Settling Down

There's settling in which is where you put your stuff away and figure out who to call to get a phone line. And then there's settling down which is where you start to get comfortable with the basics and start exploring what life is really like now.

In the words of Douglas Adams:
It said: "The History of every major Galactic Civilization tends to pass through three distinct and recognizable phases, those of Survival, Inquiry and Sophistication, otherwise known as the How, Why and Where phases." For instance, the first phase is characterized by the question How can we eat? the second by the question Why do we eat? and the third by the question Where shall we have lunch?

We have answered how quite to our satisfaction, kind of skipped why and are greatly enjoying "where shall we have lunch?"

Mom and baby are both doing very well. Margaret is growing more slowly than the other kidz did at this age, but that's nothing to worry about. In fact, it's nice to have a small baby for a little while. Don't get me wrong, there's something great about a nice 12-lb infant, but the small size is a great change. At least for the moment.

And, while we aren't yet attending church all together, we got to gather in the Chapel of the Palms (a 125 foot walk) and spend some time worshiping as a family on Sunday. It was wonderful.

Elaina is attending Jame Island Christian School and is going very well, especially since she was out of school for most of the first quarter and is playing a bit of catch up.

Noah and Andrew are making some progress as we work with the Charleston School systems to get them into the right placement. After six weeks of absolutely no progrss at all, we finally are getting some cooperation and are hopeful that they will start to transition into the classroom soon and well.

Well, that's it for this schizophrenic news report. Now it's off to help Elaina with a report on Honduras.