We are in a new season . . . again.   That’s the thing about seasons.  They keep changing!  Just about the time you start to manage one, really get a handle on it, it changes again.  And when you have kids, well, that’s a whole mess of seasons in itself!   This most recent season, Steve has started a new job which requires a bit more travel.  I am eternally grateful that he turned down many of these kinds of positions in the past, so that he could be present during our boys’ growing up years and so that we could live close to our families.  But in this stage of life, we both agreed God had opened up this job for him and that travel in this season could be just fine;  especially since I can go with him sometimes!

So on our first ‘work trip’ recently, we gave this…