Keeping up

Hello land of lines of text and the occasional picture!

Today is Thursday and on Thursday we have awaken to the grey skies of a typical English spring. Yesterday while walking around the countryside of the Rivlen valley with Bethany School on walk "C" I thought I had been transported to some other warm sunny beautiful place. It was the euphoria of a sunny day out that made us think about holidays (vacations to you yanks). The Bode's have never been annual holiday takers. We just have not been able to afford it. And we have always combined "ministry" with time way. Most of all our children rarely get a proper holiday. The kind where you go somewhere to relax and don't do anything and don't have a schedule to keep to. A place in the sun. When they were quite young one time we went camping. I thought it was a holiday but Lyssa did not think so. One time we went to stay in Chicago, but to try and save money we stayed at a cockroach infested apartment where the kids were sleeping on the floor covered in roaches. Yuck!!!!!
One time we had our best holiday ever, but sadly not with the kids. My folks took us to Mexico, to an island called Cozemel. Wow, that was great!!!!
So yesterday Emily was begging to have us as a family go to Corfu an Island off Greece. She was looking at pictures. And she was looking for flights and hotels.
We have and do lots of things. Things, many people will never get to do, try, see, hear, experience. Maybe if we can get ourselves more financial footed or find a real steal of a deal the Bode's can have a week or two in the sun just relaxing.