What in the world are we thinking?!!!

What in the word are we thinking?!!!  As I watch my highly energetic 23 month-old scramble around the living room at a mile a minute, I can’t help but ask myself this question.  After all, we are planning to take this child and her equally energetic pre-teen sister on a 30+ hour trans-continental trip next Fall. . . just to turn around a month later and do it all over again.  And we’re taking school on the road (and in the air!) with us.  And we have to raise $17,000 to do it.  What ARE we thinking? Honestly, it’s tempting to tremble and quake when we think about the logistics of everything that needs to be done in the next year to prepare for our trip to Papua New Guinea:  planning, fundraising, visas, a passport for our youngest, finding people to fill in for...