How we’re spending our days
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



