LIVE A LIFE OF NO REGRETS!!: 2019 - A Year of Adventure

Quote from "Stepping Heavenward" by Mrs. E. Prentiss

"She says I shall now have one mouth more to fill and two feet the more to shoe, more disturbed nights, more laborious days, and less leisure or visiting, reading, music and drawing.

Well! This is one side of the story, to be sure, but I look at the other.

Here is a sweet, fragrant mouth to kiss; here are two more feet to make music with their pattering about my nursery. Here is a soul to train for God; and the body in which dwells is worthy of all it will cost, since it is the abode of a kingly tenant. I may see less of friends, but I have gained one dearer than them all, to whom, while I minister in Christ's name, I make a willing sacrifice of what little leisure for my own recreation my other dear darlings had left me. Yes, my precious baby, you are welcome to her time, her strength, her health, her tenderest cares, to her lifelong prayers! Oh, how rich I am, how truly, wondrously blest!"

Monday, May 6, 2019

2019 - A Year of Adventure - January recap

Somewhere as the last year was wrapping I decided that 2019 would be our Year of Adventure. Last year was a more of a year of healing, and figuring out what would our normal be without my Rusty (deep sigh as I type). I'm absolutely sure that our normal isn't very normal at all, but it seems to be working for us as I juggle work, home schooling, church, and more on most days.

Adventure #1: January took off and we decided to embark on our first adventure by walking a 3.5 mile ranger led walk at Mistletoe State Park, GA. My friends Susan and Frankie met us, and we enjoyed walking through the woods on a brisk winter morning. If you are interested in beautiful woodsy walks, you can probably check out your local state or national parks for group walks on their website.

Adventure #2: One Sunday evening we decided to walk some local trails around the lake where we live. We (my youngest kiddos, the grandkiddos, a friend of theirs and I) had a great time. We also learned a lot when we were far from where we parked, and "nature called" one of my little fellas. His older sister learned from her camping trips with American Heritage Girls what to do, and instructed him to make a cat hole and wipe with leaves. Note for next trip: pack a little TP in the back pack for just in case stops in the future. We left our home nice and clean, and came home muddy but happy.

Adventure #3: Lunar Eclipse. It was spectacular. The grands were over and they made it to about midnight with Christopher, but Emily and I were up for hours braving the cold to get pictures. It would take two of us to adjust the telescope, hold the phone and focus with it's camera, and shoot a good picture. It was a lot of work, but we had so much fun.

Stay tuned for our February adventures which will include the completion of our Glamper project, North Carolina fun, Michael's ski trip, and our out of country trip to Thailand.