Special Delivery Tour
So, how do you fit 7 people and 3 pets into less than 400 square feet of space?
Fiction Detox
It's been a fun few weeks of fiction detox. I mentioned to my librarian that I was taking a few weeks off of novel reading, and she looked at me with a blankly confused expression and asked, "Why in the world would you do that?"
Not the Same
Last week, I drove by what used to be a car wash and saw a man calmly vacuuming out his pristine black sedan in the half of the car wash that's still standing.
Some Nights and Days
There are some nights when you need to get the kids in bed early and curl up with a gigantic mug of tea and a bar of chocolate (and maybe some marshmallows--if I'm being honest) to watch Great British Baking Show and listen to the wind roar past the RV and your next door neighbor's awesome new wind chimes tolling faintly like far away church bells.
May As Well Enjoy (Part Deux)
I'm coming back to apply an add-on to Sunday's post...mostly because honesty is important to me and balance is a necessary ingredient when we talk about perspective (which is a theme that keeps cropping up for me here).
May As Well Enjoy
There is a tendency, for many of us, to go into survival mode when things get rough. We concentrate on putting one foot in front of the other and find ourselves with hardly any energy left for anything else.
A Garden of Should
We have now lived in the RV half of the amount of time that we lived in the actual house on base here. It's redefining the way I see permanent and temporary. It's also been making me think some about the way we put down roots...or intentionally avoid putting down roots...or think we should be putting down more roots than we actually are.
Books for Suffering
There are seasons in our reading lives when we begin to notice themes emerge. I'm not talking, of course, about how we have a preference for reading military biographies or historical fiction or young adult novels. I'm talking about how we find ourselves reading books that centralize around something that is resonating within us.
Friendship Lessons at the Football Field
This year, we have four kids playing flag football. Because the family that plays football together...stays together. Or something like that.
Of RV Life
Telling people that you're living in an RV...with five kids...while homeschooling...is almost as much fun as telling people that your husband is deploying...and you're pregnant again...with twins.
As It Should
On Halloween this year, I saw an unforgettable photograph of a young girl trick-or-treating on streets clogged with Michael's wreckage. She walked towards the sunset, her bag over her shoulder, with broken shingles and chunks of brick on either side of the street and a row of blue tarped houses in front of her.
Priorities
I had coffee with a friend this week who told me about moving into her new rental after her old rental had a tree dropped through the middle of it, effectively destroying 80% of their household goods.
Resolutions, Reality, and Resilience
It's that time of year where most of us are making some kind of resolution to exercise more, eat more healthily, pursue our personal goals instead of just talking about them, etc.
Instead of a Brain Dump
The problem with being a slow processor is that when life happens at too great a pace, things pile up before I get the brain space to write about them. Then I feel overwhelmed and decide to never update the blog again.
Seasonal Achievements
I wake up every morning and I think about all the stuff I can get done during the day if I just work smarter, time manage more effectively, and don't waste any time. Then by the end of the day, I can see just how little I've accomplished and just how exhausted I am, and I realize why I don't finish more of the items on my list.