Starting Over (Kind of.)

Well, the time is almost upon me and this blog will finally start to be active.  It has been fairly dormant since I opened it because I was waiting for the move back to Panama, which is taking place on Monday!

It has been a very bittersweet month.   

Similar to this feeling.

There have been a whole lot of sad goodbyes, WAY too many goodbye dinners and lunches that I will spend the next months working off, and a incredible amount of packing, throwing things away, throwing away things I packed and then digging them out of the trash determined to make them fit, and repeating that process over and over.

I can't believe my last night with teenagers ended on Wednesday, that feeling was not bittersweet at all, it was more like this:

Can a sadder face exist?!

It has been quite the gut-wrenching ordeal, but alas it is about to be over after the next taco lunch on Sunday. 

Ah, the memories.

From here things don't slow down at all.  I have an incredibly long journey ahead of me, hauling my three, just barely allowable bags around from ten am on Monday until about five am Tuesday when I am expected to arrive.  I won't be sleeping I assure you.  I'll be playing with my kids, and listening to all of my overly honest friends and family tell me how fat I have gotten since they last saw me.  The joke's on them though, they didn't get to eat that unreal honey bacon from Two Rows I had a few days ago.  I can go on a diet, but they will never experience delicious honey bacon!

That's right, long for it, Mr. Slim, because you'll never see it again. 

On Wednesday things will really heat up though.  I'm going into to town to look at trucks and see if we can find the right one.  After that we should either be going to sign, or setting up our contract to rent our house, and will immediately start moving in.  It will take a few days to complete all of those things, but once we have our foundation set we are ready to rock and start the journey back into readjusting to missionary life again.  I am going to do my best to write blog posts at least weekly while I am there, and I'll put links on Facebook and such. 

Thanks again to everyone who has supported us, and will be supporting us as we go, and to all of you who are helping or have helped give toward the truck.  God willing we will raise enough money to buy one that will last us a good, long time and be a tool to reach many people with the Gospel!