The truth is, vacations and spending quality time together as a family are important. But coming home to a place that you’re excited to live and living a life that you don’t feel you need a vacation from is a dream come true!

This trip is different because we have let go. We have let go of planning “the perfect trip.” We have let go of making sure every minute is accounted for and, instead, letting every minute count. We have let go of planning fun things to do, and, instead, we are simply having fun.

We never dreaded a day, not even a Monday, when we were on vacation.


We wanted that life—a life we could live like we were on vacation.

And isn’t that true about anything in life? You expect things to go a certain way, and it just doesn’t. You think you’ve made the right preparations, and you haven’t. You envision things going a certain way, but it goes another way instead.

Dreaming again did come with its obstacles. We had to remove all of the “what-ifs” and “you can’ts” that continued to creep into our thoughts and plans.

I wanted to say yes so many times. I remember thinking we have the time to do some of the things we wanted to do but we didn’t have the money. Or we’d have the money but not the time. It just never seemed to work out to where we had both.

Really, this is not a story about moving to the mountains. This is a story about having the faith that could move mountains.

It was in that pause that we could finally breathe and ask ourselves, how do we really want to spend our time?

We had gotten so caught up in doing so many things when what we really wanted was to just undo the mess we had created.

As we continued to work hard and reach our goals, we were praying like never before. For the first time in years, we not only prayed hard, but we prayed with each other.

Then we talked about what we could change. What we could simplify. How we could slow down.

We learned we had to communicate about our finances, we had to look at the ugly mess we were in, and we had to be on the same page and work together.

This is the place where we were led.

This is the house we will call home.

Turns out, it was more than we need. Turns out, it wasn’t one of the things we truly desire in life.

Unbinded Life has come to us as a way to express what we are thinking, what we are feeling and what we are now doing…freeing ourselves from the things that keep us held down.

I don’t want my kids to think leaving home in the dark to return in the dark is a goal worth achieving.