Author Archives: Our Family

Today is our first Sunday away, and being Christians, we wanted to go to church. My wife has already scouted locations when she visited in November, and we settled on a church that was a half mile away. Growing up, I was raised Catholic. I went through my first communion, my wife did not. TheContinue reading “Day 4”

Today we slept in. I slept in. Today I slept in while my wife woke up early to deal with the older three children. The youngest walked onto my side of the bed last night and told me that he missed me, and that he is lonely, and has no one to cuddle with. HeContinue reading “Day 3”

We started off today eating breakfast, very fast. The school is about a 15 minute walk uphill and we had to be there by 9am. We got out of the house at 850 and realized we needed to drive. So we drove to the school, and we had the four kids in one room whileContinue reading “Day 2”

Today we spent most of the morning unpacking a few hundred pounds of clothes, and supplies. It wasn’t very easy corralling four children into un packing their own luggage, but luckily my wife has more patience than I do. The oldest and third child chose to room together, and the 2nd child and 4th childContinue reading “Day 1”

It was a very long day. Thankfully all of Bonnie’s family rallied around us in the morning to help us pack a couple cars worth of luggage and take us to the airport. It is dark out so I have no clue about our surrounding area, but the home we are in is very nice.Continue reading “We Have Arrived”

Airport security wasn’t too bad. And our kids have not been acting up too much. Pray for our youngest, he was having a very rough morning waiting to check our 300lbs of luggage.

We are so well taken care of. Thank God for my mother in law, Aunt Carol, and Papa Rob for picking us up. Especially thank you to our very close friend Steve for carrying our luggage out to the truck. I guess those aren’t glamour muscles. 😃

My amazing wife just spent the last 4 days packing, and re-packing. And Re-packing. My sister in law has been here these past 4 days about 80% of the time. Helping us pack and repack and repack and repack. Packing for a trip like this is a Herculean task, and it mimics a lame mathContinue reading “We Are Packed!!!!!!”

Growing up, my favorite super hero was Superman. I would run around the house with a red towel tied to my neck and act it out. My favorite movie was Superman 3 (don’t judge, I was a child). And only Christopher Reeve can be Superman. I envied his fortress of solitude. I also have aContinue reading “Fortress of Solitude”

We are still packing. We have done more math in the past two days, than I have used in my job in the past few months. When I substitute teach I dread teaching math, and I just tell the kids if you don’t want to do math, just hire people to do it. That’s whatContinue reading “Still Packing”