“Someday, ride elephant!” Bea loves holding a photo of Frank and I riding Mashumbi in Zambia and wishing for a similar adventure. Ever since “someday” entered her vocabulary, Bea wonders about the future: Someday she’ll ride a pony; Someday she’ll go to the park; Someday she’ll go the yogurt shop on a daddy-daughter date; Someday she’ll sleep in a tent and go for a hike.
So much of our lives takes place instantly in the Now. Between toddler-time, the immediacy of social media, and the general urgency of life, I forget to stop and wish for the future. Frank and I used to look through travel books and dream of the places we would visit…someday. We haven’t done that in quite a while. There’s a balance – because someday never actually comes, it can be easy to get stuck in the dreaming phase. Someday turns into new furnaces, preschool tuition, and small getaways that never add up to a big adventure.
I know that this season – of kids and mortgages and small adventures – is precious and passes so quickly. But as I do my best to live in the moment and savor the Now, I want to keep the hope and wonder of Someday alive.
Here are some of the things I want to do Someday:
1. Visit Antarctica
2. Explore Chicago and spend an afternoon at the Art Institute
3. Become an expert in… Something…
4. Go on a polar safari
5. Work with an organization that advocates for a better world
What would you like to do someday?
Annie Rim 
Nice list!
I have been getting through some of mine in recent years – starting my own business, getting married, going to Iceland and to Croatia, and most recently, having a baby.
Still on the list are going to New Zealand, living in the Scottish Borders, getting good enough at my photography to have a wedding or a session published on blog or magazine form and going fishing. 🙂
I love your list! Travel while Bethany is tiny – so much easier!! 😉 Colorado has amazing fly fishing. You guys could stay with us….!
Great read, and it’s amazing that Bea has already grasped the multiple concepts of “someday”: the future, the hope, and the action to be taken. My someday is to have my mental illness under control. My sweetie has done a lot to bring me closer to this, I am very blessed 🙂
Love your support system!!