But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you.
Matthew 6:33 NKJV

But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you.
Matthew 6:33 NKJV
Y’all, I love my reMarkable 2 tablet.
So many things about it are perfect for me. It’s lightweight. It’s easy to read in most light conditions. It’s file system makes sense. It’s versatile. It saves space.
You get the idea.
I first looked at this tablet based on the recommendation of my friend Kaye. She has the prior version and loves it.
Since we live and roam full time in our 24’ travel trailer I thought reMarkable could be a good solution to my paper notebook habit. I love to journal and have used composition notebooks for years as my journals. But with limited space I needed a new option.
I love to journal longhand and really didn’t want to journal in my phone’s notes or in Word. I love the feel of physically writing. Something about it feeds my creativity.
In the three months I’ve had my reMarkable 2 I have grown to value the options it gives me for writing whether it’s journaling, brainstorming, draft writing, or even planning.
And bonus-it’s lefty friendly! Yay!
Happy Monday!!
It’s a new week with new opportunities and new challenges. Hope it’s a great week for you.
So, we’re working on changing some things in our camper to make it even better for us. More on that in a couple of weeks.
Today, I’m asking for your help. Have any of you used this product? If so, I’d love to get your thoughts in the comments. If we end up purchasing it, we would use it for a freezer only.
If you have experience with a similar product but different brand, I’d love to know what you think?
The heavens declare the glory of GOD; and the firmament shows HIS handiwork.
Psalm 19:1 NKJV
You know the Boy Scout motto?
Well, we were not great Boy Scouts.
We were most definitely not prepared.
We moved from our campsite near Knoxville, Tennessee to a campground in southern Middle Tennessee on February 12. We knew a winter storm barreled toward the south central part of the country, but after checking multiple weather apps it looked like it was going to perhaps just skim the edge of where we scheduled to camp for three weeks.
We were wrong.
Very, very wrong.
We arrived the afternoon of February 12. We headed into the nearest town on Saturday morning February 13 to buy groceries. We got up Sunday morning planning to go get propane, but the roads were covered with black ice. We tried to get out of the campground, but slid all over the place.
We turned around and came back to the camper.
According to the weather apps we use we were going to get up to 0.2″ of ice followed by up to 8″ of snow over the next several days. Temps that just a few days before were predicted to fall into the high teens were now predicted into the single digits.
Great.
The storm hit.
The temps fell.
Our water froze.
But we have much for which to give thanks.
On Tuesday, February 16 people came around to make sure everyone had propane. We were able to get both our tanks filled. With temps in the single digits at night we were burning through propane even though we set our heat at 55 degrees for a couple of days and did not use our stove except for coffee.
Even though our water froze in our camper, the spigot outside did not. We were able to tote water from outside to run through our Berkey water purification system to drink. We could also use the toted water to flush our toilet.
Until the black tank got full.
And frozen.
Thankfully we have a Thetford Porta Potti. That came in super handy. In fact, we like it so much we may remove our RV toilet and use the Porta Potti until we can get a composting toilet installed later this year.
We did not lose electricity. That in itself is amazing! We were able to run our small space heater on low to augment the propane furnace.
Finally, on Sunday, February 21 we were able to get out. We drove to Lawrenceburg for groceries and propane. I can’t describe how great it felt to get out and drive somewhere.
We learned a couple of lessons during that week. Probably more than a couple, but I’ll get to those in another post. I’m only going to mention a couple here.
First, God’s provision is no joke. Were we comfortable? No, not always. Were we concerned about our frozen water? Of course. But we had enough heat, enough water, enough food, solid electricity. We had everything we needed. There were many who lost power, ran out of propane, food throughout the country.
Second, neither of us is a fan of cold weather camping. I knew this about myself already. But that frozen week brought home just how much I dislike temps below 40 degrees. I’m all about chasing mild weather. And, that’s our plan going forward.
I made some other personal observations, but that will also be another post.
We’re just beyond grateful to be on the other side of the winter storm of February 2021.
I’ll be the first to admit there is nothing now, never has been, and likely never will be anything about my life that is Pinterest ready. LOL
Y’all, real full time RV life is messy, dirty, cluttered, and often organization in progress at all times. Yes, it’s amazing and I’m so grateful we’re living it. But don’t believe the staged photos. Nope, don’t do it!
Also understand that most campers are not designed with full time RV life in mind. Most are designed for a week or two vacation a couple of times a year. Or a hunting weekend. Or a tailgate weekend. You get what I’m saying.
So we’ve discovered the sofas in our camper are some of the most uncomfortable furniture we’ve ever encountered. Of course, you can’t know that in the 30 minutes you spend walking through campers at the dealership.
Today we’re removing the jackknife sofa in the slide out of our camper. We had hoped to put a small table and a couple of chairs in that space, but the slide out in our small camper is over the wheel well. This means the slide out does not go all the way to the floor of the camper. Therefore we won’t be able to use the space for a table. That’s okay. We can still use the space for our little plastic dorm room cabinets and Daniel’s ukuleles and Jade’s bed. Much better use of the space than this horrible sofa.
Praying very hard this works as planned. All I know is that I cannot spend one more day trying to work sitting on this thing.
Sow for yourselves righteousness; reap in mercy; break up your fallow ground, for it is time to seek the LORD, till HE comes and rains righteousness on you.
Hosea 10:12
This list makes it sound like we don’t love our camper and RV life. That’s not the case. We love our camper and our truck. It’s true we’ll love RV life more when it’s safe to travel again. But we are so grateful to be living our dream.
However, it is true that you don’t know what you don’t know. Even after two years of research and lots of soul searching what we thought at the outset would work great for us turns out to maybe not be the best choices.
With that, here are five things we’ve learning from our first five months of full time RV life that we want to do differently.
Even with these five things we’d like to change, we wouldn’t change the choice to take a chance on full time RV life. We still think it’s the best way to live for us. I’m sure in five months I’ll have five more things I’ve learned. Every day brings something new, for sure.
I’ve been thinking a lot lately about Romans 12:2, about transforming my life by renewing my mind, by adjusting my reality based on what I know about God rather than living stagnant based on how I feel. The verses in the image below give me a direction for study for how to put this into practice. My vision is the same, but I’m learning that it’s God inspired. I’m learning that God has already provided the tools, weapons, resources I need to walk in the vision He’s given.