To sell or keep the RV......

-
This monster has been on the driveway since we got home from our road trip on August 2.  It's big in the parking lot but its bigger on our driveway.  We only have a 2 stall garage......on a busy street.....with no extra parking.  We have spent a month discussing whether to keep or sell it.  If we keep it, we have to find a way to store it....and make payments on the loan.  If we sell it, we can say it served us well for our vacation and close the door on that part of our family adventure.  That's the concrete version of this or that......and here's my version.


Having this Hurricane on the driveway all summer was cumbersome and inconvenient.  But.  Occasionally.....or maybe frequently......Precious would want to just go hang out there and watch a show on an IPAD in the quiet......or the little kids would go play house in there so that I could fix lunch or vacuum.  Several times (including tonight in an hour or so) I snuck out there for a full night's rest all by myself with no kids or dogs or noises.......and a few times during the day I hid in there as well, just to have a few moments alone.  If we sell it.......where.....will.....I....go?     Also, as I scroll through the photos of our vacation this summer, I am in awe of all we saw and did.  None of this would have been possible without this mode of travel.  We had the best vacation ever.....and maybe there could be more trips in the future if we kept it.  But.  Would we take them?  Could we get everyone committed to leaving for a week or two next summer?  

We work hard and want vacation and we have busy kids involved in lots of stuff......is it selfish and unrealistic to keep it?  It's an old RV.....and it suits us.....but its too expensive for most folks to rent it.  To sell or keep the RV......what will happen?  I don't know, but for tonight.......I'm feeling tired and fragile and spent.  It's still in the driveway today so tonight I'm gonna steal away and go sleep in it all by myself.  Its ours for today yet.  If we can work it out, we will keep it and gear up for next summer......and maybe some fall/spring trips as well.  If not......we will send it on its way with blessing.   

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Superbowl musings, Niki-style

-
 Last week I walked dogs in unexpectedly warm late winter afternoons.  I realized that when I don't walk regularly it matters.  This week I wanted to walk again but I am such a wimp and if it is cold or windy or rainy or all of those things put together, I don't want to walk outside.  I spend my work days in and out and in and out and cold and warm and cold and warm.....but today I needed to walk.  It was cold and windy and rainy.   I started my walking app that tells me when to walk slow, speed up, slow down, speed up and eventually cool down.  In my home office space in front of a cooking competition.  I looked ridiculous walking in place, dancing and prancing, moving foward and backward and working up a sweat but I got it done.  I sure did.   I got groceries because we were out of milk and I got food for "superbowl Sunday" which is not that different from any other Sunday evening.  My parents come over and we have snacks and drinks and then we eat together and clea
Read more

Family

-
Image
  These are my people.  My big kids gifted me for Mother's Day with a photo shoot organized and paid for.  It has always been hard for me to schedule family photos so this gift is extra special.  We did the photos late summer/early fall.  Our smiles do not reveal how hot or windy it was that day.  Yet and still we managed to get some really great pictures, thanks to our sweet and competent photographer...Cassie Beth.   Here is the thing.  This photo tells so many stories...so so many stories.  Each of the 9 of us could be a story, a novel on our own.  Then if you pair up any of the 9 with another, there are more stories to tell, and in groups of guys or girls still other stories to tell.  Looking at Roger and I....chapters and chapters of stories...and separate us out each of us is also a story.  Our lives are stories. I have told my kids over and over that their lives matter.  They were created by God to do something in this life that will expand His kingdom, give Him Glory and ma
Read more

mid-summer check in on being Aware

-
 I remembered today that I had been doing a monthly reflection since January.  I missed June...and apparently July.  Here we are on the second day of August and I find myself aware of it...aware of how June flew by and July slipped by and now I'm settling into August....aware.  June was a full month of ball games and volleyball competition and vacation.  It was also the last month of my fiscal year of my work as a public health nurse and that means there are lots of reports due and documentation needed to make sure we get funded again.  June was a lot and it was awesome...and hot....and busy.   July slowed down a bit with more nights at home, more lazy pool afternoons and a break from the heat.  We caught fireflies and we cooked more meals at home.  We decided to tackle a huge project long overdue and tore out carpetting in our main living area.  This carpet has been there for over 40 years.  It was gross and disgusting....suffice it to say that I am very, very aware of how unsettl
Read more