All about us

I snapped this picture because it struck me as the perfect "This is my life."  Yup, we live in there- all six of us, and have for the last 10 weeks, and the two summers before that.  It's an existence I can't say I'd recommend, but we've adapted to our circumstances and it's not as miserable as it might seem.  Especially when we are parked in a place where kids can roam.  We spent several weeks at my parents' house in Northeastern New York State, so kids could always go inside Nana's house for a little room to spread out.  Someone was always at camp or "Grandma camp," which took the pressure off.  Now, we're at our agency's campus in Pennsylvania, and there's all sorts of room to explore.  That makes it easier, but we're also doing school now, and that makes it harder.

Note also the Taco Bell logo in the background.  That's not an accident, but it's part of what we do!  Many, many of our journeys have included a stop at one Taco Bell or another- it's the cheapest way we have found to feed a gluten-free, vegetarian family on the road!  So when we pulled in there, taking up 8 parking spaces, I just had to snap this pic!  The only thing missing is our big-as-they-come red fiberglass Coleman canoe, which was up there for every other transition this year.


Now, we'd love to get out of this rig at the end of this month, so we'll probably be heading back to NENY in a few weeks.  We're so thankful to have husband's parents' house available to us, with a schoolroom!  But, we would much rather be moving on than moving back, and moving on would mean being able to go to the mission field.  God has been doing some interesting things this week:  we lost a supporter and got notice that another would stop soon, but we also gained at least one later the same day.  Husband got an offer of some paid work while we wait.  We're always on a roller-coaster of high hopes and unknowns, encouragement and discouragement.  So we just keep doing what we are doing, hoping, and praying.