Show me the ‘numbers’!

“As long as we continue to travel” – that’s what I told him. I mean- really, do we have to go through this again? When we made the decision to move to the city, we made it knowing that he needed to return to country living at some point. City girl, country boy, mountain man, island girl – how the heck was this supposed to work? But the bargain was set early on, we would have our home base in a simple cottage in the woods to return to from our extensive travels – we hope. Except I didn’t think it would happen this fast, I was thinking maybe two to three years from now, closer to when the Kteen was going to graduate; so when he started looking for land I was sort of rolling my eyes as I went along with it. But then he started getting obsessed and then getting on my nerves – so I told him I wanted to see the numbers, I said show me the numbers, make me a spreadsheet with several different scenarios. I wanted an ‘if this, then that’ type of failsafe that if we go through with this, we’ll need something we can both look at during the times we have to push through the stress, because there’ll definitely be a lot of it as we build up our ‘life plan.’