An excerpt from a book that I'd like to write

( I thought I'd show you an excerpt from a book that I'd like to write based on the life I have with my family. I hope that you can give me feedback on what direction I should take with the book.)

Crazy Goodenough Adventures:
In July, when their surroundings in Spirit Lake were just getting warm, Leon said it was time to go. Jennifer and Havilah and the rest of the children took one last walk to the mailbox and back. They said, "goodbye", to the trees, the fluffy clouds and the gravel road. 

Jennifer had said, "We're not going to Chile for the view or we would stay where we are". Then with a sigh and a longing look she had added, "There's no place like Northern Idaho for beauty and fresh air."

On Thursday, 14 large suitcases, 11 backpacks, several pillows, laptop bags, and books  were loaded into the van. In the morning the whole family got in and additional items were piled on and around them, to give to their family and friends in Portland, until the doors would almost not shut. 

Zuriel asked, “How will we get out when we have to go to the bathroom?” 

Leon answered, “All you children will have to crawl over the seats and through that one back door.”

It seemed like a very long and sweaty trip but it wasn't too bad, especially on one stop when they had climbed back in with a large bucket of cherries and cold water.

What followed was 5 days of BBQ's, goodbye's and continuous packing to add new items to luggage that had already been weighed and measured laboriously. Then came the morning that they had all been longing for and dreading for so long. The morning that the older children would never forget. 

Leon set out 11 bowls and spoons and 4 boxes of cereal and woke the children at 3:30 am. "Okay everybody, get dressed and come into the kitchen. I want you to try to eat some breakfast before we get on the plane, but be very quiet so we don't wake Grandpa and Grandma".
Every day for the past year they had each had to give away something that they would have rather kept. Even now, in the last moments before departure, many of them turned away from chosen belongings. Pillows, shirts, pants, a couple books, a stuffed animal... they just couldn't try to carry all that stuff along and still get the luggage and the little ones safely on and off planes and in and out of taxi's all the way to South America.

After that They climbed in the van each wearing a winter coat. It was too warm for those coats and Havilah would have to bite her tongue to not complain before the trip was over. 

She asked her Papa, “why do we have to wear our coats?, I’m not cold.” 

Leon said, “11 more coats would fill another suitcase and that would be a waste of money. We can’t leave them behind because it’s winter now in Chile and we will need all our coats right away.”

Most of the children had not been on an airplane before. Ephraim had gone with Leon once to scout out land to buy in Idaho.  That was when they still lived in the suburbs of Vancouver, WA. Naphtali had gone on a scouting trip to Idaho as a baby. Zuriel had gone with Jennifer and Leon to Alaska when she was just two. Zion and Sim had both flown all the way from Liberia, Africa with Leon when they were 8 and 9 years old. That’s before they could even speak to their new Papa or anyone else.
It took 3 planes, 2 large taxis and 28 hours to get from Grandma’s house to their new home in Santiago, Chile. They were there in hopes of proclaiming the gospel through their lives, their music and their relationships.
Jennifer stumbled into the cold house that would be theirs for the next 6 months, sat in a daze on the couch and said, "what do we do now?"