Love GPS

When it comes to love and family it is better to go manual than electronic.  What I mean by that is, if you pay attention to all the instructions and detail that are required to use an electronic GPS you can still end up lost.  Sometimes it is better to remember the simple things, 2 real people.

Another couple from Alabama got lost on the same road that the family from San Francisco did a couple of years ago in which the father died searching for a way out.  This recent couple used their car GPS.

Greg and I were talking about our move to Oregon.  Oct. 31, 1988 Greg is escorted out of work at 5 PM with his final paycheck.  No notice, no party, no severcence package...a new company had just taken over his and the Vice-President was let go.  Arrives home to his family, wife, 8 yr old son and 5 month old son.  Next day, I high tail it to the hospital and get my job back ( I had quit to be a stay at home mother) and Greg with little time to feel any shock, is now home schooling the 8 yrs old while taking care of the 5 month old. In the first week, we had made the decision to move. I took a 5 day trip around the Pacific Northwest with a 5 month old baby trying to decide where I wanted to move because Greg's first and only choice was Bend and well...mine was anywhere but Bend.  I came back secure at least for the moment that Bend was the logical place.  So in less than two months from "don't let the door hit you in the ass on the way out" we had decided where to move. Greg had made a trip with a friend to Bend and secured a rental for us to live (Sisters. I found a job in Redmond.  We had sold our house, packed up 8 years of living in our little farm house, said good bye to family and friends...arriving in the snow covered landscape on Dec. 26th.

In less than two months our lives had changed...but, how did this all fall into place...manual  GPS.  In retrospect, we knew one thing, being apart never was a consideration.  Without that huge elephant in the room our total focus was how to move a family forward.  Manual GPS takes two people, one to drive...one to provide direction.  Our "togetherness" was a given, no discussion, no...what is best for me...no "my needs or wants."  By leaving this one item out of the picture we provided ourselves with the "strength in numbers" concept.  We could see ahead clearer because it always included all of us...no if and or buts.