Roxaboxanatterbuswhat?!?!

Apartment is empty of everything and we are back on the bus full-time! Even the sleeping baby, though she doesn't quite have the hang of it and, while she LOVES being in Gramma and Nonno's driveway for a bit, she has been asking when we are going to go home. :(

I know for a fact it is these fabulous neighbors that she misses cause she asks for them. Thanks ladies for all your care and companionship!

Being back in the bus feels like slipping on an old pair of cowboys boots. It just fits so well. The kids definitely need constant change to keep them challenged, involved and out of each other's hair!

There was quite a bit, and still is, organizing that has to happen to fold us back into compact living. Much trial and error of what we need now for school still, for cold weather, for being parked at Gramma's with no water/sewer, and then for being on the road STARTING JUNE 11TH!!!! It approaches so rapidly that stress is not even a word I can speak without a sick feeling in my belly...mostly because it is compounded by some ugly dentist and doctors appt. before we leave. But that is a story for another day. The next week or so I will be painting the roof...all are welcome!!! :)

So the kids, JR and I have been working on an official name for the bus. We started writing this crazy poem in an effort to find our way to it. The poem involves references to various favorite children's stories that involve oddball homes, creative living situations or just fun bus uses. I will scatter the poem among the pics, though it won't space or format it the way I want it. Feel free to write with additional verses or to guess which stories are referenced in these verses: Roxaboxanatterbusblack Devoid of flavor and built by Jack Roxaboxanatterbusblue A boy with some sheep and a mom in a shoe Roxaboxanatterbusred Wolves are all in and the pig out instead Roxaboxanatterbusgrey One home rebuilt and one blows away Roxaboxanatterbusgreen The friendliest earthship that you've never seen Roxaboxanatterbuspink A squash and a squeeze to make you rethink Roxaboxanatterbusbrown She and her farmhouse spin right out of town

Roxaboxanatterbusyellow Life in a factory with this sweet fellow. Roxaboxanatterbusgo A Magical ride and the Friz runs the show Roxaboxanatterbusfree A house in a wagon or out on the prairie Roxaboxanatterbussleep On granny's belly we snore nice and deep Roxaboxanatterbuscuddle A knit place for mole, rabbit, hedgehog to huddle. Roxaboxanatterbusdream Of faraway places where the wildest beasts scream

Roxaboxanatterbusswim Window agape for a fish to fly in Roxaboxanatterbusspin I wish we could go there and they’re off again Roxaboxanatterbussand She builds up a castle, they set sail for land Roxaboxanatterbusfloat Each Tuesday is different, Frog, pig, maybe goat

Roxaboxanatterbuswee The adventure begins and we live where we be! See you soon on the open road! S.