With some minor delays, we are back in action

Hello and welcome to the start of what hopes to be an encouraging adventure. My name is Brad, and I have become "retired". I am 38 years old. I am married to my lovely wife Julie, and we have 7 children (our 8th is due around the new year). This blog was put on hold from when it was first created. In fact, it came very close to never being created at all. You see, we had a fire and lost everything materially in the world. Then we had a struggle with the insurance company while they investigated to see whether we would be insured or not. Fortunately, we were, but that is all part of the past. As I said though, it did delay the start of this. For several months we travelled to a Lake in Saskatchewan, to a city outside of Calgary, to the West coast of BC, to the capital of Idaho and Montana. It was a time of soul searching. It was a time to see where are values were and what our hopes were for the future...and now, here we are.
We presently reside in a small Saskatchewan town. We still have the large project of putting together the insurance claim, plus homeschooling our children, plus outside social and church activities, plus I am continuing some education that I always wanted to finish. In short, it's a busy world. However, I think it's a world a small minority would want to see, and perhaps be a part of.
It is a simple world in many respects. It is a world free of some burdens that we had failed to notice and felt they were part of our "leisure and enjoyment". If you are interested...we invite you to come along.