We are settling for the academic year back in College
Station. The Lord has shown great grace
to us in giving us a furnished house to rent for the academic year... some of
our good friends who are overseas with CRU are renting us their home through
May. It is a great grace to us that we
have the ability to settle in for the academic year instead of working to sort
and sell and put the house on the market now.
Hard as it was to get our belongings out and sorted in a massive sell-off in April it
is SO much better on this side of things for sure.
We cleaned out our storage unit where we had some family
heirloom kind of things and totes full of clothes. The second round of sorting is over and what
we have now is loaded in a 7’X12’ cargo trailer so that we aren’t paying for a
storage unit. The limbo of being here
and looking ahead sort of wears on me at times but the reality is that this is
a good place for our family to be for the sunset of our time in College
Station; after being here for 10 years the leaving is bitter-sweet to say the
least.
The thermometer was a reality check as we rolled into
town! Never ready for 108 degrees!
This past weekend Julie and I celebrated 17 years of
marriage. We went out to dinner with the
two of us earlier in the weekend. But as
our kids have grown and our family has matured, we wanted to celebrate as a
whole family.
Here is the toast to us, lemons and water. It was fun to sit and talk about what we
value together as a family. One of the
kids said something along the lines of “I like us because we are so different
than anyone else.” I asked why and the
reply wasn’t a surprise…”Alaska has made us different.” True that.
