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Acadia National Park.

We woke up on the side of the woody road and tried to leave early to the Acadia parking lot and do breakfast and showers there. We managed it well. The weather had changed to showers that day, all day. So we got ready and geared up good. We didn't know where we were in the park this one doesn't have any main entrance it seemed so we got out and ventured to the nature center first thing to get some info. Apparently we had stopped at a nice boardwalk over the marsh and the gardens part of the park. We did the Jesup trail reading signs and keeping a smiling face in all the rain. We all did pretty well. We saw a wigwam, an owl pellet and chipmunks, lots and lots of different kinds of shelf fungi and mushrooms. Which reminded me of the movie fern gully when Jed said he wished he could shrink down to fairy size and live in one of the fungi. I told them we'd watch it soon. After the walk I was feeling pooped and needed some down time so we found and hopped on a shuttle that takes you around part of the park to different sites. The oceanside was one of them and I knew that was a must for Jesse so we got off in 10 mins or so at Thunder Hole. We saw crashing waves and climbed smooth reddish cliffs. Then we hopped back on and off again (10min) to the stables where we learned about carriage horses and life before cars and met a few. Soooo big and great! Then we hopped in and found the bus to take us back was ending so we'd need to transfer to a different bus. The stop to get off was in a cutie little town and Jesse told the kids he'd get them some hot chocolate so we walked to the cafe. Along the way I saw the patagonia store and said bye to Jesse the girls followed me, I knew I needed to settle somewhere in getting some good rain gear so I worked it out. Jesse brought us the hot chocolate and while the kids played in the tent and play fire pit kids area Jesse realized his phone was gone and he'd left it in the bathroom a min ago. He ran back and it was gone. However he was able to identify the guy who went it after him and after asking the peeps in the nearby stores if someone had returned it he went in search for the guy. It's a pricey phone afterall and he's using it for work. I got to praying and then saw they guy. I called Jesse back and ditched the kids in the play area, (really small chill town), not an excuse but something told me they'd be ok. I had to follow him until Jesse caught up with me at least. A block down they stayed to get into a car, him his wife and his baby (😢) and with Jesse right behind me I started to ask them if they'd see a phone in the bathroom, "no" they denied and tried to end it. I asked if they use the bathroom "no" she says, I ask him the same, "yea but I didn't see a phone". We'll...we tried to reason with him, there was no one else there who would have picked it up. But he just got very defensive and told us we can call the cops if we want, fipped us off and left. We got pictures of his plates and Jesse called the cops as I quickly went back to get the kids. Geesh! I knew this was a big deal for poor Jesse, we were a bit shaken up. We just gathered the kids and left. Got on a bus and headed for the airstream. Along the way we talked about all our options and what we'd do. We got to the airstream and got dry and left the park for the laundromat and dinner. I made French dip and Jesse did laundry. Then we tucked the kids into the car and drove to a rest stop and hour away in the direction of Nova Scotia. I can't wait to see what's there!

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Lots Of Changes.

Since Jesse being away and me learning I actually can do it all there's been a little shift. I feel like I no longer am tempted to pull him away from work or hand him a heavy burden upon arriving "home".

We woke up and he did his thing I pointed out a Barnes and noble near by, walking distance and he went at his leisure, from the Walmart parking lot. I got up slower than usual I think because of the rain. It was pouring pretty good since early in the morning. I stepped out of the airstream, put out the awning and threw out my yoga mat when I was greeted with some passersby who asked to stand underneath the awning for a moment. OK! I said. Rebecca a Swedish looking deaf girl around my age and Philip her boyfriend a few years older. We'll we got to talking, they were homeless and God just put it on my heart to love and serve them, so that's what we did. With warm breakfast, gear, prayers talks and hugs and hours later a taxi ride! It was lovely just to care for perfect strangers and such a gift to us As much as them in the end. We even had an extra android phone hanging around (thanks to my nerdy husband) that was able to replace his old one that wouldn't make phone calls 🙌. After that I sourced the bike hitch at a uhaul but we couldn't get them on the phone so we packed up and drove the 40 min, no luck then we drove on, the 2.5 hour drive to get close to the national park. On the way we ate dinner at a glorified rest stop with a Starbucks. Played around and got back in the car. As we got close to a Walmart I asked Jesse if he wanted to try instead to find a nature spot. We looked up places nearby and found a place called Holden nature trails and went there. It turned it to be a nature school and had a very big very discreet place in the back next to the playground and trails where we could find to stay! The kids were all prett sleepy by now. We just carried them to bed excited for them to wake up and be able to bike and play and explore when they wake! Oh and before this we visited that lovely church that loved us the first time and filled up with water and left another note 🤗.

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Jesse's Back!

Woke up at Walmart and aerobicised with Blue after prepping breakfast of course and yada yada yada. The girls had started a "drawing class" that they asked if they could finish before school began. I said yes. Then the started in on their lists. I worked with Betsy on a lot of her math that she loves but is above her. Whilenjwd and Jolene played a game of legos. Soon enough it was time to pick up dad. We got things ready and left (6 min away). He took a bus to us. We drove to a. Water front playground with space to bike and did that. We ate lunch and Blue went swimming. It was all very lovely I must say. Oh yea, and dad gave the kids all their gifts from birthdays past that he'd picked up from Grampa's house, and the stuff he'd gotten them on his trip. They tore into them and have ball and soonafyrr wrote thank you cards outside at a picnic table. They did a really impressive job with them too. Then we made sure to squeeze in the dent appt at the auto body and got the news we needed. A repair is in the making. Then we picked up dad and went to sushi dinner whic I've officially sworn off now because even if o try my hardest the bill is always too high. So, no. Just no. But we have fun, there was an aquarium inside that had entertaining fish next to our table. Jolene wore her helium in the restaurant and I failed to even take notice until later. She loves it because it's a unicorn with stickout hair, horn, nose, and ears! Yup, full Jojo. Then we went to a campsite for water, no luck, closed, so we went to a a church, yup, spigot out front, pull through drive way, perfect. No shame, we filled up and stuck a five dollar bill with a card in their mailbox saying thank you. Then we watered their grass with our grey water 👍. All good. Then we pulled up at the Walmart again from last night and I had a long drawn out shopping trip in Walmart and filled my cart to the brim with all their organic goodness. Jesse put the kids to bed, and I wouldn't know what else, they were all asleep when I got back except for my late night reader (Betsy). I put groceries away in quite and got to bed. I felt the release when I saw Jesse today and knew it was time I got a break. So tomorrow I may source a hair appt around here. But I'm thrilled to be a mom! The good the bad the ugly. And a wife again too! One more person I have to explain my crazy to and just hope they'll love me anyway. They're sooooo worth it!

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Bikes.

We hung out for quite some time this morning in the Walmart parking, that's how it goes sometimes when you're a day a time. It can be more like a moment at a time. I actually like the freedom we have with our schedule without daddy's work in the mix, but gotta have work and happy to have daddy, so come back soon! The kids did their lists, which today meant school because I remembered to write it on there. Today I'm thinking about bikes, and I know they're just beyond those doors over there. So I tell the kids what I'm thinking and that we're going to LOOK at bikes. Then things inside the store seemed to fall into place, so we got bikes. The kids moods were sky high. So because of that though we forfeited going to the national park today, but will go with Jesse when he gets back. Instead I found a place to ride our bikes, which wasn't he best path or anything, I learned to search bike trail in google maps instead of playground. I have to remember we're bikers now! We did the small path and then crossed the street it a cute old afashioned ice cream spot to seal the deal. Then I packed up those nasty things in the back of our truck, which is taxing, next step, bike rack, and we headed for dinner (30min) to a town called Augusta. We ate at chipotle (mmmm). Oh I forgot! Earlier we stopped at a campground after calling and asking if it'd be alright to grab some water for a fee, he said yes and a we did. That's how I was able to stay two nights in a Walmart. Which is where we headed next after chipotle, and pulling over to a grassy curb to drain our sink and shower water. I don't feel bad and maybe I should, but we use all hunky dory products and no harmful chemicals are being put down our drains so I call it watering the grass. Then we head back to Walmart to sleep. Yes! Because this is more like it! No unhitching, no cost, no planning! Now we just need to get out of Walmart parking and sleep among the trees (boondocking)! Tomorrow, the dent and sourcing a Bailey rack and the national park on the horizon! Happy to have had this time of alone with the kids. I've learned a lot. And learned I can do it all, be it, not well all the time. But hopefully this means I will stop leaning on him for things and instead enjoy him more.

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Leaving Vermont For The Second Time.

Woke up in our familiar little spot in Stowe. Aerobicised and took out trash, cleaned and prepped everything but the hitching to leave. The kids were busy half way finishing their lists then I sent them out to play for the last few minuets before we left. I'm getting a lot better (praise the Lord) in recognizing where I'm at and where they're at and giving us what we need. We headed for Maine. Maybe stopped two times for refreshments and that was it. As I remember things. It was pretty straight forward. We're listening to Ms. Frisby and the rats of NIMH on audiobook. All but one seem to like it, the same one who doesn't like any audiobook but the BFG. So he says, but I can tell when he's in the mood that he likes them all pretty well. We were headed for a few different RV spots but when I realized we were full of water and didn't really need to go we just found a Walmart parking lot and slept there. I warmed up our leftovers and we ate and went to bed.

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Just Another Day.

It's never just another day, but sometimes it feels like it. Felt like I finally got to sleep in! I'm staying up way too late. Trying to squeeze it all in. Note to self, plan less things. Always, less things. Then I got the kids set up with their breakfast and did a 30 min aerobic workout. Really like aerobics!? Had no idea. I think I always say that about new exercises. Afterwards I ran into the kids creating paper doll world with cereal boxes. I couldn't complain although it was a giant mess because I realized I hadn't written their school as some time down in their todo lists. Whoops. So school was paper dolls. I let them go for it all morning and they did a surprising good clean up after I finally cut them off to run outside for fresh air before we went to town. Jed meanwhile woke up slow and then stated in on his favorite thing, legos. I made kale pad thai again and we all ate and then headed into town for the landromat. It's getting a little to cold for hang drying anymore. We were getting into town at like 4:30. I had other stops planned but I scratched all but the most important which was the laundry. The kids played at a cool playground behind the landromat. Very small town, very friendly. The kids got to stay there when I went to switch the laundry and I got an ok report upon my arrival. It was a little bit of a trust test and I think they passed but barely. Then I took the kids out to a tiny 50's dinner actually from the early 90's. It was adorable. We got fries and milkshakes with whipped cream and cherries, the whole nine. Just so they could know what a stomach ache feels like, and why I feed them the way I do! Jk. It was fun we walked to all these places with Blue and then back to the landromat and then "home". I stayed up their fire and started hitching up the rig and getting ready to leave tomorrow morning. Done enough that was done with only minor damages and then we came in for bed, I got a little mean I heard, we kissed and made up and then they went to bed. Counting down the days until Jesse comes back and trying to fill them in with adventure mom style to keep us distracted.

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Friend Time.

Got up jogged in place for 30 min...more or less. The sun was out today. Ate breakfast. The kids had their list of duties to attend to. Quick shower and we were off in a flash, by flash I mean, leaving at 11. To drive to my see my friend 30 min away in a small artsy town called Johnson?? I think, VT. We stayed in her little town and went to lunch at a nummy bakery and stopped by her art studio and went on a nature trail called journeys end. I love how different the forests look here compared to the west coast. There were so many leaves and pine needles on the ground and roots like veins all throughout it gave the appearance that snow gives, so much consistency, across the entire place you didn't know where the path was. So we kinda wandered in the big expanse of greens until we got to a water fall that split into three about 10 ft high with a small but deep pool at its bottom. Perfect for summertime, but it was a little chilly now, there would be no swimming today. We skipped rocks and chatted, the kids played house and climbed rocks. We spent the better part the day doing this and then walked back and dropped off my friend back in her town and went home to camp and all rested with a little quiet time. We started our fire early tonight while simultaneously starting an instant pot dinner. Then we all huddled round the fire for s'mores. I wasn't feeling very talkitive tonight as I went inside to do dishes and ready the place for bed I let the kids play their imaginative Native American game around the fire. When it was time and I had recharged I called them in, they did their list of duties and we climbed in my bed for bible. Then they went off to bed and I had a long extestencial talk with Jesse aka: pastor dad, and tucked myself in for sleep. Feeling the desire to nourish these three souls along with mine. With the last night at camp on the horizon, thinking about what's next, nervous and thankful for the opportunity all rolled into one.

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Back to Vermont.

Woke up in the service department early to a knock on the door. I had to move in 30 min. So I'm my pajamas in the rain I hitched up the truck and move the kids stealthfully over to the parking lot (50ft). After warm breakfast cereal for a rainy day we prepared to leave and just as we were leaving I noticed my airstream key missing. I checked with the office not there.jesse had never given it to the team it must have skipped off sometime out of its plastic attached to my keys! Yikes! After a hard swarm with the team I left and met anlocksmith in a McDonald's parking lot on our way to Vermont. Oh thank heaven! He did the trick and I was in, now I could use my deadbolt key until Jesse got back to make another copy! We finished our way to Vermont, a few quick pullovers on the way...and one giant dent on the truck! I turned too hard getting out of a tight spot. I didn't even notice until tonight at camp! Dodge's sent sooo easily! Hopefully that means they undent just as easily!!?!? I don't know...I was quite shaken when I found it! Sososos glad it wasn't the airstream 🤑and if we have to have an accident, let it be one where we're all unharmed 🤷‍♀️. Obviously I have a lot to learn. I won't mention the almost dent to the airstream in the McDonald's parking lot. So we got to Vermont, made plans with our friend tomorrow 👍, had a fire tonight and ate a yummy instant pot meal of roast beef and veggies, perfectly cooked 👌, s'mores and fire popped popcorn. We had a good time. Lots and lots of correction today, but I believe it's not wasted! I love these kids and being alone with them is a whole new animal! I'm getting used to it! Narnia just ended, the kids are finally very into it after our last audiobook the horse and his boy. So fun!

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Back to Boston.

After a stressful morning 8:30 am departure from the airstream we ate a DD again which is now encroaching on my sanity and then did the 2.5 hour drive to Boston to drop Jesse off for his flight to Seattle. Then we tried to track down the swan boats but they were out of season. Flop. But we picnicked in the park which was nice. However Blue + the plethora of eastcoast squirrels = nightmare dog. Somehow we survived, the long bathroom lines no parking city life. Then we got outta there and took our time getting back to the airstream which was ready for pick up. On our way there were a few potty breaks, a few peeing into bottles. And finally car seats. We stopped to get new car seats. Driving without, although legal at all their weights now, was really starting to freak me out. And now that I was driving alone today, that meant today was the day! After the initial push back from the kids we got to a happy place and picked one out for all three. Happy to be in NH no tax and happy they were on sale! It took me a while to get them all out of packages and in the car in the parking lot and by the time that was over it was definitely dinner time. Luckily there was a chipotle right next door so we went in our new car seats feeling totally at ease as I drove. We waited in a line going out the door and this was defiantly the hardest part of the day! The kids tested me in every kind of way my fumes were off the charts but somehow again by the end we were ok and had food to put in our tummies as our reward! We played spelling B over dinner which the kids all really liked. We made it back to the airstream, read bible, goodnight! Miss having scaffolding for a plan in place. Right now I feel like I don't know the next hour. Gonna give that some thought after the hooplah of a morning I have waiting for me tomorrow. Hitching up and riding out to either see a friend or who knows where. The weather is getting cold so quick. I'm thinking we better get this thing all cozied up real soon! Jesse will be gone a week so we'll need to make a quick call once he's back! Until then I feel like finding a place and staying put while we get some good one on one time in! Highlights: today Jolene caught Blue quick when he got off leash in the big park in the middle of Boston! Betsy offering her help to me since dad is gone! Jed and I getting really into the fidget spinner on the car ride to drop off dad.

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New Hampshire, Maine.

We left our grassy place in Vermont and made sure we stopped at the market on the way out for maple syrup goodies for Christmas presents for the fam! That's where we bumped into a Japanese foreign exchange student who wanted a look inside our rig. First one so far aside from people we know, we were prepared for this, I was as happy to oblige being that she was from so far away ✌️. We drove through New Hampshire. Fun stops on the way. Like the rest stop with the woods where the kids got their staffs and saw a chipmunk upclose with its checks filled! There was a Dunkin' Donuts run. Which are literally on every corner in the east coast! I think there's more DD's here than there are Starbucks on the west coast. Actually, I know there are! I was happy at that point Jesse took the wheel, this was turning into an all day drive. I'm sure there was another stop in there somewhere but I'm not recalling it now. So then we arrived at the airstream repair shop where we have had and appt for weeks. And dropped off and quickly went to the mall to hit up H&M for a suit for Jesse since he is flying back to seattle tomorrow for Jacksons funeral 😔. I went into pacsun because of marketing and I actually found two tshirts and one hat that I loved! Then we replaced some broken fidget spinners and went back to our "camp" for the night at the repair shop. We gotta be outta here at 8:30 am and it's already midnight. And I might have made the mistake of expecting too much out of the kids too late and almost everyone had a break down to some degree before bed tonight. We tried to redeem it all before their eyes closed and I think we did but it still sucked. Bad mom. Hoping and praying for a good send off for Jesse tomorrow, good sleep tonight and a good week without him, it'll be tough but we'll manage! Looking forward to mayyyybe bumping into a friend of mine this weekend!

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Burlington.

Jesse had a thing with wanting to see Burlington. A town 40 min out. So we went today after Jesse took the dog, I pilates'd, don't ever really know what my neighbors think. We ate breakfast and then lunch I don't really know what was in between but it was something. Then we left. Got there dropped Jesse off in his spot, yet another coffee shop, never gets old, and the kids and I roamed for a moment the crowded cute street of shops and again found ourselves in a fjallraven soon looking for my winter coat. No luck. We dipped in a few more places and then left to find the library. When we got there it was in a busy part of town and there was no sweet spot to tie Blue up so we passed and went back the way we came and beyond to the water, yup, water in Vermont. Quite a big body of water too! Ferrys and all! There we located the playground, did a tiny bit a school while they ran about, but the next lesson became the tire swing. The good ones that really get going fast and fun that you don't often see anymore. So I showed em how it's done, they loved that. Jesse picked us up about 7:30 and we found a Himalayan restaurant nearby for dinner. Food was aaaamazing! Everyone thought so! We all got home, kids passed out and Jesse and I prepped the place to leave tomorrow. Love having a dog alarm clock that force me awake, but these late nights are getting me! Trying. Enjoying the family God gave me and all their different personalitys along with Jesse's and my own! Counting it all joy!

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Ice Cream.

Once upon a time we woke up in Vermont in a pretty, grassy, quiet RV Park aaaand I forget everything but we eventually got out at 2 or 3 ish and did and tour of the Ben and Jerry's factory as a family. Not much to say but I felt like it was school related and fun at the same time! And that's how we like it. Then we took jesse to a coffee shop in Stowe. A beautiful quiet little town, surrounding a stunning white steeple, with all the things you could want. We want to the library around the corner and wrote books, read books, played with legos until closeting at 7. I looove that library's here stay open til 7 and 8! Then we got Jesse and went home for tacos and fire roasted marshmallows! Everyone talked around the fire, a few snuggles, then bed. And that was yesterday...

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Vermont.

Happy to see this title. We've been waiting to be in this corner of the us since we started. Of course we've had a lot of good times along the way.

Started off well. Just took it easy on this Monday morning. Shopped the stores near us in the parking lot in the morning looking for rain boots for two of the kids. The heat came back today and it was sweltering which was weird but we embraced it. Jesse had his first meeting and some work in the airstream and after shopping we ate lunch and drove to a cute little town called Montpelier. Tiny little crowded streets of old homes looks like turned into stores and still some homes. Around every corner there was alaittle more and more. They had everything could need yet it seemed quiet and small, it really wasn't. Just outsides if there was a lot of land and nature. We dropped Jesse at a coffee shop and went to swimming hole that we happened upon nearby and quickly pulled out the clothes that didn't get all the way dry yesterday and strung them in a line. The kids threw on swim suits and headed down to the water. Jed found a group of little boys playing in mud and playing along with them. The girls soon joined and everyone was covered from head to toe in mud and happy. I cleaned the inside of the airstream with Jesse leaving soon on my mind and our appt with airstream before that, and just to start the week off well. Funny, while I was cleaning they were getting covered in mud. Then we went and picked up dad and drove to our campsite for the night and discussed boondocking (no campsites) the whole way back on this trip?? I cooked s little dinner and we had some good 1 on 1 chats with the kids tonight. Making sure their voices are heard seemed important to me today. Getting pumped about VT and soon ME and then the way back and life in Canada and using everything this trip has taught us. Missing people and family. But enjoying these people and family right here too.

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Boston.

Skip a week, and many cool and some traumatic experiences. I'm sorry Jojo for missing writing about your birthday. But just cause it's not here doesn't mean it's forgotten. I love you.

Today we woke up at Winter Island RV Park with plans to leave for Vermont. We first needed to stop at my Great Aunt's sister, Janny's house to pick up Jed's wallet he forget. Hence me buying him a little persons backpack today. Too many things getting left behind. There we met her daughter for the first time. I also found my Grampa's old church on the way out from there and stopped to take pictures. Good finds to start the day. Then we headed out of town and got maybe 45 min out before I had to pee, Jed wanted food, and we needed gas. We stopped at a gas staikna ma while I was busy doing the things in the back, in the trailer, Jesse moved a bit forward to pull up to the pump and I heard a godawful screeching clunking noise. So we pull to the back of the gas station, a big cement area surrounded by trees and tall grass, and explored the rig. We found out we couldn't fix it and had to wait there for service to come. We knew it would be hours long. The kids made themselves at home in the grass and as I was looking for a way to get in some mom time today anyway I looked up Boston. Jesse gave me his wishes and I went 23 min in a lyft and shopped for a winter coat and backpacks for the kids. I immediately found newbery street and stayed there. Now Justina sitting on the steps journaling. I really like Boston, as far as cities go. The weather is nice and mild. People are nice and weird. It's been real good. Just waiting for my family to meet me now and find a place to pee (that's two times I mentioned myself and pee in this entry).

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The Second Night at Nancy and Henry's.

We woke up to some Dutch babies for breakfast. I feasted on all things out of my diet and am paying for it now as now my diet is now wonky. But luckily grocery day is coming and that should set things right. Anyway, they were great! And more great that they were made with love. (Jesus please bless this food to our bodies!!!) We bid them adieu and set off for an hour drive with extra time for whatever came alongside path, to my moms other cousin Susan's house and daughter and grandkids. Nothing really came along since the hwy we were on was hard to get off but we managed to find a fancy farm to table spot on a farm and stopped there for a very late lunch. Obviously it was beautiful though hidden down some long country roads I'm suprised it's a jammin spot. While sitting outdoors under a canopy with a view of the farm we watched black vultures, tons of them flying over the little pod and gathering in their large community in a dying tree wth it's leaves fallen off. I was surprised at how very big they are and had forgotten how they hung out like that in groups. Unlike birds of prey might do? We ate very yummy things. And left to get to Susan's house on time. We showed up and we're greeted on the porch! We caught up on their big back porch set against the cat tails and their neighborhood walking path. After a while they ordered pizza and went to pick it up and we ate together after getting all the latest news and watching the kids play. They all got along with their other cousins so well. Then we walked to their neighborhood playground which was the obvious hangout for all the kids in their hood, which wasn't very hood at all but more like issaqua vibes. We all had some good chats there and played. The kids kept competing for the time it took to climb the many slides as we timed them all and praised them, ha! Then we came back and Jolene blew a candle to start off her birthday celebrations and we all ate cupcakes that they had planned for us ahead of time. So sweet! We mingled on the couch for a bit and went home. A late night but a good one I won't soon forget.

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At Nancy and Henry's.

Up and Adam at the Walmart again. This time, I went in! Got my instant pot I'd been dreaming of since before we left on this trip. My crock pot lid smashed to pieces somehow on one of the drives, jumping out of the oven where it's stored 🤷‍♀️ and since I had a ton of frozen meat with plans to crock it I started thinking, and Walmart had what I needed.

Gave Jesse a little alone time after my Walmart pick up, he went to a coffee shop. It's not easy being driver, but it's not easier being passenger which is what he's been a lot lately. He came back and we got on the road, an hour, to Nancy and Henry's. We showed up to two pairs of open arms. Blue needed to be caught and tied up because he was bothering the neighbors cows and then nancy invited me in to teach me her recipe for lunch called crazy pizza. The kids sat next to Blue building things with leaves, mud and grass. After we ate I gazed at all the family photos which lead us into conversation about family and looking up ancestry with sister Susan's acct and dabbling in it the rest of the day! Kids still outside, keeping themselves busy. I was feeling very tired all day but pulled through. Then I remember a moment outside watching the kids play next to Nancy on the bench in their backyard. Which is pitted up against a grass field and two corn fields. The neighbors with their cows, rabbits, chickens and puppies in small doses. Henry went out and got us BBQ and served us for the second time around their table. Jesse worked late but threw the kids around in the yard after dinner. And we all retired to bed. Very sleepy now. PA is a living postcard that brings me peace. God's given me a beautiful family.

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Ohio>West Virginia>Pennsylvania.

We didn't expect it but we just knicked West Virginia today. 1 more point for us!

We woke up early and mind you, had a late night, I wasn't awake until after a nap later at 4:00, but regardless we woke up because Emma and Melvin were treating us to homemade breakfast in their home and then taking us on a trip to their volunteer work at the boys camp, all before Jesse had to get to his first meeting at 11:30, at the agreed time if 8am. So we sat through breakfast and did our best to all carry on meaningful conversation through sleepiness. I think it worked. We packed up and ventured off to boys camp where boys go to learn lifeskills for the first time and meet people who are dedicated to their success as humans. Lots of mud and windy gravel roads and outdoor living spaces built by themselves. Amazing stuff here. Then we followed Emma and Melvins directions back to town, still without cell signal. Town was, so small. Cambridge, OH. I think. We ate lunch outside the library we found was closed later. But I didn't care, I was not feeling up to schooling. So tired! After our bout with bees and eating food outside the airstream I broke out a generator and turned on a movie and took myself a nice hour nap! The new pup star for the record. Many people in town with nothing better to do kept asking if we were planning on staying the night there, obviously a big nono, so I reassured them. Then it was on the road again. I drove and Jesse worked. Didn't get far before a few stops were needed and now we're driving into the dead of night. We'll see how far we get. We're headed to my moms cousins home in Meyerstown, PA. But we'll have to stop short because of the time and the dogs in the neighborhood who may bark. So we have plans made fore breakfast. Most likely a parking lot somewhere tonight. I'll check back in later.