On the Verge...

I remember when we first started to tell people that we were going to be moving to the Middle East. The response we got was almost always a question involving a tent or camels or both. No, we are not living in a tent. Yes, there are wild camels along the road. No, we haven't ridden one... yet. We are not living in a third world country. There's a Baskin Robbins and a Dunkin' Donuts on every corner and we've already had our fair share of McDonald's. We live in a large house with our close friends and there are many things about our living situation that are actually better than when we were in Austin, but I'll get to those in a minute. There are, to be sure, some aspects of life over here (some are the standard and some are unique to us) that have made me realize that there are certain things I took for granted in the States. Things that we don't really think about not having, but I am here to tell you that I should have been more grateful wh

She's back!  I can't believe it's already time for her 7 month post.  Time flies when you are moving to a new country and trying to get settled in when you have little to nothing but clothes.  Selah has been doing really well with the transition, overall.  We had about a week of jetlag and day/night confusion, but that was expected and she reverted back into her wonderful night sleeping fairly quickly.  She is sick now, though, and is coughing quite a lot (Abram and I are, too).  Abram had a fever and cough for a week and when we finally took him into a doctor here, a chest x-ray confirmed Pneumonia.  He started antibiotics and his fever is gone, but his cough is not.  But he's acting more normal. The day we took him to the doctor, Selah started to get a cough.  She's has a low grade fever for a few days and the cough has gotten worse, but we started her on antibiotics that the doctor prescribed for her in case she started to get the same thing as Abram.  She&

That's right. My first born will be two years old tomorrow! I can't believe it. Am I really that old? Some days I feel too young to even have kids and some days I feel so old I think I should have grandchildren already. But I think that's the stress talking. I know it's been awhile since my last post. I had grand ideas about blogging most days just to keep family up to date on what was happening, but so far that is so far out of the realm of possibility that I'm laughing a little right now. I can't even take a shower but every three days at this point. I've been busy in the past, but this is a new kind of busy. I think it's a extenuating circumstance busy and I am expecting that it will eventually calm down and become more of a daily life busy. The move here has been epic to say the least. Don't worry, I will be updating on the house and all the happenings here soon. But this post is not for that! This post is for Abram!