Colorado Springs - Library Blogging!

“….so here I am to worship, here I am to bow down…” that the song my pre-teens are singing together in the kitchen as I have sat down to try and share something of the past few days. It’s true, even though the details of our life sound like a standard country western song we are able to enjoy the journey and find God’s hand in every situation.

The bare facts combined are really funny – the huge moving truck with our mattresses and table for the rental and everything else we own has been stranded in nowhere Iowa for two days with a blown engine and roads to icy for the tow truck. The house we are renting is plenty big enough (especially since we only have clothes/cooking/sleeping bags) and as long as we think about it as a North Woods cabin it meets all of our expectations.

We did get the opportunity to meet many of the Universities facilities maintenance staff over dinner yesterday (they chose not to eat as their job was too disgusting) because the laundry draining caused the sewer to back up into the bathroom shower and flood out into the hall. Relationships gearing up all ready as we had to dance around each other until 8:30pm when they got things cleaned out and cleaned up enough to leave us for the night. They will be back today and I suspect we will have cookies ready to greet them. We already confessed to them the broken window from Lil throwing a shoe in anger but the good news is that there are at least 10 others that are cracked or broken so we didn’t do much more damage than there already was.

Traveling with kids who struggle with autism and FASD issues is pretty much a three ring circus. But we made it, no strangers were bitten in the hidden corners of McDonalds playland, and no one was left in the bathroom at the rest stop. No trailer was stolen, no wallets lost and best of all the members of my van took those last 60 miles with happy hearts – especially when we figured out that the road we were moving to had been blocked off and we had to access it through the back of a university parking lot. Good thing we found student who remembered seeing the sign marking this tiny one lane dead end!

Time is up – for the next 60 days it looks as if I will be without internet, phone or any tv reception in the house. I do have my cell (feel free to call) and I will be sneaking off to the library to blog and pay bills when ever I can. Blessings to you all! D

Thankfully our friends at ANCHOR co-op gave us the Go-Fish DVD when we left on Friday - I played it on my computer over and over and it kept the little ones away from the plumbing mess!