Athletics today

Today seems to be a day for athletics. The twins have a soccer game at noon. Then later on James has baseball practice. Our daughter does a great deal of driving in a week. We knew this before hand, and she made every effort to minimize the driving by having other friends help get the kids here and there. With five kids, it is a busy schedule, though. In addition to driving the kids to their lessons and practices or games, Kristy finds the time to home school, deliver Meals on Wheels, and to help out others in their church who need a ride or a helping hand. It is a full life that would tire me out if done on a daily basis. How she gets it all done is beyond me. We have had a great deal of fun with this set of grandchildren, and soon it will be time for us to return to Kerrville with a truck loaded with whatever we have in our storage unit here.

We hope by taking our stuff to Texas that we will have more access to our stored things when we need or want them. I am looking forward to being able to use all the tools that I have stored. HW2 is looking forward to getting into stored clothes as seasons change. I know she plans to change out dishes that we use every day with a different set. She is also looking ahead to getting to cloth that she has put away for that next sewing project.

We have organized help at both ends of this endeavor, and that should make the loading and unloading a bit smoother. I think that we will leave here Monday afternoon and begin our thousand mile trip back and spread it over three days and two nights which should make it a bit easier on HW2's back. Traveling like this is very hard for her, and she seldom complains. I would be a grump the whole time if it was my back hurting. I do admire her stoic approach to handling daily pain.

Once we arrive in Texas and get unloaded, it will be back to the daily routine there with a new twist. We will become, on April 1, work campers and work three days a week getting paid. This should help with monthly expenses, and maybe we can get our credit card paid off and even put money on the motor home mortgage. That is the plan, and we shall see how this works out. We plan to do this for at least a year. We enjoy our RV park but do not know how the summer weather will affect our daily lives. HW2 does not enjoy hot weather. Time will tell. Happy travels.