The First 48ish Hours at Home

We're baaaaack!!!

We're sooooo happy to be home. Happy to see #1 son, happy to be out of China and back in the U.S., happy to finally bring our munchkins home.

Plans to blog almost daily from China were thwarted by The Great fireWall. Internet was slow, our computer jammed up (technical term), we were kicked off the internet repeatedly, draft emails were deleted, and finally - in our last week - we lost our internet access almost completely. Thank God that we still had Skype, so we could still talk to #1 every day. That helped us keep our sanity :)

So like I said, we're sooooo happy to be home!

We arrived home on Thursday night around midnight, so we woke up Josh and had a "midnight party". We talked and snuggled and ate snacks, then went to bed around 2am. It is so good to be home.

Chris' mom and sister are here, and have been taking care of all of us. What a blessing. Food appears. Dishes are cleared and cleaned. Toys are put away. The house is cleaned. Laundry is washed and folded. Children are cared for. Aaaaaaaahhhhhh.

Have I mentioned it is good to be home? Thought so.

Days are great ~ Samuel has really come a long ways. He is a little funny man! He loves everyone, and doesn't have sibling jealousy. Yet, anyways :) And the little peanut eats a TON!  David is a sweetie. He loves to play. We are seeing some jealousy issues, and he likes to "collect" things. He'll walk around the house gathering armfuls of toys and sit down and pile them up around himself :)  Josh has handled things much better than we thought he would so far. He loves his little brothers, and doesn't seem to have major issues with his brothers yet. Oh, other than he doesn't like them touching his Legos. He did ask me (Chris) yesterday morning when he could have more attention... I love him so much. It hurt having part of my heart on the other side of the world.

It is so good to be home!

Nights... well, there have been 2-1/2 nights at home so far... I have to remind myself that this is early in the game. It's tough to keep that perspective when I have only had maybe 10 hours of sleep in the last 4 days, including the hour I got tonight. David is not sleeping well. For example, it is 5am and I just put him to bed. He slept a few hours, and then was up for the rest of the night. I gave up trying to get him back to sleep because I was getting too frustrated. Samuel also wakes up crying several times a night. He seems to be waking up sad sometimes, and other times he is crying because he needs to go potty. Jason came out at 3:30am looking for sleeping pills...

This is how we feel sometimes:

Isn't that a funny picture? We took it about halfway through our trip in China. Samuel had just woken up from a nap and realized Jason wasn't in the room, and David was upset because I picked up Samuel.

This picture is SO going in their wedding videos. Tee hee hee    :-D

Please pray for some sleep in our house soon. I think the big dark cloud over our heads will clear once we get some sleep. And please forgive us if we're somewhat incoherent or forgetful for a while.

It is so good to be home.



1 Peter 4:19  So if you find life difficult because you're doing what God said, take
it in stride. Trust him. He knows what he's doing, and he'll keep on doing it.