1.19.24 Daring Endeavor

We have an exciting tidbit to share with you. Our main gift to the kids for Christmas (with the help of the hospice foundation) is… a family trip. 

You read that right. Yes, it is absolutely wild and daunting that we are even willing to consider it, yet it feels like a right choice to make right now. In the early summer of 2021, just a few weeks before Aimee’s spinal fusion, we took the family away for 3 nights to an airbnb just 10 minutes from our house. It was a delight and we all hold that time as a special memory. This will be a much more challenging trip, but we think we can do it. We hope that we can do it. 

We tried to consider what we could possibly do as a family that would have a big impact, but also have everything contained in one building and be financially possible. We settled on Great Wolf Lodge with its indoor water park and onsite food options. A location where no matter how Aimee is feeling, everyone can be in the same building. The staff there have already been incredibly accommodating of all of our needs for power and room rearrangement. 

I will come back with an update soon, but wanted to share a piece of positive news with everyone. Please pray that all goes well. We have so much help to make this happen, including a friend milking the cow, our niece feeding animals, hospice smoothing the way for accommodation of our medical equipment, funding, and Ed’s parents are going to come help us haul a trailer of Aimee’s furniture/supplies. It has been a feat to even get to this point and we haven’t even packed yet! Loading up this intensive care unit and taking it to another location for 2 nights with be a major endeavor. Pray for us. Really could you? We are so hopeful that this can be a special and delightful memory for our kids of our whole family together on an adventure.