so, where do YOU want to be in five years?

This week, our family ends a strangely discrete chapter. Exactly five years ago this week, I got pregnant with Sophie, our oldest, Paul started his post-graduation job, and we bought a car. And later that same year, we bought our land. I remember driving home from the car place in the new car and talking to my friend Pris on the phone about how strongly it felt like we were turning the page into a new life. I was a jetsetting professional, teaching in Miami Beach five times a year, yada yada, but that whole life seemed to be passing….

And here we are, exactly five years later, and I am a SAHM of two, writing novels, keeping a micro-farm. And this very week, Paul is leaving that same job (moving on to a new, spiffy job next week, that boasts an amazing 10 minute commute, vs. the 60 minute drive each way that he has done for the last five years), and the car is paid off. This week!  And of course, we’re living, now, in this house we have built–er, Paul built–on that land that was just forest five years ago.

It’s kind of weird. What the heck is in store for the next five years?