Life in Words.

There is a saying here...TIA...this is Africa. We have found this to be very useful and a way to remind ourselves that absolutely NOTHING is going to work correctly the first time around, be easy to find, purchase, put together, or use, and that we should always ALWAYS expect a delay. I try to be positive on Facebook, in my blog, etc. but if I am to project an accurate picture of life here, I must also include a post on the fact that very, very few things have just plain worked out. Exhibit A: Cable Television, aka DSTV. It was one of the first things we did when we got here and we finally just now have it working correctly (thanks to our neighbor Lawrence who happens to work for DSTV and got us personally in touch with an installer). Literally...today. Hey, TIA. We have had multiple installers here for multiple days, some channels, then no channels, then some channels on one TV, then no channels on two TVs, and every error code you can imagine, just short of the screen flashing TIA

It is hard to go back, as I knew it would, to the first few weeks after arriving on our new continent, country, city, neighborhood, house. The reality is, I was not about to type a blog on my phone as I already feel like I have iThumb disease for the amount of time I spend surfing on that little electronic lifeline. That said, I will do my very best. First, I must say that I can't even begin to describe how much it means to me to read your thoughts, comments, and questions on Facebook. Thank you for talking on the other end of my tin can phone line. Now I can't imagine what it must have felt like moving to England back in 2000 without a super fancy mobile device and Facebook! I am sitting here wondering where to begin............. THE NIGHT WE ARRIVED: So the flight was fine. As previously noted, the kids slept all night and so did Jake and I. This is huge. Sleep is the jackpot for anything involving children, in my opinion. We managed to pile all 352 of our black, rolli