Life is busy (and I seem to be just noticing).

I've been in denial for a while now, but I think I'm finally starting to come to terms with my life getting busier.  I love down-time.  I love having space in my day when the house is quiet and I can read my Bible or sew or look at blogs.  I love feeling like things happen in an orderly way and I can get home in time to feed the girls before it's late and give Jubilee a bath and leisurely put them to bed without rushing.  This doesn't happen like it used to.  There's more to do.  There's so much to do that I can't keep it all straight in my head, which makes it seem more stressful than it is because I haven't figured out how to make it all happen.  A lot of life here is vague and uncertain and a lot of things don't turn out how you expect them to or are as straight-forward as you would like.  For a long time we raged and fumed and got terribly judgmental and impatient about this, but we are starting to come to expect it and roll with it.  However, sometimes it is just annoying.  All that to say, we are in a busy "phase" (see, I'm still staying "phase" as though it's going to pass soon) right now and I haven't been blogging much.  We spent last week in Cochabamba, which was fun, but a lot of hard work for me since I wasn't in my own space and spent pretty much the entire day hanging out with/entertaining the girls.  Scotty took one extra day so that he could spend it with us, which turned out to be fantastic and just enough time to see the highlights of the city together.  We got home and launched into a full week of activities- a good friend having her baby, which included visits to the hospital and meal planning, Natty's last week of preschool (which included one of those vague, frustrating searches for a specific costume that her teacher had asked for), Thanksgiving prep and cooking, having 15 people over to our house yesterday to celebrate the big day, lots of phone calls to make to figure out other pending things that I haven't been able to resolve and then being left with unanswered questions relating to some of that.  Then, I started Christmas shopping today.  I don't have a list.  I don't have the first idea what to buy my little ones or the big one.  But, I managed to score a few good finds and feel good about that.  I'd love to knock it out and just focus on the important bits of the season, including the next 2 months that Natty is out of school and will be wanting much more of my attention that she has for the last year.  Suddenly, I think my days are going to get even busier.

We got a call from our lawyer yesterday who set up December 13th for our interviews with child and family services.  Whoa!  The whole adoption thing just kicked it up a notch.  A little scary and a lot exciting.  We're probably going to squeeze in a much-needed beach vacation right after that since we shouldn't be leaving the city once we have our final interviews and the hunt for Baby Boy Miser begins.  We've decided for lots of reasons to put the house building on hold until the rainy season is over.  I think that will remove some of the pressure that trying to start it soon was creating and there are still a lot of details to work out before we're even ready.  Scotty is probably 5 times busier than I am and I think we're both feeling like the relational part of our ministry is suffering.  But, that's a whole other blog...