While Sharon and her sister, Rachie, were driving around Port Charlotte the day after Hurricane Charlie had hit they literally hit a fork in the road. They had to get out and pry it from the tire. Little did we know how symbolic that would prove to be as we hit a huge metaphorical fork in the road just a couple weeks later when we lost are place to Hurricane Ivan. Which as most of you know led us to buy a motorhome and travel full time for the last 3 and half years. We saw people and places and places we would never had seen otherwise. My photography got to take on a new level. I got re-inspired to paint again. And the One Shoe Diaries was born out of the journey. But we are now putting the traveling on a back burner for a bit. It was a tough decision, but one we really did not make of our own free will. It seems God (or whoever is in control) had plans for us…
Sharon and I have been blessed with a child on the way. And also as many of you know this was not planned. We were well on our happy way to just having Jack and Jinjer as our children. But here we are, at another fork in the road. We did several tests to make sure, we tried to convince ourselves we were just reading the stick wrong, maybe we did it wrong, the stick might be old and defective. But nope, they were all correct. Sharon is with child. We tried even to deny the weight gain, her increasing bra size and morning naseau for a couple of months. But we have to face it, we are having a kid. So at age 38 I will be a father for the first time. Man i hope I have the energy to rise a child :) We are cautiously excited, because we want to get an ultrasound to hear for sure we have a healthy little one growing in there.
However we can tell you, we will NOT be selling the motorhome and already have plans to do a “Baby Hamilton Tour” when our year lease is up so we can visit family and introduce our newest roadie :)