May 24, 2015 – Dayspring Disciples

And I am clearly moss free, friends.

We’ve been Very Busy since school concluded. But it has been the good kind of busy. The progress-is-being-made and appointments-are-being-kept kind of busy. Mostly. I won’t digress any more than that.

In the midst of our madness I happily jumped into redecorating the big girls’ room. We went to Walmart on Mother’s Day and they each picked a color of paint for their bedroom. One chose Tinkerbell and the other chose Enchanted Purple. Together – they look delightful.

We scurried to prep the walls on a Friday before I headed out to work for the evening. Then Saturday morning Tab and I finished sanding and away we went.

Once I started painting indoors, Tabitha started painting outdoors. Like mother like daughter.

The walls were in very rough shape. When we purchased the house 8 years ago we had about a day and a half to slap paint onto the walls in this room. I had to paint over very rough walls and never did the trim wood. I spent far more time prepping this bedroom than I normally have to. That put my paint-application-starting-time much later than I had hoped, and I was only able to complete the purple and cut in on the green on Saturday.

Sunday after church the boys had a cast party for their movie, “The Land of Jacon,” so I started the green LATE… but continued until it was done.

Monday brought running around – Stewart took an entrance exam for dual enrollment college classes. That took some of the girls and I to a bunch of stores – including the craft store.

I am not crafty. But I am ~~cheap~~ frugal. I wanted something pretty for their light switch and outlet plates, but I didn’t want to spend $5+ on each one. Crafty people online told me I could glue glitter all over the plain ones and call it awesome.

Can you even stinking believe it???

Then Saturday morning we put it all together for a gorgeous bedroom.

I still have a giant flowering tree decal to go on that plain green wall, but the walls have to cure for three weeks.

Maybe I will actually remember to post it.

As we’ve been planning this trip over the last three-to-four months, we’ve received a wide variety of reactions from people. Some gape, some beam, some smirk, and others look incredulous. And that is just within our own home.

So – yes… we are heading out to the open highway with the goal of visiting friends in Oregon. We will traverse 16 states along the way. God-willing we will see odd rock formations, (both naturally occurring and sculpted); climb mountains; span badlands (what makes them bad?); and dip our feet in the Pacific Ocean.

We intend to sleep in 7 hotels, a vacation rental, and our friends’ home.

We intend to avoid fast food as much as possible.

We intend to watch as many movies and utilize as much technology as our van’s battery can handle.

And we will likely visit more gas station bathrooms than I care to think about.

Please join us in prayers for traveling mercies.

Psalm 121:8

The Lord will keep
your <sup class="crossreference" data-cr="#cen-ESV-16090A" data-link="(A)”>going out and your coming in
from this time forth and forevermore.