Can you believe it?
We're coming up on one year in our new house. And what a year that has been. I've been looking back over my last posts here and thinking, wow, we had no idea what was in store for us. When we moved in, the college kids were away. They came home for a month at Christmas, and that was so much fun. And then they went back to school and much tears were shed in our abode. And then a crisis hit and the world went crazy. Having all 5 kids back at home was wonderful, for me. But I know they all struggled. They struggled because they couldn't do what they normally would do at that season. They struggled with the emotions that we as adults were struggling with. They fought loneliness, boredom, anxiety, fear, their siblings, working, homework, sharing a bathroom. But in the end, would I do it differently? No. We were so blessed to have 7 of us in our home, so that each day wasn't quite the same as the previous. We had plenty of room to roam. We could walk out the door with a di