It's a busy summer...

Posted by Lisa Laree to Beer Lahai Roi

Despite my best intentions, I didn't  get the Joshua post written last Thursday so I could publish it on Friday, since we hit the road Friday to take the Actor's Pile to him.

The pile of boxes and stuff that he left in his room when he drove to Florida, awaiting the signing of an apartment lease so that he would have, like, a closet to put the boxes and stuff in.

Well, he signed a lease about a week ago, so we loaded the minivan up full and headed south.

Y'all, it had been nearly 14 years since I was last in Florida.

But it was to a women's conference in the very city and very church that now employs my son.

You can't make this stuff up.

His apartment is a furnished lock-off (bedroom and bathroom) on a 4 -bedroom dorm-style room.  Common sitting area, eating area, kitchen and laundry and three other locked-off bedrooms with one guy that he knows slightly and two random dudes assigned by the housing complex.

It's about all that fit his budget.  Starting at the bottom.  But it'll do.

We took our time driving down, stopping for the night in Valdosta..no hurry, and we didn't want to wear ourselves out.

So we got there around 11 AM on Saturday, unloaded the car, had some lunch, and went to go check in the hotel whilst he shuffled through the stack of stuff to clear things enough to actually, like, sleep.

We puttered around until we could check in, chilled in the room a bit, then went to an ice cream place and talked for about 2 hours.  The next day, we went to church.

Which is so much like our church that it didn't even feel different.  Had some awesome worship, heard a great word, and got a look at the children's area, which was all decked out for the summer theme, that you totally cannot see from this angle.

He manned the exit door after the service.

Dinner at a dad-place (read: barbeque), then we hugged him bye and headed north for a few hours, stopped and drove the rest of the way on Monday.  Totally avoiding Atlanta, by the way.

Back to work today.

Not sure how often we'll get down to see him...but I bet it's not another 14 years.

Not sure how often I'll get my Friday posts up and how many times I'm going to miss it.  There's a lot going on in the next two or three months...but we'll catch up as best we can.