Joanna Gaines Wants To Spend the Coming Decades Of Her Life Living “Lightly”

Joanna Gaines is done planning all her moments. She wants to be spontaneous and enjoy the feeling of living life to the fullest.

According to the “Fixer Upper”, she’s 44 and looking forward to spend the next 44 years, or so, living “more freely”.

Joanna Gaines – Details How A Spontaneous Moment With Her Youngest Child Made Her Try Something New

Thanks to 4-year-old son Crew, Joanna Gaines now knows there’s a lot of joy involved in doing things on the fly. “I had just gotten ready for work and he said, ‘Mom, I need you to get on your stomach, on the ground and look at what these ants are carrying,'” Joanna detailed to PEOPLE in their latest issue, on newsstands Friday. “I was like, ‘Baby, I can see them from up here!'”

However, choosing not to disappoint her young son, Joanna, who is also mom to sons Drake and Duke, and daughters Emmie and Ella, got down on her belly and proceeded to observe the interesting ants.

“I’m flat on my belly and the whole time I’m thinking, ‘I’m too old for this,'” she recalled. “Then Chip pulls up with the kids and starts honking like, ‘Are you okay!?’ They all thought I fell — because Mom doesn’t normally do that.”

Even though it was a “simple and silly” moment, Joanna later found out that she highly enjoyed it, adding, “I’ve realized a lot of joy comes from unplanned moments. I’m glad I didn’t miss that one.”

Joanna Gaines – Wants To Change the Way She Spends Her Life After Discovering Her Moments Are A “Blur”

Sometimes the pressure we put on ourselves to reach our expectations can make us forget what matters most about life: actually living it and enjoying it.

As for Gaines, looking back on ten years of her life, she found that she couldn’t find many meaningful moments, so she forced herself to rethink her approach to living.

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“I was about to turn 44 and I realized, the last 10 years, a lot of it felt like a blur,” she said. “It was fast, it was exciting, and there was so much to be grateful for, but there was something in me that just felt so tired. I wanted to go back and regain moments that I had missed along the way.

“I’m 44 years old, and so say I have another 44 years to go, I want to live it lighter,” she shared. “I want to live more freely. Just be grounded in who I am, what I believe I’m here for.”

Joanna’s memoir, “The Stories We Tell”, will be available this November 8.

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