On The Road Again!

We are moving AGAIN!  We are officially without a home at this moment, but not for long.  We arrived in Lee's Summit, MO on the 31st of October after a long drive, awaiting the call from the moving people to tell us when our stuff will arrive in Texas.  Then we're off to meet them and start things there.  Craziness!

Lee's Summit is my(Emily) home town so it has been lovely to be here with my grandma and hopefully will get to see a few friends during our stay here as well.

We arrived mostly uneventfully, but we slightly resemble the Beverly Hillbillies as we're driving in a caravan of 3 cars (because my parent's are helping us and have their car as well) holding 4 adults, 2 kids, 2 dogs, 1 ferret and a bearded dragon, plus mom & dad's dog, Buck.  All we need is a rocking chair tied to our roof and we'd be official.  I was so exhausted from the week of getting everything together that I didn't think I could safely drive to our destination the first night.  We didn't arrive until 2 a.m.!  So my mom drove in the dark in the mountains and in the rain over some very big bridges in a car all by herself.  If you added in a snake somewhere in that equation, you'd pretty much have her every phobia imaginable.  But, she did it and we even went the speed limit most of the time!  Yeah, mom!  Unloading into the hotel was comical in retrospect as we unloaded every person, suitcase, animal, cage, lights for the lizard, & cleaning supplies (because our dogs don't always make it to the paper).  If we are going to be vagabonds, we much pare down our baggage!

We arrived in Lee's Summit just in time for Halloween, and because Pikeville never celebrates Halloween on the actual day, the kids enjoyed two nights of trick or treating and handing out candy.  They were in heaven!  Now we are just resting and recouping to ready ourselves for the fun part--the unpacking.  This Halloween did not  pass however without remembering our last.  On that day last year Grant was enrolled in Hospice and the journey that was watching him die, kicked up a notch.  Although there are many times I miss him so badly I almost cannot breathe, I just kept reminding myself that day that this year, my little cowboy wasn't about to die, but he is now truly living as God had always intended him to!  Praise the Lord for hope!

I Corinthians 15:55
"But when this perishable will have put on the imperishable, and this mortal will have put on immortality, then will come about the saying that is written, 'Death is swallowed up in victory.'  Oh, death where is your victory?   Oh death, where is your sting?"