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7 Weeks of Summer, 2014

Posted by | September 14, 2014 | BAMBINOS | 5 Comments

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The J-M’s Summer, 2014

Last summer was our first since moving onto campus. We spent the bulk of it traveling away from home (7 Weeks of Summer, 2013 post is here). We loved it. This is a major perk for us of living on campus: because we have no mortgage we can justify the financial cost to travel, and because we have no house/yard/property to maintain we have the freedom to travel. This is big for us.

Summer 2014 was the best summer of my entire life. It was crazy — yes. And it had its challenges — yes. (This kind of travel with 2 ten-year-olds, 1 six-year-old, and 1 puppy is sort of crazy-challenging!) But it was crazy good and challenging good. Oh my gosh, it was good!

We spent 4 weeks in South Carolina, 1 week in Mexico, and 1 week in New Hampshire. With travel days in between, it was a total of 7 weeks. We spent exactly 4 hours at home — only to unpack and re-pack once. We did not sleep in our own beds one night.

In fact, we didn’t sleep in our own beds for 10 weeks. On June 4th movers came and packed up all of our possessions from our tiny on-campus apartment. On August 12th we slept in that apartment again for the first time— but in a greatly enhanced, totally renovated, twice-as-big apartment. Over the course of 10 weeks, while we were (technically/literally) home-less, our apartment was completely reconstructed. That is a whole story that will be appearing soon in a separate post. It was a big summer, to say the least.

Technology is an amazing thing. Because of it, Braydon and I were able to work from wherever we were all summer long. With only one exception (a work trip that Braydon had to make, in order to be at some meetings in person), we did what we needed to do to keep all of the balls up in the air for an entire summer away from home. As a result, we got to spend an enormous amount of time bonding as a family, relishing our kids while we still can, re-grouping, and re-charging. I’ll never regret the time and money we spend on this sort of thing. All of the other sacrifices we have made, and continue to make, in order to be able to live this way are so worth it.

Thanks for following along on our journey.

I am sorry for my lack of posting in the past month. Since arriving home in mid-August I’ve been completely succumbed to an incredibly intense period of unpacking and re-settling our new home, starting school for me and the kids, re-establishing all semblance of routine, and starting up another year.

Our life is rich and full beyond belief. Thanks to all who find some reason to read here. You inspire me to keep on posting. And I promise I will be better about it in the days to come.

Happy Fall!

~heather

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“I am crabbing at the marsh.” ~Meera

5 Comments

  • Candis says:

    Just happy to know everyone is well and not stranded on some deserted island awaiting rescue. Looking forward to pics and stories. Welcome back for the 2014-2015 school year.

  • Amy F. says:

    Welcome back! Excited to hear about the new place :)

  • Tricia says:

    Glad that you are healthy and happy! I love following your blog (and I fit a couple boxes of your reader-demographic!)

  • Hope Stevens says:

    Welcome back! I was wondering if you’d be back to Lehigh for a 3rd year. Can’t wait to hear about the new place!

  • Kate says:

    Welcome back! I must have missed your 7 weeks of Summer 2013 — was fun to click back and see the rhythms of your travel seasons — sounds so wonderful and well suited for your family.
    As you know, I enjoy following along your Blogging and am so grateful for all your efforts posting and sharing. I like your latest blog layout update, it’s nice and clean and easy to read.
    One little thing — I miss being able to easily read the posts back and forth – such as when you linked to your last year post “7 years of Summer 2013” I wanted to read the post directly after that but couldn’t click to read it. Hmmm maybe I’m clicking wrongly. Look forward to reading through the upcoming posts!
    – Kate

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