We’ve now been in America for 100 days. Weird. Here’s what we’ve been up to…

• Selling furniture, appliances, and other household goods from 6,000 miles away

• Slowly doing those easily-put-off things one needs to do before a baby’s arrival

• Organizing our travel calendar for the rest of the spring through the end of summer

• Deciding Chickpea’s education method for the fall (it’s kindergarten time)

• Visiting various farmer’s markets around town

• Tending a miniscule garden in the first yard we’ve had in three years

• Watching my ankles slowly disappear daily by 6 p.m.

• Sewing

• Reading

• Organizing guest posts for my blogging maternity leave

• Watching reruns of The Office and Scrubs

• Twice-weekly speech therapy sessions

• Twice-monthly date nights (ahh… the beauty of living near grandparents)

• Holding on to the last fledgling spring days and wincing in anticipation at the too-soon arrival of summer

• Avoiding the topic of why we aren’t currently getting Chick a kitten

• Convincing Garbanzo that with tri-colored pasta, the green ones taste the same as the others

• Relishing in public libraries with English books

• Missing our friends, home, and life abroad while trying to make a temporary-yet-pseudo-permanent life here

• Exploring the wide world of reverse culture shock (the adults) and culture shock (the kids)

• Praying about what’s next

posted: 10 May 13
under: culture, family