This summer has been a delicious whirlwind of family and friends, sunshine, travelling and fun. With very little else thrown in. Hence the silence on this blog.
Oh, I suppose there’s been food. There’s always food. Good food. which explains the squishiness I’m pretending does not exist around my midsection. But but’s another post for another day.
We can hardly believe that school starts in 4 weeks – where has the summer gone?! I was quite certain these three months would drag slow and hot (in the unsexiest of ways)…but then we bought a camper. And we’ve ventured out every chance we’ve had since, hookin’ this bad boy up to our truck and heading for the hills.
We went south, to Indiana, where we hit up the Great Lakes Vineyard Pastor’s conference, and spent the evenings chilling with our friends around a fire while our littles slept inside. We headed east, to the ‘thumb’, and settled into the backyard of some of our favorite people for the July 4th weekend. And we’ve headed west, for our annual Manistee ‘family’ trip. It’s been fun and exciting and gloriously relaxing not having to pack, and then unpack, all our camping basics.
We are totally sold on this camper thing.
Why on earth did we engage in the trauma of tenting for so long? Sheesh. ‘Glamping’ is the life for me!
In the mean time, as we wrap up our final summer days at home, I’m preparing for my first book-signing on Wednesday, with the lovely Shannyn Caldwell from Family Life Radio, and then I’ll be preaching for the first time at our home church (yeow!) on Sunday…and then, we’re heading for some mega hills!
We’re loading up and venturing out on our biggest trip next weekend : we’ll call our camper home for two weeks as we gallivant across the beautiful upper peninsula. This girl is giddy with excitement (and highly likely in denial about the amount of meal planning involved in such a trip). And the amount of laundry I’ll be buried in when we get home. But… It’ll be a blast and the memories we’ll create will be well worth it.
So to celebrate…there just has to be a camper art printable on this blog. But of course.
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