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I can't believe a whole month has gone by since I've posted. Boy, have we been busy!
After lots of prayer and counseling with our Pastor, John decided we should go ahead with the move to Kuwait and continue his career. Boy, have the days been whirling by ever since. As soon as the decision was made, we both felt huge weights lift from our hearts and received a great deal of peace. We are both very grateful. Of couse, right after that Satan has tried to get the upper hand again by attacking. The Enemy is so clever. But he does truly need to go find elsewhere. We have work to do and aren't letting the attacks interfer with the Mission we've been given. We expect to fly mid June.
Here's an update on all of us:
John has started precommand course work which will dominate a great deal of each of our remaining months here in No. Va. He's been painting the basement, making lists, keeping tabs on life at the office, cooking to relax and still leading Jesse's Scout Den through the whittling chip badge and pinewood derby. Our pinewood derby days are 5 hrs long. We have over 100 cars to race to include leader, sibling and open class racing. John and I took our calendars and planned the move while we waited for our Den to race. We're starting to get good at this planning a move thing. But we are both clearly older and it's harder. The mind is willing but the body is aging!
Kellie is running. I took it up just before Christmas and have logged 170 miles in 7 weeks on the treadmill. It keeps the weight down as well as the stress level. Homeschooling, tutoring at Classical Conversations once a week and now moving errands keep me pretty busy. I'm also scrapbooking furiously as I try to finish the 2010 album before we move. As usual, I've picked up a new moving cross stitch project. They are cheap, take up little room while moving and allow me to focus when the house is a mess with preparations. I am so excited to find a new girlfriend local to us who's also headed to Kuwait. The G family will be taking command in July as well. We'll have 2 years together to be traveling and shopping or BEATING the HEAT buddies. Pool decks, here we come! Mrs. G has shared pictures her hubby took a couple of weeks ago and I can say that if our housing looks anything like the pictures I've seen....we are going to live like KINGS! Talk about pampered.
Lyndsay is a 2nd Semester Junior at ONU. She finished last semester on the Dean's List and loves her fellow nursing students. I was thrilled when she went line dancing last week! She LOVED it, I knew she would. It's been 2 and a half years since she's danced. I pray this is the beginning of the door being re-opened to her love affair with the dance floor!!! Lyndsay will move with us to the Middle East for the summer and then return to ONU for her Sr. Year. The Kuwaiti government will fly our family back to the USA as far as Chicago once a year for every year we are in Kuwait. We are so relieved to know the whole family will make her college graduation and nursing pinning! Go, P!
Emily has a new love affair: VERA BRADLEY. It's become the Coombs chicks thing to shop for. She spots it everywhere. I think it's time to memorize all the patterns from the last few years so we can start naming them as we see them. There is no Vera in Kuwait, so we are making sure she is stocked up on necessary pieces before we leave. (wink!). Softball will begin for Em in a few weeks and we look forward to evenings on the ballfield again. She's doing just great in school. She's on her third spelling level for the year and her 2nd math level for the year. I can't believe she's a few days away from 12! Emily will attend the American School of Kuwait in the fall as a 6th grader.
Jman- total hoot this kid! Mouthy and very witty. Total baby of the family. I'm certain Kevin Lehman wrote the birthorder book after a conversation with our Jesse. He's a whiz at school, hangs out with the boys, plays video games and lives for man stuff time with his Dad. Ball season starts for Jesse soon as well. He did well at the Pine Wood Derby! Jman's whittling chip car won Best in Show!!! He was so happy! Jman will attend ASK with Emily as a 4th grader.
Adam- Well, it should be clear that his actions have assisted us in our actions. He is still at Poplar Springs Hospital in Petersburg, Va. He's working a 12 step program and while making some progress for himself personally, reunification with our family before his 18th birthday appears to be totally out of the picture. We continue with family therapy each week and truly appreciate his new doctors there. He is being taught how to take responsibility for his actions and how to not repeat the same patterns in the future. More than that I can't share due to upcoming court dates.
Tucker, the new boxer pup is doing well. He's adjusting to the family, getting paint on his face and bottom as we paint the basement and sleeps in whatever bed is not occupied at the time.
We are looking forward to celebrating Passover in April and are keeping a calendar of the Hebrew months on our fridge. The sighting of the new moon was just the other day. We are in month 12 now of the year 6010. I'm enjoying learning more about our Messiah and His Father as we read through the Old Testament. I'm certain that our moving to a culture in the middle east where the lunar cycle is what regulates the local calendar and having Friday and Saturday off as 'weekend' days will help make a more natural transistion to Sabbath worship for us. This last Friday night was doozy for us commute wise, but we were seated around the table at 7:45 enjoying dinner and having prayer time together. It was lovely and peaceful.
Well, I think I've cooled down from my morning run. Time to hit the showers. Anyone wanna come help me get a garage sale together? Planning a big one for 1st weekend in April!
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