When Hurricane Florence made landfall in South Carolina, we were forced to take the inland route to get from Florida to North Carolina. We therefore looked at Google Maps, and randomly picked a town to stop for a day. Thomasville was this town, given its location and historicity. We also chose an Airbnb location for our accommodation, and chanced upon this charming place - Popes Store Museum. (Check out the listing here .) We realised that it is actually the oldest folk art museum in the country, and dedicated to Laura Pope Forester, a folk artist from the 1900s who built more than 200 sculptures to honour great men and women such as World War Two heroes Eisenhower and MacArthur, the first woman senator Mrs W. H. Felton, Revolutionary War heroine Nancy Hart, Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden, and many others. The place has an interesting history, and many of the sculptures were destroyed by a previous owner, who in a drunken fury, felt that the sculptures had outlived their use...
This is a story of our parenting journey. We became parents by Purpose, on purpose. It is our heart to continue this journey in a purposeful posture; and to bring up our children so that they will know and understand their purpose in life.