Journey of a Thousand Miles: Catchin' Some Rays

Tuesday, November 13, 2012

Catchin' Some Rays

So yesterday Lydia and I got all dressed up to go to the pool for Aquatots. We had our bathing suits on, along with various layers for the cold, snowy weather. Our road was super-icy. I drove slowly, hoping that they would be cleared once I got into town. Made it to town and the roads still looked bad. I still had a ways to go to get to the pool, so I decided it would be smarter for me to go back home. :( So we missed our first day of swimming.

We got home and Lydia was just so stinkin' cute in her bathing suit. So I put our beach towel on the living room floor and let her catch some rays. (I know, I'm a dork, but don't judge until you see how cute she is.)

Here she is, pretending it's a hot summer day at the beach:

See? Totally worth it to let her hang out in her cuteness. Don't worry, she's appropriately clothed for the season today.

3 comments:

Karissa said...: I can't believe you're roads are icy. This picture of Lydia does make it feel like summer though. Maybe if you all walk around in swim gear you can forget it's winter?! That might come in helpful around month 6-7 of winter :); November 14, 2012 at 10:58 PM
Twila said...: I agree the stinking cute deal can't wait to see you all!; November 16, 2012 at 7:24 AM
Jodi said...: Look at her! I love the two cute little rolls on her cute little chubby little thighs! Makes me just wanna pinch em!; November 18, 2012 at 8:48 AM

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"A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step." Lao-tzu

July 1, 2008
This journey so far has taken me one thousand and four miles from my hometown, but I’m having trouble putting my finger on the single step that began it all. Was it Monday afternoon at the border when they gave me my official document allowing me to pass? Was it Saturday morning when we started the car and drove out of Goshen in our funny little caravan? Was it in February when we came up to Red Lake for a job interview at the hospital? Was it two Christmases ago being up here with Kendall’s family and all of us rating our desire to live up here? (I can’t say my number on a scale of 1 – 100 was high, but it was the highest of all the in-laws, so I guess I’m the chosen one.) Was it three years ago almost to the day that Kendall first said, “What if we’d move up here?” (I tried to ignore that one for several months, thinking surely it would go away.) Or was it June 10, 2000 when I married Kendall and made some solemn promises before God and all these witnesses? Was it a night before Kendall and I were married when we talked about moving to Red Lake? (It was a far off and romantic possibility at that time.) Or was it living in and visiting different cultures at different times in my life? Could the first step have been when my parents brought me as a baby to this same area for a year of voluntary service? (Kendall wasn’t born yet, but I surely saw his parents as they chatted with mine from time to time.) What about when my dad lived on a nearby reserve for two years before he was married? Or when my mom visited this town with her family as a teenager? Or maybe it had something to do with choices my grandparents made? Or other ancestors farther back?

At any rate, moving into this house where I slept for a few weeks as a baby and where my dad stayed as a teenager, has made me very aware of roots. And how they affect our lives and choices and passions.

I suspect there is no single step that began our move a thousand miles away from Indiana. It seems, rather, to be a coming together of so many different factors. (Not the least of which is marrying a man who has taken this land as a very part of his being. And for all the ways I can tease him and get annoyed at some of his woodsman ways, I really do mean that in a reverent and respectful way.)

So here we are, a thousand miles from nowhere. (Oops…I meant a thousand miles from Goshen.) I know that we safely made the journey here, but mostly our journey is just beginning. And mostly I’m excited.

Journey of a Thousand Miles

Tuesday, November 13, 2012

Catchin' Some Rays

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"A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step." Lao-tzu

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