Sunday, May 18, 2008

Returning (for the summer at least)

We are making a summer long visit to the states. We are going to be in a few places so we wanted to list them out so that if any our friends and family are in those same places we can see you. We are going to be in Washington D.C., Charleston SC, SLC Utah, Idaho, and Mesa AZ. Carl will be with us everywhere except for Arizona. We look forward to seeing as many of you as we can.

I guess it is apparent from the above that Carl's work wants him in Bahrain for a while longer, at least that is the plan for right now. It gives us the opportunity to travel to be with him and see other areas of the Middle East that we have not yet explored. We are also thrilled to stay in our branch, we have the best branch. We are even getting a new family from Kuwait with six kids, our primary will almost double.

It seems everything in life is constantly changing, I pray everyday that our changes will be to our benefit and to those arround us. There is a childrens book about chameleons and the chameleon is sad because he keeps changing color so he sets out to find somewhere to stay that will keep him the same color. He then finds another chameleon and expresses his sadness about always changing and they decide that they could stay together and change together and then at least they will have a companion in their change. I look at our little family that way. Our situation is always in flux but we are in flux together which makes it great. Finding wisdom in childrens stories, very motherly but childrens book are my main source of reading these days.

2 comments:

Katie said...

I'm not feeling the love. . . Carl will be everywhere but AZ? Are you to good for your home!?

Ah well, at least we'll have you and your kiddos, and we'll get to see Carl in Midway.

I'm excited that you finally have some firm plans for your job. Bahrain has been good to you guys.

Kikibug said...

HEY! I would love to see you when you are in town. I live in Utah... email me at kikibug@gmail.com and we can make plans..but only if you have time. I know how vacations are.. so let me know. If you need a place to stay you are more than welcome to stay with us too.