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The Winds Of More Change

October 1, 2019

I don’t even know where to start nor do I have all the words for my thoughts and feelings. I have felt this weird obligation that I need to explain my decisions to everyone, to make them see that I am not crazy or weak or so I don’t have to hear the negative thoughts or second guessing. When it comes down to it I know that our decisions don’t have to make sense to anyone but me and Eric. Ok I’ll be honest, sometimes those decisions don’t even make sense to me but rather I know it’s the right move. And luckily we have been very blessed with overly supportive friends and family. However, for journaling purposes and not to have to explain it to people wondering here are the details.

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McCall Idaho

October 1, 2019

Our first stop was McCall Idaho. We stayed at the North Fork Lodge Rv Park for a week. The RV park was one of our favorites in terms of amenities. It had high speed internet perfect for Eric’s work, the RV spaces were a good size, indoor swimming pool which the girls used everyday we were there, dog park, surrounded by trees and minutes from downtown McCall.

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THE YEAR OF GROWTH

January 14, 2019

If I could sum up this past year I would call it my “year of mental and emotional growth”. While this past year we were able to do so many fun things, see lots of family and take plenty of trips, when I think back over it the thing that stands out most is the emotional ride I have been on.

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THE BEGINNING

January 7, 2019

If someone told me a year ago that we would plan to sell our home, buy a truck and trailer (something we know nothing about) and travel the country for a year I would have flat out laughed and then very seriously replied with a “um, no!”. Isn’t it so funny how life can take a 180 turn and leave you in a place you never quite imagined you’d be? I feel that way on so many levels sometimes. The fact that I am already out of my child bearing years and my last child will leave home around the time some people start thinking about giving birth to their last child is definitely one. Honestly when Eric and I came to the realization that our family was complete and our family of 4 was it I felt just about every emotion in the book. Excitement that we could finally move on with our lives, sadness that I was leaving a stage behind I wasn’t ready to leave, fear of being an empty nester so young and being alone, relief that I didn’t have to be so vulnerable anymore in our process to adopt, emptiness in that no one really knew the storm of emotions going on inside of me and that most of my friends couldn’t relate.

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TRAILER SPECS

January 8, 2019

One thing that seems to keep ringing true for Eric and I is that it doesn’t take us long to find what we want and we jump in with both feet pretty quickly. When buying our first house it was pretty much the first one we walked through besides a model home we took a tour through when we thought about building. It instantly felt like home and we didn’t need to look elsewhere. Same thing when we bought our car and now with our trailer. I did a lot of looking around online and we walked through a few brand new trailers to get an idea of what we wanted. However, in the end we knew we wanted to buy used since I was also using this as my creative outlet and going to turn it into our home with some updates, not to mention we could buy at a more reasonable price point. After only a couple weeks looking online at used trailers I kept coming back to this 40ft 2012 Prime Time Crusader. It had all the must haves we wanted and wasn’t very old. When going to look at it, it also helped that the guy selling it was so helpful and informative with all our questions we had. We sat on whether we should jump in and buy the trailer for about a week and in the end knew that that was going to be our next home.

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