Road Trip: 2.5 weeks later CLEVELAND

Views of Lake Erie are pretty.

Sign entering OHIO from KY to complete our last State Sign #15

We made it to Cleveland! Each day on our road trip we would start the morning with prayer and then play "Cleveland Rocks" by The Presidents of the United States of America. So it was also only fitting that we played it as we rolled into Cleveland OH on Wednesday. I told myself that moving is 90% mental with a  ton of 10% logistics :) So for 3 weeks we have been playing "Cleveland Rocks" in hopes to absorb that feeling. Of course, you know like I do that it is fun but mind games do not last. After rolling into Cleveland on Wednesday, a call from Cleveland Clinic occurred about changing start date (which would have been bad due to insurance), all 3 kids began vomiting into the weekend, we are living out of a car/hotel, trying to sign a townhome lease, house hunting with a realtor to understand area, pre-employement business, school interviews and assessments, and being glued to google maps as we drive around town aimlessly..... we are exhausted. It is a weird feeling of being in a place I am now suppose to call home that doesn't yet feel like home. This move differs from our one to Seattle in that we know no one and mainly are not going to be joining an already forming community of believers with a common purpose. When we talk to Westlake Christian Academy yesterday, the thing I enjoyed most was being in the company of other known believers and sharing our faith. I desperately want to be in community here. Please pray for church family and guidance on where to live. We know our purpose is the same as it was in Seattle, make the gospel of Christ known. It is just a mourning process as we left  close family in Seattle and comforts/routines.  When I haven't been able to sleep in our extended stay hotel (boo!) I have been mediating and resting on His promise that He knows where will live, our neighbors, new family,  and all of our next steps. Candy sent me an article that I could relate to while processing the lost of life and people we enjoyed and loved. But I love how it reminds us that Jesus wept, grieving is okay, and that He provides all that we need.

It is an old city, established in late 1700s 

Pictures of first few days in Cleveland....

They liked playing on Cleveland sign at Edgewater park

And the playground at Lakewood Park (double swing!)

And another in Bay Village 

hotel life until Tuesday... lots of  Sleeping Queens (picture found on phone by Levi); lunch and ice cream in Rocky River