Fall Creek Falls: beautiful camping option close to Nashville

It's been about a month since we've settled into our new Nashville casa.

Do we miss being on the road?

We miss the travels and the sights, but not the constant coordination and planning of being on the move.

Do we like setting roots and being in one place?

We love digging into a new community and building new friendships, but not juggling the weighty stewardship of all the stuff that comes with a suburban life: programming sprinklers, killing weeds, finding a plumber to fix leaky faucets, dusting, hunting carpenter bees in our deck rails, sorting mail, paying bills, gymnastics lessons, clogged toilets... well, you get the picture.

Ahhh, the battle between those nasty pros and cons rages constantly. And the only real way we've found to squelch the back and forth is to rest in gratitude.

So that's what we do, or aim to do, everyday. Some days we're more successful than others.

We realized, after a few weeks of setting up shop in Nashville, that we would have to actively guard all the lessons we learned while on the road. Against what, you may wonder?

Well, we've found that monotony and a sense of always being overcommitted can be some hard-core life drainers while setting roots in suburbia.

{Side note: What's sucking the life out of you today?}

Isn't it amazing how you can fill a whole weekend with:

appointments
meetings
lessons
errands
and events in a matter of seconds?

If anything, one of the main lessons we learned on the road was this:

YOU get to step into courage everyday, dream big, and CREATE your life. You get to fill it with the things that matter to you, and you get to leave whitespace for the things that energize you.

How?

Say no to many of the good events and opportunities flying your way everyday. And make a plan to do what you're really wanting to do.

So, in staying true to our goals, we're peppering our life with fun, experiences, culture, trips, nature, with daring greatly...things that decimate monotony and recharge us.