Long Way

This past week has been rough. I am partially blaming it on a growth spurt.

G hasn't been sleeping well at night and has been up every couple of hours, that makes for a very tired set of parents! 

Yesterday we took G to the Dr. I had been suspecting he was not gaining weight, a problem we thought we had resolved in his first week home. I was right, he was about 2 oz lower than his lowest recorded weight when we brought him in for his first appointment. Our poor little guy! No wonder he isn't getting those cute chubby cheeks and rolls most babies have by now! So, the Dr. has us supplementing with some formula to see if that gets him going {which presents it's own set of potential problems}. Please pray our little guy starts gaining!

Today, as G is sleeping strapped to my chest in his wrap, I started to print the pages to put together my own household notebook. I have wanted to make one of these for a while with all our important information, phone numbers, useful information - all things to help the house run smoother and to keep everything in one place. With our next move closing in and looming over my head I really wanted to get this project crossed off my list. Plus, now that G is here I seem to lack a good deal of brain cells and anything to help me stay organized will be welcomed! 

As I printed the pages I heard the song "Long Way" by Antje Duvekot. I have heard this song before, and although I am not particularly a fan of this artist I really listened to the lyrics for the first time. It seemed very fitting for the day as I think about moving once again:

We bid our friends goodbye

We promised we would write them

And headed north up 95

Into the great unknown

We turned up our stereo

And felt so reckless and alive

We didn't know who we would be

We didn't know where we would end up

When we headed down that road

A little food and our guitars

In the backseat and that old cello

The one that would get stolen

In a town in Idaho

And it's a long way to Michigan and back

And it's a long way

Cause it's a long way, the clouds upon our backs

And it's a long, long, long, long way

And I have never seen

Reflections of the cleanest

Of blue as the Minnesota lakes

Those were the longest nights

Of wood smoke and Northern Lights

As we talked until the morning came

The light of glowing embers

As sweet as I remember

Among the rustling of the trees

The legend of the harvest moon

And sweet ballad of the loon

I felt as ancient as I was meant to be

And it's a long way to Washington and back

And it's a long way

Cause it's a long way, the clouds upon our backs

And it's a long, long, long, long way

I called you from a payphone

In windy, cold Missoula

And then from Midland in the rain

A place as proud and sad as

The South Dakota badlands

It touched me more than I could explain

The dirt poor reservation

Where the Avala nation

Tries to hang on to its ways

Feather and Peyote pipe and

A six pack of Miller Light

Sits on the dashboard of a beat up Chevrolet

And it's a long way to Tennessee and back

And it's a long way

Cause it's a long way on the worn out heels of Kerouac

And it's a long, long, long, long way

Out in California

We touched the other ocean

And I still have that jar of sand

In the Arizona desert

The sky goes on forever

You've never seen a thing as grand

And North Montana was cold

She keeps her secrets frozen

Under glaciers way up north

And people have got lost up there

In the home of the grizzly bear

And you can ask the mountain

But the mountain doesn't care

And it's a long way to Delaware and back

And it's a long way

Cause it's a long way, the clouds up on our backs

And it's a long, long, long, long way

Cause it's a long way on the worn out heels of Kerouac

And it's a long, long, long, long way

Oh, and before I go I want to share a recent decision J* and I made - - G and I will be coming home for a couple of months when we leave here! I can't wait to see all of you back home and to introduce you to G! If you want more details leave me a comment and I'll get back to you via email as I don't want to say too much on here.