On the Road
The year here in Johnstown is spinning fast to a close as spring speeds up our days with weekend trips, evenings at friends' houses, guests blowing in and out of our house, and the rushing toward the end a bit faster every day. New Day ends this week, our Sundays at church are limited, host family nights are well counted and summer plans intent on splintering our now family are hardening quickly. More and more frequently, as we approach our end, we've looked over our shoulders at the last nine months and laughed at our comically awkward first activities together, the painfully silent car rides and our unbelievable first impressions finally revealed. We laugh now at the time when we were such curious strangers because now we're such a curious family. Like a family, we now know each other's tastes in food or fashion, we share pillows and shower times (mostly without complaining...), we tease each other relentlessly, we ask each other every day, "How was your work?