After separating, sorting, organizing, packing, traveling thousands of miles, staying with parents for two weeks, living out of suitcases, we're almost home! Our travel trailer was finally finished yesterday. It has new tires and new carpet and all the systems work, most importantly, the air conditioning. We loaded what we've bought into it yesterday and are waiting for the air freight to arrive today to finish the work. Then Bill can finally sit back and breath a sigh of relief in his own space, for a few days, before we head to the coast.
It's all coming back to me - the two years of living and traveling in it. There were many things I enjoyed about that carefree lifestyle, but a few I didn't. It took forever to manuever around the bed to make it, hitting my head on the fan shelf and knocking my shins into the wooden base. I have to relearn how to work efficiently in that small space. I'm afraid we have way too many clothes coming, and I have to remember where I tucked all the food. Thankfully, Brendan doesn't have as many toys, but his clothes and shoes are much bigger now, and may not fit into the space it used to.
BTW - when we were backing the trailer into it's space, a park hostess drove up in a golf cart to welcome us. She said they have Sunday School every week and they're holding vacation bible school mid-July. I was a little preoccupied making sure Bill didn't back into a tree to ask, but it sounds like there might be a lot of children in the park. That would be nice for Brendan. His basketball and football should arrive today, so he can get in some practice before school starts. I always thought he was a natural at sports, but my brothers confirmed it after batting practice with Shawn and b-ball practice with Nate. He's got a good aim, and as Shawn said, "a learning spirit, willing to take instruction to improve." That could be from moving to a different country and having to relearn everthing he thought he knew and not taking anything for granted. What a great quality to have.
Gotta go. I think the movers are here!
