Do you remember the anticipation leading to summer holidays as a kid?  Or what about Christmas?  Your Birthday party?  The Anticipation for it lasted way longer than the actual event.  The event came and went and you felt like you hardly blinked.  When COVID 19 happened, all anticipation for upcoming events was taken away.  Suddenly the world was on hold.  We realized that having nothing to look forward to was not a fun feeling, so we decided we needed to add some “anticipation” back into our lives.

The appreciation for anticipation was a discovery for us a few years ago.  I think we either ended up on a trip that we were too busy to plan and get excited about.  Or, we decided to surprise our son with something, and we realized by doing that we took away all the conversations and excitement leading up to the event.  Whatever it was, we decided that we didn’t want to do that anymore.  We wanted to enjoy the build up.  The planning, preparation, research and ANTICIPATION for our upcoming adventure is a big part of the actual adventure.

Anticipation extends the event.  It makes it longer than a one week spring break, or the 4 day Thanks giving long weekend.  Anticipation is enjoying the build up and the waiting.  If the event isn’t as awesome as you had dreamt up in your mind…well, you did still get to enjoy the preparation.  So it wasn’t a total bust.  Consequently we have found that the build up prepared us to find all the good things we could do and see and experience before hand so we didn’t miss anything!