Tuesday, June 26, 2007

Tomorrow, Tomorrow....

Tomorrow is the day that our flight towards Australia begins, although we will not actually get to Perth until Friday morning around 9:30am. We have about 21 hours in the air so please pray for our sanity and patience. Lil e should sleep for most of the flight and watch signing times DVDs on the laptop. She should. Tell her she should, the next time you see here. ;)

Our Jetta was driven away by it's new owner, Sonya. Last night, she cautiously made a rather successful attempt to drive stick after a ten years lapse. I encouraged her that the jetta is very forgiving with new drivers. it is the exact car that i learned to drive manually. Sonya is the homebirth mid-wife who did my pre-natal care when I was preggo with lil e. More recently, I have attended a couple of homebirths with her. We are so glad that she is driving the baby jetta now. it's sad for us to see it go. but, there is a purpose to losing the car. we are so excited about all we will gain in the process of letting it go. good-bye, baby jetta.

we have started saying good-by to friends over the past week. it doesn't seem real to say good-bye to these people that we live so closely with; it's hard to imagine not seeing any of them for a year. I hope that people will come to visit us in Thailand or Indonesia or wherever it is that we end up living this year. We have been so busy setting things into place so we can leave that slowing done to hug people for the last time (for a while) isn't really sinking in as reality, yet. maybe i will cry myself to sleep on the plane. we're too busy we know b/c we are actually looking forward to a being stuck in a chair with no option other than sleep, reading or rest...or uhm, keeping a 19 month old babe entertained.

Thursday, June 7, 2007

is it june, friends.

are we ready to head out on this adventure of a lifetime?

we're having a yard sale on saturday so come on by if you know where i live. we made almost $400 just today in the pre-sale yard sale. we only need $15,600 more for our year abroad. if you can donate, give me shout.

buy this car from us! we need the cash and you need the car. we're asking $8,000. it's a 2000 VW Jetta with a 6 disk CD player, heated seats, sun roof and about 98,000 miles. need more info?

i keep looking up at the calender in our kitchen from my seat here at the desk. when i see the dates, i get confused. then, i look for the month and it has flipped to may but may was so long ago. so much has happened to push us forward. it's june, friends.