The new year finds us renting a small 1950s brick ranch in Anderson, SC. To many, it would be deemed a small house but after a year in a 30' camper, the kids often remark on the large size of it.
Perspective is a crazy thing.
We're still running our RV Inspections & Diagnostics business...and we've added to that by selling a software template that Josh created to aid RV inspectors in completing inspections more easily and with better reporting options. (It's rvprocheck.com, in case you're curious.) We're now continuing to research how to build online platforms and apps and are considering where this can lead in the future. We never thought this would be something we'd work on yet now we are passionate about improving this little digital slice of the RV industry.
The kids are growing and changing. It's crazy to look back at pictures from when we launched and see how different they are now. Josh and I have changed as well - though aside from a higher percentage of gray hairs the changes aren't nearly as noticeable.
As a couple and as a family we find ourselves more willing to take risks. We are more apt to consider an idea than we were before this adventure. I would say that a lot more things seem optional rather than crucial but the truth is that there are now some things we deem crucial that had been optional in years past.
I think our perspectives have changed.
John was recently telling me about a computer game the other day, explaining how when you start the game only one square of the map is lit up, and when you venture out new sections will light up as you enter them. I didn't bring it up in that moment but I smiled as I thought how often that analogy has been in my mind. Our goal with the kids is to light up as many areas of their map as possible, not to conquer each quest, but just so they know how broad is the scope of possibility. While we sit in a brick house in Anderson eating pizza they know they know there is a restaurant in New Mexico serving the best gorditas you have ever eaten in your life. They know that there is a beach in California where the waves have carved small caves in the cliff faces and smoothed the rainbow-colored stones on the sand. They know that there are fossilized dinosaur tracks in a river bed in Texas and that come November pecans are being harvested in Arkansas. They know there is a lava rock mountain in Arizona with both a large wooden cross and a hidden geocache at the top of it. And somehow knowing those things enriches the season here in Anderson.
Perspective is an incredible gift.
We have no idea where we will be in the next year, or even in the next month. There is the opportunity to have fear with those uncertainties but where there is the opportunity for fear there is always the chance for faith.
And that is our perspective.
Oh...and we added a goldendoodle named Sadie to the family. :)
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