When they spend quality time with their two sons, Jessica and Rick Biddlecom opt for a lot of activities that can be done indoors.
Monday night, the family sat around their coffee table assembling an image on their Lite Bright.
“This is a car. This is a truck. It’s a monster truck, I think,” Jessica laughed. “We need one of these.”
They need a monster truck because their Citrus County home is a work in progress. The home itself is perfect and beautiful, but the neighborhood streets surrounding it are unpaved and, at times, almost impassable.
They live in Inverness Village 4, a growing neighborhood outside Inverness. They moved there in 2021 to escape the cold weather of the Buffalo area.
“After many, many years of extensive illness throughout the winter months, our pediatrician specialist recommended that we try a different climate,” Jessica Biddlecom said.
Their two boys, who are 21 and 14 years old, not only have respiratory diseases, but they also have autism.
WFTS Inverness Village 4 should have been a place for them to play outside and become more socially and physically independent.