Greetings from Pile-ville, USA!
Wish we could say we'd been drinking iced minty tea and watching the kids play while we grill lovely things, but we're not quite there.
You might say we're still in the, "How are we supposed to live with all this stuff?" phase of joining the real world, a strange thing some folks encounter when returning to the States after being in third world countries. After the last trip we filled huge bags for Goodwill until the trauma passed and our life felt simpler.
This time? HA!
Here goes:
Packing and sending the oldest 6 kids and Curtis off to Family Camp today. Bus wouldn't fit at the campground, and taking the Littles to hang out in a tent 'til Monday with people we love..... and 2000 mosquitoes?! Looking forward to naps, baking gluten free cookies and picking apricots.
(Recalling life with no big sisters and thinking.....Hmmm. Maybe we'll just nap:)
Figuring out who still has decent shoes and who needs to learn to read.
Moving from the trail mix, string cheese menu back to real meals.
Packing dvds.... Dr. Jobe Martin's family visited Thursday morning as we were loading up about 407 Priority boxes in the living room. But! Cousin Angie and her tribe are blessing our world by doing all of our shipping and phones for a while longer.
Organizing plane tickets and interviews with 35 folks for AGENDA 2 in September and October. Praying for just the right ones with just the right words.
Continuing the blog, because the upcoming season here looks rather interesting, and I wish I'd kept better track of the Lord's goodness along the way with AGENDA:)
Praising the Lord for being so loving to our family, for supplying our every need, and for giving us unique opportunities to serve Him.
We are so very thankful for your prayers and are so glad (I think?) to be home.
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