PE-AY

PE-AY, P.A. ... however you read it, it's Pennsylvania!

Oh, these travels are good for our soul.  Reconnecting with special friends, seeing our children renew friendships, enjoying conversation that sharpens our minds and refreshes our spirits... it's one of those unexpected gifts of this season.

We spent 2 nights and a day with the McCready family.  Ellie and their youngest, J, picked up where they left off last summer.  From the back, they sort of resembled each other with the same height, hair color and length.  I think she might have come with us if we asked her. ;-)

From there, we made our way to the Tomlians!  We met the T family when we were both living in Wilmore.  Deb and I were part of the same Bible study.

Our kids love friends, little or big, it doesn't matter!

A really fun development to our visit was the discovery that Ashley had been planning a college visit to Liberty University in Lynchburg.  When her ride to Virginia had to cancel, Ashley nixed her plans.  We were excited to tell her that Winnie would be heading to Lynchburg, the very day she had been planning to go, and we'd be happy to give her a ride! A couple of phone calls later and Ashley was packing her bags and accompanied us!  Ellie wondered if Ashley would be traveling on with us, and if we'd be introducing her as part of our family!  

This is totally unrelated to this post, but before I forgot, I had to share a Reni quote...

We were at a park this afternoon and Reni had a couple of shadows that followed him around, probably a couple of years older than him.  After several minutes, one finally asked Reni where he lived.  Reni looked at him and matter of factly replied (as if it's totally normal), "In an RV."