After 6 months of staying in a variety of places with faces we loved across Kansas, Colorado and Iowa, we finally found a spot to call home for a while.
Moving yet another time required some adjustments from all of us, and a lot of help from family and friends.
We happened upon a gorgeous rental cabin in the woods outside of Evergreen. Although people live nearby, evergreen and aspen create a visual wilderness for us to relax into. Wildlife is abundant and entertaining for the kids to watch. The air is cool, evenings cold. The kids are developing their mountain legs and enjoy short hikes up the road or around the rocks and trees that create our yard. We are settling into the routine of a family with little to do in these last precious days than to be with one another.
Its not Haiti. Its not Kansas. The quiet is taking a little while to get used to. But how happy it makes me to have Solomon and Cici learn the word for fox, tree, hummingbird (that one is pretty garbled, but they seem to be convinced of the pronunciation), and hike. Truly we've found a place to continue the healing process, the bonding process, and that will ease an immigration back into this country with the cushion of nature to soften the hard difference between very different realities.
Love the little cabin sanctuary you've found for this season. I'm off to Haiti this afternoon for what is likely my last visit... bittersweet as you know. You all are certainly in my thoughts and prayers.
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