The Missing Piece to the Puzzle
Alaina’s art from art camp
It’s so hard for me to keep up with the blog while we’re sitting stationary. We get into a different routine. One where I’m running around trying to take care of the daily grind. There are dentist appointments, weekly activities for the kids, friends to visit, cleaning, cooking, shopping, laundry, house issues, administrative crap and the list goes on and on.
Not to say that some of that doesn’t follow us on the road. But it seems it’s at a much smaller scale. The space is smaller and so is the cleaning. I don’t need to maintain as much so fewer things go wrong.
Then throw into the mix every time we take Perl on a trip we have to load everything up and when we return we have to unload and clean. It’s a double challenge because this must be done in no more than two days. We have to park her out front on the street blocking our mailbox. I don’t think the mail lady likes us too much. I which we had somewhere to store her at our house. But the perfect solution would be to just keep rolling on down the road full-time baby!
Alaina’s watercolor piece
Oh, and then there’s the new puppy! Boy is he a lot of fun. But he also keeps me on my toes. Usually I’m snuggling with him at night instead of writing blog posts :-0. He always wants me to play with him or hang out on my lap. And I’m indulging him for the moment. But soon he’ll need to learn his manners and let mommy blog when she needs to.
I can’t resist this little face!
Phew, it’s been a busy summer. It’s also been a ton of fun. Currently it’s crunch time for me! It’s ‘preparing for a trip time. We are heading to the Thousand Trails in Wells, Maine on September 12th. I want to bring the kids bikes this time so I need to order a bike rack. I’m looking at one that will hang off the RV ladder.
Remember that piece of the puzzle I was waiting to fit in? I think we’re almost there. It impacts fall and spring.
So we now have future travel plans in place. They’re not exactly what I envisioned but life seldom grants that to us. The twins strongly dislike this whole RV lifestyle. As a result, we decided to let them both have a say in their future. If things hadn’t fallen into place to allow this, they would have had to adjust. This trip is something we want them to experience and learn from. But since there are options now, we ‘re offering them up. Their options were as follows:
- They could both come with me as originally planned and stay until we come back home next spring.
- They could both come with me and fly back home together a couple of times for a small break. Then fly back out to me.
- They could alternate who went. In other words, we would break the trip in half. One would stay home the first half the other come with me. Then we would swap out close to the halfway point.
So which one do you think they chose? They chose the third option. However, the person coming the second half will stay in the RV longer. We thought this was only fair because they get to stay home ‘first’. And it coincides with my husband coming out to Vegas at Christmastime through the first half of January. And neither would have to fly alone.
It’s bedtime mom!
Ah, but what was the missing piece to the puzzle? While the twins are coming up on 13, we wanted them to have supervision during the day. Especially since they’re homeschooled. Luckily, there were already plans in place for my husband’s parents to come from Beijing and stay with us for a while. We were waiting on results from a medical test. The results came back and grandma is cleared to travel. The final piece is their Visa’s which will hopefully be issued on September 9th (my late mother’s bday)!
Isn’t it funny when the pieces fit together so well? Especially when they aren’t even planned that way. We, in no way, planned to have my in-laws arrive almost exactly when I’d be leaving. But alas, the universe has granted us a reprieve.
I will post out our route and show you what our journey looks like. We have lots of fun stops planned. But I think my furry little guy is telling me it’s time for bed, he’s snuggled by my feet fast asleep. One more potty break, then off to bed.
