I am so tired right now but I wanted to blog that we made it to our hotel around 11:00 tonight. It took an hour to get everything in and the kids to bed. I should be in bed right now myself but really wanted to go online since there was free access and see how things were going for Scott. I hadn’t heard from him today but I saw some posts by others on the Mission team. I also got to see some new pictures. It sounds like everything is going well there. I pray every night that God will help them as they awake. And every morning I pray that they are able to sleep well.
I decided to drive later tonight than I did last night. We had stopped at Boomland in Missouri for a restroom break and to let the kids stretch their legs. It was about 8 p.m. when we stopped there and I decided I was feeling pretty well, that I could drive a little further tonight while Elijah and Jonathan were asleep. I figured that would leave us with only 6 hours to drive tomorrow. Check out time is 11 a.m. tomorrow so I hope that we are able to make good time in the morning. Even if we left at check out time, we could drive 3 hours and stop for a break or lunch and drive another 3 hours and make it to Michigan before it got dark. That’s if we can manage to keep our stops short. We tend to take a long time getting back in the car after we stop. Having to change two dirty diapers in one stop doesn’t help any. But I think we will be able to do it tomorrow. Especially if I go to bed and get some sleep here in a minute.
Last night we stopped at a hotel and the three older children wanted to sleep in one bed and I let Jonathan sleep in my bed. It’s amazing how much wriggling a two year old can do in his sleep. I had fallen asleep or was about to and suddenly I was kicked hard in the back. I turned around and found Jonathan was laying sideways in the bed. So I repositioned him correctly on his pillow. Then I tried to fall asleep again when suddenly I was hit in the face by his hand. Then I was afraid he might fall out of the bed with all his moving around. At one point he even put his head toward the foot of the bed trying to get comfortable. It was crazy. I moved him back the right direction again. If he does it again tonight he might wind up sleeping on the floor. But so far he seems to be staying still over there. He must be too tired to care which position he falls asleep in.
I had a slight emotional moment while driving tonight. My shoulder was sore from being too tense while driving. I have a problem tensing my muscles when I drive at night. I was all tense when I thought about how Scott would rub my shoulders. It made me sad a little and in the dark I allowed a tear or two to fall. I also thought about how I’ve never seen this much of the country before. Usually Scott and I take turns driving and sometimes while he drives, I fall asleep. This time I have been awake the whole trip. I reckon that is a good thing. But I miss him terribly.
I’ll end with a picture Hannah took today. I was trying to get pictures of everyone in the van. The only one I couldn’t get a picture of from my driver’s seat was Elijah so I gave the camera to Hannah. Here is the picture she proudly took. I have four copies of this picture in my camera. It must have been the first picture I’ve ever let her take with my camera since she was so proud of it. I did have Ruth take another picture and Ruth actually got his face in it.
Well, I had better get some sleep now. From some of the messages I’ve read on Facebook, I’m hearing that God is doing some amazing things in Thailand. He’s been taking care of them and He’s been taking care of me and the kids as well.
I’m looking forward to tomorrow. I better get some sleep though. I don’t guess the Prov. 31 woman didn’t let her candle go out by night because she was blogging.
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