I am, I thought, standing with some of the coolest people I’ve ever seen, in one of the coolest places I’ve ever been. Who would have thought it would be in Bakersfield? My first impression of Bakersfield can be summed…
In The Storm of it All!
Wow! Chris and I have come so far…and still have far to go. Sometimes it just seems so intimidating! I look forward to the day in which we can wake and start/live our day fairly easily (the new American Dream),…
Whew.
Whew. Normally I would write that with an exclamation point, but I’m too tired. Chris and I completed escrow on the house mid-February, and moved out of the house completely this past week, and BOY WAS IT HARD. We had…
Hip, hip, hooray!
Three cheers in celebration: we just heard today that the lending has FINALLY come through for our buyers of the house! Things are moving forward for us again, and we are grateful. We anticipate buying our new motorhome and officially…
“Maybe. Maybe not.”
“Yee-hawwww!”, I heard coming from the back of the house. Did that unique southern expression of enjoyment really just come from my German husband’s mouth? “Yee-haw?”, I asked. “I’m happy!”, he matter-of-factly replied. I immediately was struck with the following…
In The Eye of the Storm…
Well, one thing that can’t be said about our current situation and Life change is the word boring. We’ve been riding these emotional waves pretty well, all things considered! The selling of our house has been a longer process than…
Seagull symbolism
Earlier this evening, I was in the backyard looking at the evening sky. It’s been our first really rainy day this winter (*yay) and the sky was an interestingly blotchy-yet-smooth palette of pinks and purples, and there were so many…
Organi…zation?
One thing that Chris and I have realized in our mission of downsizing, selling our home, and moving into an RV full-time, is the Need For Organization. Organi-what? I am not naturally an organized individual, but have always thought it…