May 25, 2004--Going to Indiana

We just got back from Indiana last night. We left early Friday morning and spent a full weekend with our families. The reason for our trip was my husband's sister's wedding. Erick was an usher, and we really did a good job packing this time, or so we thought. We had quite a complete packing list.
Erick worked all night the night before we left, and the plan was that he would come home, help me finish packing, grab some breakfast, and we would leave at 7:15. He could nap on the way and also work on the sermon he had promised to preach at my parent's church. By the time he got home, I was ready and raring to go. We just needed to load the carrier on top of the van. I packed all the kids in the van, and then he told me he needed a shower. We all sat and waited for him to finish that up, and took off...only to have to turn around at the first exit because he had forgotten his hearing aids. By that time the school buses were out and we had to wait.

We made pretty good time once we actually got going. The kids were good and didn't fight. They colored and read and slept, and Erick slept too, and half-way through Illinois he awoke with a start. "Did you pack my suit?" he said. I thought he had packed it. Apparently not.

When we got to Lafayette, we went to Goodwill and picked out a suit for him--a jacket, pants, a shirt, and a tie. We paid $15 for it, and it actually looked nice on him.

We stopped in Delphi at The Well to see my parents in action at their coffeehouse. I had heard so much about it in e-mails that I was eager to see it for myself. I'd heard testimonies of all that God was doing there and how it was so crowded. Well, the crowded part turned out to not be difficult to achieve--it was a lot smaller than I had imagined. It was cutely decorated, but it looked more like an antique store than a coffeehouse.

After we visited for awhile, we went up to their house and set up the tent in their yard. The kids all spread out their sleeping bags on the floor in my brothers and sisters room and we went to bed. I stayed on the couch until my family came home and then joined Erick and the baby in the tent.