Back home on the other side of the world

We're back! What a whirlwind trip we had. Now, I'm in a bit of daze and asking myself, "Did that really happen?!"

I don't think I can sufficiently describe every wonderful and memorable moment of our six weeks back in our Colorado home but it was just a joy to get to see our family and friends and be a part of their daily lives again for a while.

Here's a random list of things I am so grateful to have experienced again:

  • meeting up for lunch with my parents or in-laws...just because we could!
  • late-night movies with my niece
  • going to church and worshipping in English!
  • visiting Grandma Jean in Kansas
  • going to high school basketball games
  • getting our fill of Mexican food, cheese, steak, hamburgers, Pizza Hut, taco salad, and so much more
  • snow and cold and wearing sweaters and jeans
  • our New Mexico date!
  • sitting around and just laughing and chit-chatting with my sister
  • celebrating my sister-in-law's engagement and the gathering together of family from Colorado, Oklahoma, and Texas
  • watching my girls interact with their cousin, Audrey, and hearing her "freak out!" when she saw them for the first time in 1.5 years.
  • drinking coffee with Mom and Dad in the early morning, hearing everyday sort of news that I rarely get in on way over here in Indo
  • horse riding, sledding, driving to see the cranes, seeing tons of wildlife
  • going to movies, shopping in nice stores, going out to eat, making food NOT from scratch...okay, barely cooking at all
  • just being with loved ones - aunts, uncles, grandma, friends, pastors, parents, in-laws, cousins, soon-to-be relatives, and even our old dog, Duke.
  • hearing Spanish again...and understanding it and even being able to speak it (but now we're struggling to remember our Indonesian. The brain is so weird.)
  • taking our girls to the Denver Museum of Nature and Science - it made me feel better about our extended break from homeschooling ;-)
  • realizing how much I love our missionary life...this was a surprise to me - I didn't know I loved Indonesia or our ministry here until I stepped back from it for a while. I am more in love with this country and its people than ever before and I'm honored we get to live and serve here with MAF.

It is nice to be back in our Indonesia home, as crazy and far away from all we understand as it is. What fun to say hello to our new friends here and walk into our house and feel like we were coming home. We've just started our normal routine again today and it feels good after a 6-week "vacation!" We're still getting over jet lag but it is much less severe than going the other way.

 

I have huge sausages for feet. The swelling I got in my feet from the 50+ hours of travel has yet to go down and I just look down and feel stupid. Why does having extra-chubby feet make a person feel so foolish and dorky? It's like they belong to another person and I want to laugh out loud every time I get a glimpse of them. Look at those feet! What a total dweeb with fat feet! Those are my feet? Why do my feet look like they swallowed a watermelon? WHAT IS WRONG WITH MY FEET?

Hopefully the fat feet and jet lag will soon be gone. Just in case, I'm going to go take a nap with my feet up as high as I can get them.

 

 

 

 

 

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