From Texas to Equador

Feel the intensity and pray for us!

Remember the last time you moved? Remember the boxes, the sorting through and throwing out; the endless forms to change your address and your mail; the new city you'd never lived in before? The packing, the stress, the lost socks?

Now throw in a couple of kids, say a 2 and 3 year old. And now pretend that you're not moving to another city, but actually another country. And then pretend that the place you're moving from is not your home country either. Oh, and in this new country, throw in another language.

For geography's sake, pretend you're moving to Equador. (Texas to Equador is the same relative distance from Singapore to our new home.) And now pretend that it's not only you, but 6 other families who are moving together -- (for a combined total of 12 children under 6)--actually equal to the number of adults! And you are all moving from different places all over North & South America!

And pretend that you and these other 6 families with 12 children are looking for that new house in that new country...seeking to meet everyone's non-negotiables and preferences and budgets all within a single apartment complex.

Add all that together, and that is our current reality for the next few months! Not trying to be melodramatic...but when I put it like this, then I think-- OH, is that why we're feeling some stress??!

Please do pray for His wisdom...

-We need a visa. More complicated and boring that I have time to explain.

-April 7 & 8 Jim will be traveling with friends to look for our new homes together. Pray we will find a group of affordable apartments quickly.

-April 6-14 Jim will be away; During Easter and our anniversary :( We wish it could be different,but pray mom would have great inspiration and creativity for some knock-it-out-of-the-park ideas for celebrating Easter... and extra stamina and grace too.

-Pray I'll have wisdom to help these little girls process and embrace this new culture-new language- new country- new friends move. Oh, I need wisdom!

...(and, of equal importance, right now, I need sleep! Goodnight!)