3 weeks

Somedays it feels like just yesterday we arrived here in Sicily.  It has been three weeks since we said goodbye to family and friends and moved our family of six to Italy.  We have days where we are homesick and wondering why.  Most days we are trying to figure out life here.  Like grocery shopping, finding our way around and filling out paperwork to stay.  We also have been house hunting since we got here.  We found a house we thought would work but the owners backed out due to us wanting another kitchen put in.  Since then we have been able to see more then 8 houses.  Some we knew right away it wouldn't work for us and the Boschult's.  Others we looked at had potential but not enough to say we wanted it.  Yesterday we saw a house that was everything we wanted.  Right price, right number of rooms, right area for the Boschult's and a pomegranate tree.  Only problem is that a couple saw it before us and also wanted it.  We hear tomorrow if they sign a contract. If not then we have hope to get it.  

We would like to get into a house soon.  For a couple of different reasons.  The first being to feel settled.  Transistioning is hard and we are want to find a place to call home.  Establish a routine.  We also want to find a house so we can get the kids signed up for school.  School starts this week.  So our kids will start late.  We have decided to put Libby and Ryleigh Joy in preschool and Macy in kindergarden.  This will help them to learn Italian and give me a chance to learn it also with a tutor and rosetta stone.  We will start out slowly putting them in for a couple hours everyday and eventually work up to the full time of four hours.  We would like for that to happen soon.  We have been teaching them some words and phrases that would be good for them to know.  Like "bathroom" = "bagno", "what is your name" = "Come ti chiami" and "my name is...." = "Mi chiamo....".  They think it is fun when we practice it but freeze up when an Italian asks them their name.  

We feel lots of grace but ready for this time of being unsettled to be over and for things to seem normal.  We also have some lose ends in Omaha.  We have our house that still needs to sell and our van.  Please be praying that those sell soon.