Not enough time

These first few days have been so busy! I'm really enjoying having Josh around, but also look forward to being back into a normal routine.

Our drive across the country went very well. Cason had some bad moments because he was teething, and because my kids don't drool (anyone ever heard of this before?!) that meant some nasty diapers along the way. The worst was on our last morning driving. I was feeling alittle melancholy that morning as it was sinking in how permanent this discision is and my mind was struggling with fighting my old tendencies towards anxiety. Cason had a huge blowout, all over him, all over me when I picked him up. Not fun! But despite feeling quite overwhelmed on the first two days, God is proving himself faithful every day.

Now that I'm not so tired, each day holds new experiences to enjoy. Yesterday we went to look at a sofa and loveseat at a garage sale. We saw it on craigslist and called, they said they were having a garage sale and the set would be out to be seen. I'll just say, God really works in mysterious ways. We got there and starting chatting with the gal selling it and find out she's a speech therapist. Josh asked if she worked for the school system, which she doesn't, but it led into him telling her that Jonah has autism. Jonah obviously talks alot and talks well (if a bit formal), but speech therapy has actually been recommended to us to help his language comprehension. She told us the organization she works for just got an autism grant and hired an autism specialist and that their services would be FREE to us. More than just speech therapy, the autism specialist will come to our home and spend two hours with Jonah and give us advice on things that concern us. Can you say amazing?! One of our goals for this move was to find therapy for Jonah, and God provided before the first week was done.

We bought the couch set too, but when we got it home, discovered that it was truly the ugliest thing we've ever seen. It at one time was a dark sage green, but has badly faded and is best described as camoflaged now. We're hoping for a quick turnaround sale via craigslist.

There is more from our first few days to write about, but I need to get up and going. Pictures of the kids from our time at Bounce! later.