WOW! I can't believe we are almost to "lift off" time! We have spent months preparing and yet in the past month it has been utter chaos getting the last minute details done. The furniture, a car, and the house is all sold (or in the process)! Passports are set, visas are done, yardsales are done (thank God for that), and we are excited to go.
Packing has been a huge trial. How do you take 13 years of marriage, 3 kids, and a house full of memories and stuff and cram it all into 2 pieces of luggage, at 50 pounds a piece? Think it is easy? Here is an equivalent test for you. Buy one large, very disturbed, and slightly foaming at the mouth possum and try shoving it into a lunchbox! You may get scratched and cut a bit as you go, maybe lose a finger or two, and maybe end up in the hospital with rabies, but at least you could say you did it! (Not to mention you would make the "stupidest people in the world" list for late night TV.)
Anyways, it all works out in the end. You realize that space bags are a gift from God, parents' homes are wonderful storehouses (thanks a million moms and dads), and that possum loves his new home!
Write you next time from the other side of the sea. China is 16 hours ahead of Arizona. (I could tell you what tomorrow is like!)
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2 comments:
I am so blessed to read your blog and hear about your plans to go to China.
I am very excited to be able to follow you guys on your blog and keep in touch that way as well.
I'll be praying for you and Jesse and Hannah, Lia and Jack. What an awesome plan God has for your family!
Love ya,
Julie
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