My mom was a planner. She had a list — places she wanted to go, experiences she wanted to have, a whole life waiting on the other side of someday. She worked hard her entire life with that someday in mind.
She never got there.
She passed away before she could retire, before the trip she'd been promising herself for years. And I was left sitting with a grief I couldn't quite name — not just the loss of her, but the loss of all those unlived days she'd been so carefully saving up for.
I made myself a promise after that. We were not going to wait.
What "not waiting" actually looks like
It doesn't mean being reckless or spontaneous to the point of chaos. It means choosing now over eventually. For our family, that looked like prioritizing experiences over things. At first, it looked like weekend birthday trips instead of gifts to unwrap. Road trips got longer and longer until we eventually worked up the courage to fly to Hawaii. After that, we flew across the country to New York and we survived! Our first really big trip was Italy when the kids were 3, 5, and 6.
The philosophy behind the show
We created this show because we genuinely believe that the world is the best classroom, that food tells the story of a people better than any history book, and that faith comes alive when you stand in the places where saints walked.
We want to invite other families into that same spirit — not necessarily to travel to the exact same places we have (though we hope our show makes you want to!), but to apply the same idea closer to home: stop waiting for the perfect moment. The table is set. Sit down.
My mom's someday never came. Ours is happening right now. We're not wasting it.
