Our Life is Different now....

Yes, different...that's the best way to describe our life now. Not bad, not wrong, not what we ever expected, but different...sometimes different in a crazy way...sometimes different in a bad way....but most of all different in a good way. We used to spend our "extra moments" outside in a yard, our weekends packed with church activities, and our evenings filled with counseling sessions. But now...now what do we do in this different life?
We spend our family times in our apartment doing these activies...
baking....


doing homework and playing school with the kids...




enjoying our "most of the time embarrassed" teen...

spending time with and ministering to families that live among us....

and...

... sitting in traffic jams daily...breaking every traffic law (if we were in the states)

...taking trips to the Suez Canal, Mediterranean Sea, and Red Sea

...daily seeing ancient sites around us
...including the pyramids
...encountering beggers on every street
...speaking Arabic with the locals
...bargaining and dickering for everything from apples to apartments
...sitting in gov't offices for hours for ONE piece of paper

...ordering fresh meat on the street, straight off of the cow
...buying fruits and veggies for pennies

and understanding more about the meaning of the 'washing of feet' in Scripture...in more ways than one! :)

Different...just what HE has called us to be!