July 12, 2012

• Building Momentum

  Now that we have moved.
  Now that we are settling into this house.
  Now that house guests have come and gone.
  Now that a month since we moved has past.

  Now I will try to build momentum and get back to web blogging.

  There are so many things that I have thought about writing over the past few weeks, but there has been no time to sit and write anything.

  Let’s start with a run down of the past couple of weeks.

  We moved here about a month ago.  Moving with a long time consuming thing.  I really do not like moving.  When we drove to get here, we were about 2 minutes from the house and Maya demonstrated that she may get motion sickness.  Lovely way to greet your realtor and new landlord.  We won’t even mention that my washer and dryer didn’t arrive until a week and a half later.

  It took us about a week to get unpacked and some of that time involved visiting the recycle shops in the area to find things to help situate the house.  My kitchen turns out to be quite a puzzle, but I am pleased with how I was able to make it work.  I know many people expressed concerns about me missing the bigger kitchen, but my only thought has been…finally a kitchen I can manage and that won’t manage me.  There are still a few things that we would like to purchase for the house, but these things will have to wait until either we find the right thing or the cash is in place to purchase the items.  I am on a hunt for a homeschool storage cabinet.  I have enough room for it to be rather large, or possibly two smaller things, but either way that could be pricey.  There are a few things that I am still not 100% sure where I want to put them, so I am sort of at a stand still on some things.  I will let ideas stew in my brain.

  Our first set of house guest arrived just over a week after we moved.  This group came and did some prayer walking in our area.  I am grateful for their prayers.  While the first group was getting ready to leave, the second group was arriving into the Narita airport.  This group was Corey’s family.  His dad, brother, and two nephews came.  They stayed for nearly two weeks, and I feel like we got our whirlwind tour of Niigata through them.  Boy was that exhausting.

  Since we have moved in, we have met the guy in charge of the neighborhood and were told about the annual neighborhood clean up.  Yes, we were outside at 7:30 in our grubby work clothes and boots.  Our house and the neighbor across the street from us (we are the last two houses on our street) were responsible for cleaning the gutter behind out houses.  This gutter separates our houses from the rice field.  We pulled weeds and picked up trash from the gutter area.  We sledged out mud that had accumulated over the past year as well.  I couldn’t find any gloves, so I was pulling my weight bare handed.  I saw more centipedes and kemushi (um help me out here folks…hairy caterpillars) than I care to see.  Both these insects sting something fierce.  Both Skyler and I have been stung by kemushi before.  OUCH!

  We have met some people in the area.  Perhaps that is a story for another day, maybe even tomorrow.  The last two days we have been trying to pull together some resemblance of an actual schedule.  By and by it will come.  We are building momentum. 

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