A new home tomorrow!

Good evening :-)

We are very excited to be packing up the hotel room and heading out tomorrow morning for our new casa! It will be interesting to see how we get everything crammed into our rental car and likely a taxi to get it all to the house. We have the 7 suitcases, 4 carry-on suitcases, plus various other bags, grocery bags, and new purchases since we've been here. We will be in our house though and then we'll have plenty of space to spread out and not kick a suitcase every time we turn around :-). Our stuff from the air shipment will be delivered on Monday, so for a bit we were wondering how much like camping out this weekend would be - the owner is taking all his sheets, towels, pillows, dishes, pots & pans, etc with him since we had told him we are bringing our own. So we weren't sure what to do - but pretty sure the answer wasn't to stay in the hotel 2 days longer than we have access to the house! So we called some friends we had met at church last week, picking them b/c they live the closest to our house. Well, they happen to have boxes of camping stuff that are very easily accessible, and they were happy to share with us whatever we need. So God provided for us in a big way!

The school situation is still under investigation - I did not (at all) love either of the options I saw this week (one on Wed and one was rescheduled for today). So we are still praying for direction - and I'm trying not to stress as we pray! I think it will be easier once we are close by the schools that are available and once I have constant internet access to be able to find the phone numbers of the schools on my own (our relocation agency has been making the calls thus far).

Jason had a good trip to Paris and Amsterdam this week, and had a good and productive week working with his team. They even closed the 1st deal he had a major input on :-) He finally got his new laptop today and is really getting settled in at work. But still it seems like there are always 2 steps in front of whatever he really needs to do. So we are all learning patience since that seems to describe life in general right now. :-)

We will try to post a picture or 2 soon - just as soon as we find the cord for the camera :-). Who knows where half of our belongings are. :-) I had been unsuccessfully looking for some books the whole time we've been in the hotel (at least since we've had our luggage) - I finally found them today stuffed in a random pocket of a suitcase of Katie's toys. :-) So I'm sure there will be many surprises as we unpack our things tomorrow and Monday :-)

Off to bed now :-)
Becca