We are so close. Close enough that I can smell the pizza baking in the wood-fire oven.

I am so excited to let you know that we are $2,000.00 away from our monthly goal. So, if 20 of you reading this decided to give $100 a month, then we could pack our bags tomorrow – or as soon as we get our VISAs.

It’s becoming real, and the closer we get the more real it becomes. We are actually going to move back to the land flowing with olive oil and pasta sauce. That’s my milk and honey, folks.

It’s been such a long road but there is a light at the end of it now. And it comes from the vastness that is IKEA, where we will spend much of our time picking out furniture to take home and put together. But who cares how many mind-numbing hours we spend in that maze of a store or days we spend putting furniture together? We will be home. Finally. And that is worth all the trips to IKEA I will have to make in the near future.

If you would like to be a part of helping us get back to Italy so we can begin the incredible journey before us, click on the donate tab, which will tell you how you can get involved.