runs, spontaneous road trips, and winters in Costa Rica, our kids are getting quite a dose of flexibility training, LOL.
But the truth is, adventure is not just about travel or doing crazy things. Adventure is a mindset.
When your car breaks down on the side of the road and makes you late for an important meeting you can be super pissed and let it ruin your day, OR you can be thankful that it's 2012 and cell phones have already been invented. If your cell phone happens to be dead, well, figuring out what you do next? Definitely adventure material. You can be sure I'd be writing the blog post in my head as it unfolded. Kinda like I did when we got in a very unfortunate situation on this day.
We've chosen a motto for our life based on our BlankCanvas cards that Katlyn posted about here on her blog a while back.
Life is a blank canvas - paint an adventure!
We only have one chance to live today. Let's make it a beautiful paint stroke on the blank canvas of our life!
(I'm really not a cheesy person, I promise! :)
