Yes, I know, it’s been ages! I did start to write something a while back, but didn’t get around to posting it. We have been trying hard to adapt to everything here again. One wouldn’t think it would take this long to get acclimated again, but it really is taking this long. When we first got back we had to figure out new cell phone service, cause we were d-u-n DUN with contracts. We had to get our van insurance back up and running – we actually drove around without it for a while, cause we forgot. It turned out that the van needed new tires because of winter weathering – woohoo. We also decided to get a new internet service because we left our expander in Costa Rica. Then there was of course all the dreaded unpacking and whatnot. Our small apartment became unbearable in a few short hours. It was truly depressing to be here. Thankfully, we actually hardly were here at all, because of all that running around, not to mention running around with Eddy visiting us for two weeks also. We ate out a LOT more than normal, cause we are also still adjusting to David’s new hours – 8-4 instead of 6-2… this also meant that Maeve has been going to bed much past her bedtime, much too often. We also all managed to get sick with obnoxious coughs. The lack of sleep may have had something to do with that. Maeve was pretty under the weather, while I got off the easiest and only have had to blow my nose a few times amidst all the coughing. The sun hasn’t been shining as much as would be nice to lift our moods in the past week. It’s been a little hairy. Thankfully we seem to be rounding the bend, health wise. We were both feeling ready to jump off our balcony, or at least have a good cry this evening because everything felt like it was piling on top of us so bad. There is, of course, much more I could blather on about in reference to our very full lives, but it’s all a long story and hard to explain – what is that verse? Paraphrasing, no one understands another’s heartache and none can share its joys. Something like that. I know that we all tend to over simplify each other’s lives from the outside looking in. But yeah, in reality, we all have a lot on our plates and the grass is not really greener anywhere. Hmm, well, if it is, you’d probably find there ‘s some well-spread manure making it grow. And while we may think we’d like to experience someone else’s grass, I’m pretty sure none of us has any desire to be exposed to their manure. In these times when I’m at my wit’s end, I’m still SOOOOOOO thankful for the life God has given us. We are blessed. We hope to get some pictures up soon… various obstacles there, too, but soon… we also still need to file taxes. Priorities, you know. I wrote this while I was waiting for one of the necessary documents to magically appear. But now I need to eat something and then back to the grind. We should probably go to bed, too. Before I go, I want to give Eddy great accolades for cleaning up our place for us on Monday while we were at work. It was an incredible blessing, and actually, an incredible feat :-) He was a stellar guest. Here’s a little blast from the past – like a week or so ago:
Last night, in the weird state between dreaming and waking, I found myself “casting out” a blanket hanging over our window, or maybe it was part of the crib by our bed, “in Jesus’ name”… freaked David completely out, since he happened to be awake at the time, and he misunderstood me to say “leave us, please!” in a rather low, sluggish voice (I was surprised I was able to get anything audible out at all – if you’ve ever had a dream where you’re in slow motion, you’ll know what I mean. It’s like your mind is half awake – enough to take some information in, warped though it may be, but your body is not awake at all, and can’t move. When I am having a bad dream and am coherent enough to recognize it, I shake my head really hard to try to wake myself up – which means that it might be slightly moving in real life, I guess. Dreams are truly fascinating business.) Anyway, in this case, I saw something in front of the light coming in our window, and in my head at least, put out my hand to feel what it was, but there wasn’t anything, so it freaked me out. I wasn’t awake to realize that it was the blanket that David had hung over part of our window to keep light out (which I couldn’t reach). Anyway, I was just awake enough to realize that I wasn’t really awake and enough to realize that I managed to get some of that out, out loud, and enough to be surprised and kind of amused that I did speak out loud.
so two pieces of our luggage are still not here… they are supposed to be here today, but then they were supposed to be here on Friday, too, so no breath holding going on here. At first we thought, hmm, annoying, but not that big of a deal, whatever. Over the last five days we think of more and more items in those bags that are more than a little annoying not to have, however. For example, the batteries for all of our clocks. I personally like when clocks tell the right time. It’s also nice when they work at all. It seems to be pretty hard to get out the door anywhere close to the right time when we have no clocks. Hopefully that problem won’t continue after we get our clocks back. Have you ever tried shaving without the handle to your razor? Like with just the little head attachment? Not recommended except in dire situations. I wish I had never tried it. well, no one got hurt or anything. Um, oh yeah, I really would have liked Maeve’s Easter dress to be here for her to wear on Easter. It also would have been cool to have her little birthday plates and hats last night when we celebrated her birthday with our family here.
