We left Missouri at 8pm Saturday. What followed was one of the longer nights of my life, but traffic was light through Kansas City at midnight so… small mercies. We stopped and slept in a truck pull off area for a couple hours at 3am and made it to my parents about 2pm Sunday. No […]
…still moving.
We’re still packing. Still loading the truck. So. Much. Work. The house is empty and clean. The garage is on its way. The barn is started but not finished. The shop is barely touched. This is the first of two trips. Blaine will come back with the horse trailer for another. But we’d planned to […]
Moving day.
We get the moving truck at 10am. Going to be a long day. We’ll head north likely Friday, giving us two days to pack it. And the horse trailer. And the camper. Liberty gets to pull the horse trailer. I’ll pull the camper… or drive the moving truck with the pickup on a trailer behind […]
Mercies: part three.
Picking up where I left off… But first, Part 1 and Part 2. Blaine took his CDL test with the Missouri Highway Patrol at a facility an hour away on April 13. He passed the pre-trip check without issue. They have a digital “lottery” of sorts to draw which maneuver of three he’d have to […]
Mercies. Part two.
Continued from Mercies: part one. Written in April. After a week of classes, Blaine had to take a day off that first Friday and get his permit. Texts were flying between our neighbor and I regarding her buying our house. Blaine was taking his written tests over the material he’d learned. He couldn’t continue the […]
Sterling Blaine: 14.
Sterling turns 14 today. Craziness! It was not so long ago that he was little, scared of bugs, and doing crazy large math problems in his head. Today, he’s a hunter and a trapper and loves the outdoors. He still won’t kill ticks for me if he has his way, but fear is no longer […]
Mercies: part one.
So much has gone on, and I couldn’t say a word there for a long time. I created this post before I even can, so that I don’t forget details and timeline. This post was written April 5, 2021. I’m publishing it in parts as I can; bear with me. We’ve discussed moving for years. […]
Baby 10.
It’s… a…. baby!!! We decided it would be fun to keep the gender a surprise. Baby’s growing healthy and strong, not nearly the size of Creed. While I’m glad, I was rather hoping for a full sized 36 weeker again. I bet not. He measured a month big from 20 weeks on. The shorter pregnancy […]
Creed James: 1.
Creed James, boy who loves balls, swings, music, adrenaline, and food, turned one last week. He took the day celebrating him in stride… I think he’s catered to enough that it wasn’t all that out of the ordinary for him. He dug into his cake, opened his gifts fairly well after several sibling demonstrations, and […]
May 2021: so many changes coming.
Charlotte finally saw an orthopedic surgeon Tuesday. She’s in removable wrist braces that go just partway up her arm now. So much better! She’s feeling little pain and antsy to be back to regular life again. She’s super over the unlimited kindle privileges and just wants to do things for herself again. She’s limited to […]