The Plan

I'm not really sure how to begin. I guess I'll start at the beginning.

About 14 years ago, Lynn and I began dating. Late one night around Christmas, Lynn and I stayed up late at my mother's home. I was home from college for Christmas break. Around 2 o'clock am, my mother woke up and told Lynn to go home. She was angry. She told him he was a vagabond. He was. He is. Little did we know what foreshadowing that would be...

We have decided to rent out our home, sell or store most of our belongings and move into a camper powered by a veggie-oil diesel truck and travel the world or at least as much of it as we can. That's a lot to take in, I know. Go ahead and read it again.

Why? Life is short and this precious time with our children is even shorter. Cora is already ten. She wrote an essay this week for school about best friends. She said me and her father were her best friends. I realize how precious that is and how rare. I want to bottle up time with that little girl and with her brothers but I can't. Time will march on whether I foster those relationships or not. I choose to foster them.

The short-term plan: Lynn is going to school full-time online starting in January. He will be working on his Master's degree and will graduate in two years as a Family Nurse Practitioner. I am still taking pre-requisites and now co-requisites online for the nursing program I am planning on attending in a couple of years. Lynn will be working as nurse per diem in an Emergency Room hospital in northeastern Arizona. He will likely be working every other week at first and then one week a month while we travel until we save up enough money for the next leg of our journey. The kids will be going to school online as well.

The long-term plan: Lynn and I have a couple of main goals. We want to serve others and foster the joy of service in our children. We want to have our children learn Spanish so they will have as many options open to them as they can. We want to live each day on purpose. No pre-conceived notions. No fears and obligations. Convictions. Plans. Actions. I love my family. That's why we are doing this.

Salt River Recreation

This summer while Cameo was doing her CNA class in Mesa the kids and I went with our friends the Shaws and some of their friends floating down the Salt River. It was a blast.