It's all good.....

On Saturday, I decided after many requests from my mother and several from friends that a blog post way past due!
The problem: after many failed attempts, I can't get even get one of the myriad of pictures to post on my blog
 while using this little tablet. It is frustrating and I want to just wait until I can a proper blog, but that might take eons. Instead, I will try to pluck out a bit of a story on this finicky little typing pad.

It is a long story, that can be summed up with one phrase you may have heard that has echoed through my brain many, many times in the past several months. Here goes:

"LIFE is what happens when you are off making other plans."

We had plans.


Those plans ended abruptly just two weeks after leaving Vegas on August 3rd in Medford, Oregon where we were staying in The Knight's Inn while our van's transmission amd brakes were being replaced.

Patrick was working as usual when his boss called to inform him that his job as a contractor for Fox would be ending that very week!

When hired, the job was projected to take 6 months to a year.

Things change!

The only thing to be done was to look for another job.

Amazingly enough, the very next day we had three job interviews lined up 5 hours North of us in the Portland area for the following Monday!

After a much needed weekend camping retreat im Sunny Valley, OR, we we were on the road to find a job and a place to live.

By August 8th we had a job offer in the Portland area.

We now live in a place with LOTS of trees AND LOTS of tech jobs....just like Patrick wanted to begin with.

I have Trader Joe's and a rental where we are allowed to get chickens AND an IKEA!


It is an absolutly gorgeous place to live....even if we were sort of placed here.

I know that it is where God wants us to be at this time.

It has been an adjustment for sure!

Much of the things we are adjusting to are wonderful but I am not going to lie or paint a perfect picture that doesn't exist.

Many things are dowright hard.

Thankfully there is so much good.

Pictureless.

An unfinished post from the middle of August...
I have a problem. I have a very, very hard time creating a blog post without pictures! I don't have a way to get the pictures onto this computer to help me write this blog entry and it's driving me nuts. BUT....
It's high time I put something down here anyways just in case you were wondering what in the world is going on with the Morris.'

First off. I just have to get this out in the open.
I "live" in a TRAILER PARK!
Just in case you are as clueless as I was before embarking on this epic adventure, lots of  people live, full time in RV's. I had no clue. But now I do, because that's just what we are doing! It's not half bad if you find a top notch RV park like this one, although I would NOT suggest doing it for long periods of time in a trailer that has only 84 square ft. of living space! It's a tight ship in here to say the least, but we are managing fairly well and are excited to say that we are in the market to purchase a home....or rent. We are not sure which at this point. I would have to say that after being here for 2 weeks now, I love it too..... I am just praying that when the rain comes (and it surely will) that I will maker sure I do what's necessary to cope with the clouds.