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Our 1st Vancation

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We finally got everything working! When we first got the van the previous owner (let’s call him Louis) told us that the bed works and that the van could get him from point A to point B. That’s all Louis knew.     He didn’t know if the sink, toilet, shower, refrigerator, or A/C worked. We ended up ripping out the ugly carpet and pulling down the curtains. We laid down our own floors and sewed our own curtains. We insulated the van so we could stay warm and we made sure that everything worked. Finally after all that work we were ready for our first real vancation.   We decided to go to Escalante, Utah to hike and repel. We went with family and caravanned there (my family usually caravans just in case anything happens to one of the vehicles). We also like getting out together and playing at parks and eating lunch together. We did go to a park together this trip and it was fun until Josiah hurt his shoulder really bad, we aren’t sure if it is a broken or sprained but either w...
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Mechanics and Curtains

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Mechanic: Josiah and I were driving home, Josiah in the van and I in our car. I was following Josiah and there was one car in between us. We stopped at a stop light and were waiting for the light to turn green. When the light turned green, Josiah didn’t go and the car in front of me but behind Josiah started honking and I started worrying. It seemed like the van wouldn’t go and everyone was going to be angry at us. However, Josiah jumped out of the van and then the “angry” guy behind him helped Josiah push the van. Not only did the guy help Josiah push the van but like 4 other guys jumped out of nowhere to help Josiah push! It was crazy that so many people were helping and that they didn’t even stop to think if they wanted to help they just jumped right out of their cars and some even ran across the busy street and helped push. It made me feel really good and made me even more excited to see more of this beautiful world with beautiful people. Thankfully, we let the van rest overnight a...
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Anxiety!

We have been inspecting our van and realizing how much work we need to put into it. It’s been stressing me out big time! I will try to focus on one thing that needs to get done but then another thing pops into my head and I think I should work on that instead. This anxiety is making me get nothing done because I keep going back and forth on what I should do. So, I came up with something silly that has actually been seriously helping my anxiety over this van and I think I will start using this trick for all aspects of my life.  I came up with CALF for September and PBS KIDS for October. CALF stand for curtains, auto-mechanics, laminate (floor we walk on), and floor (flooring under the floor). Now whenever I am working on the curtains I don’t have to keep thinking about all the other things I should be working on because I know I’ll get to them and won’t forget them because they are just part of the word CALF and CALF is really easy to remember.  PBS KIDS is for October and I’ll...
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Buying our van

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        Have you ever wanted to do something but knew that you probably never would actually do it?   Maybe for you, it is going bungee jumping or maybe it is swimming with dolphins.   Well for me it is traveling, or I guess I should say “was” traveling.   I no longer can say I will probably never do it because we have already bought the van!          So a little back story, my husband and I had been talking about traveling but we weren’t sure if we wanted to just go in our Prius and sleep in a tent, buy an RV, buy a truck with a tent on the top or buy a van.   We honestly still hadn’t decided what we wanted when we saw a van for sale in our town.   We decided to check it out just to see if the van life was even an option and we ended up all falling in love with that van.            Our daughter probably loved it the most and that was a big deal for me.   Whe...
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