I thought I’d interrupt the story of Our Long Way Home with a post about our life right now. I guess it could be considered a bit of a ‘spoiler’ but there’s not a whole lot to ‘spoil’ at the moment and I’m becoming depressed just reading my own story lol, so I wanted to share some highlights!
*Saskatchewan Beach! Who’d have thought you’d find this in the middle of the farm land!
As I mentioned, we went for a sight seeing trip the other day. We’ve actually gone on quite a few of these since arriving here. Despite all the headaches and hassles, and the fact that our landlord says we’re supposed to be out by the end of June (even though we do have a lease, but he doesn’t want to deal with the health authorities list of health and safety compliance’s needed to be made) and today is May 31st, and we have NO idea where we will go…
Despite all that. We LOVE it here. Absolutely love it.
Graydon (dh) and I have determined, each and every day, to NOT allow all this ‘crap’ steal our joy. Believe me, it has NOT been easy. Even today we had to ‘kiss & make up’ for being snappy with each other this morning. Stuff gets to you after a while. Having no idea where your family will live in just 30 days time, that’s stressful. There’s no sugar coating that fact. With everything else that’s gone wrong in getting to today, it simply compounds the stress! But we have a choice. Allow it to consume us, or carry on the best we can and remain a team and keep our family together as one.
So we’ve been making as many trips here, there, and everywhere as time, and finances (gas is expensive!) will allow, and simply to get away from the stress of day to day life right now.
Yet, even simply being here on the homestead, as sad as we are that we are still not ‘home’, even simply walking the dog(s) out on the prairies with the breeze blowing, Graydon and I taking a quick spin on the quad, or listening to the kids get all excited about the two nests we’re watching (a duck nest of 12 eggs, and a robin’s nest of 4) or all the other discoveries they’ve made, is enough to just make me SO glad, each and every day.
We ARE home, we ARE together.
Saskatchewan, the prairies, IS our home.
We simply have not been able to buy our homestead yet.
We have to keep trusting that we will. Hopefully soon. We’ve decided that we have no choice but to put our homestead on Vancouver Island back up for sale and hope that maybe, just maybe, this time we can get a sale.
In the meantime, we’ll simply do what we seem to do best.
We’ll just keep on, keeping on.
I really enjoy following your family on this adventure!
He has great things in store for you!
If we could purchase your homestead on the Island we would in a heartbeat! <3
We are on our own adventure currently, purging the contents of our home to go camping for the summer in a borrowed (old) tent trailer. I am extremely excited and fairly nervous about embarking on this journey. We have three young girls (5yrs, 2yrs, 7months) that I am sure will have an excellent time! But we are heading off from our "home land" of the Okanagan, where most of our family and friends are, and going to Alberta (for now) where the work is.
I find your stories very inspiring and they help to put my mind at ease. Knowing that even while things can be so very difficult at times, He will never give us more than we can truly handle and grants us with such amazing opportunities to grow and learn!
Thank you for sharing !
WE ENJOYED READING ABOUT “YOUR TODAY”
WE ARE PRAYING THINGS WILL FALL INTO PLACE VERY SOON… FOR YOU’VE BEEN SO FAITHFUL!
HUGS FROM US … ?
Sounds like a real adventure Megan!! We’ve actually been discussing the same option for our family if we can’t find anything else. We have a trailer we ‘could’ live in if we have to! Not sure if I’m up for it since I still have to keep the business going full force, but we have to do what we have to do right! Dh says he could turn is trailer into a shop for me if need be.
Thank you Suzi, we so appreciate you and Emmett’s support! 🙂