Cabin Day Seven

Brain cancer is...

A granite outcropping in the forest near the cabin

 ...feeling satisfied with our new routine.

My husband is brilliant.  He's the one who wanted to break our record of "consecutive days stayed at the cabin."  Upon Day Seven, we can confirm that (a) we've surpassed our previous record soundly, and (b) we may never come back down the mountain. 

Staying for seven days has allowed us to get over the novelty we always experience when we step out of the car and smell the mountains.  Now we've built a daily routine that looks like this:

• Wake up with the sunlight in the room where we spent our honeymoon.
• Enjoy breakfast--and later lunch--on the deck.
• Do chores for a couple hours.  (Darrell does the chores; Andi looks like she's doing chores.)
• Walk in some beautiful place.
• Have dinner at the dining table.
• Walk Beowulf...now and at three other times throughout the day.
• Sit on the deck and listen to the wind in the trees.
• Start a fire.
• Do homework.
• Enjoy a movie.
• Appreciate one final Beowulf walk, gawking at the bright stars.
• Go to bed.
• Sleep (but first read until it feels decadent). 
• Repeat.

We are beginning to feel that if we maintain this routine, we might create a world wherein we won't need to come down the hill to speech therapy, blood work, scans, and doctor visits.  Maybe if we stay here, we can keep the world the same, and small. 

Not really, but we are learning the gift of enough time away to settle in. 

We hope there is beauty in your routines today, Team D.