Hurry Up and Wait!

You can't stay in your corner of the forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes.

A. A. Milne

     Well Winnie, we are doing our best! Waiting, waiting, waiting, our lives have been consumed with the hurry up and wait-s! Standing here at the starting line is becoming tedious and mildly painful, sort of like a sprinter with jock itch!

     Currently wild fires are burning all throughout Colorado. The nearest is 15 miles south of us. The air is acrid and hot. The particulate count is high which means Jacob, with his asthma, is pretty much sequestered to the trailer, not easy given that we have no air conditioning. Each time we plug it in the circuit breaker pops and the brief 3 minutes of cool hangs enticingly in the air until it’s swallowed whole by the heat. There is a certain relief in knowing that if the fires get closer we can hook up and pull out of the area and all we need is with us.

      The Full-Time Family rally in Montrose starts the 1^st so we are just kicking around waiting, waiting, waiting! Dentist and Doctor appointments, meeting with the PT, one final pedicure, a dog grooming…Maybe we’ll take off a little early, kick around the Gunnison area with our in-laws. They have patiently put up with us moving in for hot water, then out. In due to leaky roofs, then out, in from smoke and heat, then out… (I do have hot water now, AND clean hair!)

     So, like it or not, we are all learning about flexibility. Since school let out, it has been MUCH less stressful for us all, easier without a million places to be. We are starting to settle in to the routine of having no set routine. Things still catch us off guard at times. Last night before Aiden fell asleep he said with a tiny pout… “I am just not USED to sleeping with a bunk ladder right by my head! This is a small space!” But by morning, he loved his bunk once again, all is well. Keep your fingers crossed that the fires turn and are controlled, that ad-sense works soon and the blog gets some advertising and that the heat subsides or we find some free space and move to cooler waters soon!

L.