We Are in our House!

I have been waiting for this moment for a long time. Not that we haven't been happy living with our family, we really have enjoyed it, but after spending 41 days living out of suitcases we were really to find some normalcy in moving into our house.

Where have we been the past 41 days?

On December 6th we flew to Guangzhou with all of our luggage for our time in America to finalize Ian's adoption. We lived in Guangzhou 6 days. Then we flew to Beijing and spent 1 night and the next morning we got on the long plane to get to America. We then flew from Chicago to Tulsa and arrived before noon. We arrived in Tulsa on the 11th of December and stayed until the 20th. From December 20th until the 30th we were in Kansas. On New Years Eve Todd and left the kids in Tulsa and drove to Oklahoma City for our friend's wedding. Then from Jan 1st until the 9th we were in Tulsa at Todd's parents house and from there we flew to Virgina for a meeting. We were in Virgina from January 10th until the 15th. And on January 15th we got back to Tulsa and we moved into our house. YEAH!

We moved into the house we lived in with Ev was a little baby and where we spent our last months before we moved overseas. Coming back to this house has brought back a lot of memories. The people letting us use the house are very good to us. We left our crib and changing table with them so that they could let other people use them if they needed. They set them up for us to use for Ian. As our lifestyle doesn't lend us to keep many things it was fun to be able to tell Ev that the crib and changing table are what mommy and daddy bought her before she was born.

When we were in the process of coming overseas other people had told us that in our line of work that it would be good to always come back to the same house if we could in America. We are really fortunate to be able to do that so far. Our main purpose was for the kids to have a constant but I think it has been good for me to come back to some familiar too. I guess it is a little hard to explain but we are very humbled to be able to stay in the house we are. And the people letting us use the house have been such a blessing to us. Not only did we move into a newly painted house but they stocked our pantry and stocked us with diapers, wipes and baby products for the next 3 years!

So what are we doing now? We are going to try to stay in one place as long as we can and just be. We were asked this morning in Sunday School, "what do you do all week?" Hopefully nothing but enjoy being a family, enjoy not doing anything for a while, relax and get renewed.