In the interest of a new post

First, I want to say, "Good luck, Andy!" We'll miss you--at least, as much as I can miss someone I only talk to once every few months. Learn some cool phrases in Arabic while you are there and get some good recipes you can teach us all. You will be in our prayers (including the boys--that means you will be added to things like, "Please bless the dinosaur bones, and please bless the dinosaurs that they will come back to life, and please bless my friend Talon and his mom that they will be able to hide before the dinosaurs come back to life.") Please avoid dangerous things while you are there.

Second, Eli is trying to walk. He can stand up in the middle of a room all by himself. When he's excited, he will stand up and fling himself forward and stand up and fling himself forward, and stand up...making his way across the room like "frog that doesn't jump."

We are trying to sell our house now. It will be listed this coming Sunday. We'd appreciate prayers that we will be able to sell the house in good time (close enough to when we need to move to not necessitate us finding somewhere else to live but before we move). I think our report no later than date will be 15 May, no earlier than 11 May. We will get 8 days of house hunting before we report and we are still planning on going on a cruise (or some other away from the children vacation) before that. That should put us moving sometime around April 20th or so. We'll have to see what we end up doing.

I've spent lots of time and space on this post hoping to stimulate our blog's economy...uh...please comment.

Mike