HoppoTabi2022

 Yes, it's true. I did indeed put "back home" in quotation marks....we are back. We are in our house again, but "home" is wherever we are together. You know?  So, we were away from our house, that is true. But, with being together...our home was wherever our RV took us. I'm grateful that 'home' is wherever we are together! It is a very bittersweet feeling.  We miss being on the road and traveling together, and all the experiences and opportunities.  It's an adjustment. But, it is also good to be back in our house.  I think the piano has been used practically non-stop!  I love listening to the music.  Here is Ryah and Sierra together, Ryah playing and encouraging Sierra in her singing. It's the cutest!     One of Sierra's personal development goals for this next while is to learn to cook and make a few things. I've taught her to make eggs and such. But pancakes is one of the new ones she wanted to learn! Jonnie worked with her, helping

For New Year's Eve, we stayed in Midland, Texas. Janson was always such a cuddly kid....but now he's a BIG kid, getting a kick out of sitting on my lap. Ha ha! Probably do-able since I'm not a tiny mom. (I just can't last as long as I did when he was little).  We were laughing about how many Walmarts we've been to all across the country--grocery shopping trips, and also the multiple times we stopped in a parking lot and slept for a night (for free!).  So, we needed a picture in front of a Walmart, with the RV, to represent all those visits! One of our favorite stories was at a Walmart in Ohio. We had been out east, where many states would either make you pay for plastic bags (if you didn't have your own) or they just wouldn't provide any at all! So, when we got to Ohio, we asked the checkers about it, if we had to pay for bags or if we needed to use our own....and she was genuinely confused. So, we explained about the stores out east.   She shook her head an