Day Four and Five in Wisconsin By J. Denielle Morey A cold has hit the household in full force. I wake at 5 am and can’t breath. I am congested and my energy is drained. I come down stairs and lay on the couch and get another hour of sleep. It helps. We have…
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Parfrey’s Glen, Devil’s Lake, and a lesson about biker gangs
Day Three of Worldschooling and Housesitting By J. Denielle Morey We awake again at 5am; it appears the sun gets up early here in Wisconsin. I make everyone stay in bed until 7 am. We have an easy breakfast of yogurt granola, and fruit or cereal. The kids read scriptures on their own and free…
Day One: Immortal Thoughts
As I watch my family drive off without me By Kyle LB Morey “I am an immortal being having a mortal experience,” I say to myself as I awake from a dream. The details of the dream fly away like balloons bursting with helium. Noticing a light in the adjacent bathroom, I suddenly have an…
On the road to our adventures in housesitting
Day 1: Driving to Wisconsin By J. Denielle Morey I awake with the alarm going off at 3:45 am this morning. I roll out of bed, take a shower, dress and finish packing up the van. Kaelyn awakes at 4 am to do her makeup … don’t know why. We wake the children at 4:15 am…
Supersize me!
Packing the minivan for 3 years for a family of 7 By Kyle LB Morey “What do you pack for a three-year worldschooling adventure for seven people when all you have is a minivan?” I ask Denielle as she zipped up another small suitcase. “What’s essential and what’s not?” “Each family member gets a backpack…
Did God just thank me for my service?
Our last “midnight” in Anderson By Kyle LB Morey “It’s the last Sunday!” I sing on the way to church to the tune of the witch’s ballad sung in one of my favorite musicals Into the Woods. “Can you turn on the real music?” Kaelyn asks from the back seat. Denielle agrees. “I pray today that each of us…
What will be the consequence of our choice to wander the earth for three years?
By Kyle LB Morey “Goodbye,” I whisper in my sister Maria’s ear as she prepares to leave. “I love you and will miss you greatly.” I mean it. It finally hits. Our decision to sell our house and become wandering worldschoolers has consequences. Maria wants family close by for her boys, my nephews, to…
ABCs of salvation in one weekend
“It is an incredible weekend in the Morey household,” I tell Cheryl and her friends at Clifford’s baptism. They are visiting from one of the oldest churches in Anderson (IN). “We adopted little Lydia this morning, baptizing Clifford this afternoon, and blessing Lydia (baby blessing) this evening!” “You should call it the ABC weekend,” says Cheryl. “Adoption,…