So, our container is in Durban, South Africa and they say it should be 5-15 days til it arrives here! It could be next week or the week after, or even the week after that, haha!
It is the 31st and I am missing the crisp cool weather of the fall. All the smells of harvest time, going to the punkin patch and all the yummy candles and stuff. We are having a little party here though. We live on a bible college campus and there are four American missionary homes here so we will go from house to house trick or treating and around our house to our 3 doors and then have a party.
We are still waiting for our phones. Doug and some of the workers here were in the ravine and climbing up a large tree to tie the phone line to a rock and throw it over to our home (oh, the African ways of doing things). The telecom guy was supposed to be here to connect the line mon. or tues. of this and has still not come even though Doug has called daily. So for now we keep bugging our neighbors upstairs from us (the Mcknights, one of the couples that helps at the bible college every term) for their line to at least check email.
Missing everyone!

Home Sweet Home

We have officially been in our house for one week now. We moved in last Tuesday and had the movers deliver our stored stuff on Wed. Well . . . lets just say it was not in the same condition we left it in. All of our wood furniture (dining table and chairs, dresser, 3 night stands, armoire, desk, and some small tables) were mildewed. Doug has been working the past few days on sanding stuff down and repainting. We did have to throw out a lot of things, most all of our games, all the kids books and most of Dougs books (concordences, etc), toys, stuffed animals, etc.
Oh, well it is just stuff right!! It has made the unpacking process a bit harder as we are having to wipe down each and everything in each box.
On the up side, the kids are doing well, it is nice to begin to get setteled. It is hot and we have consitantly lost power each night for the past 4 nights. We have made application for our land line, hopefully we will have that in the next week or so.

Back in Swaziland

wow, I forgot how slow dial up was, yikes!

We are back and have been on the ground in Swazi almost three weeks now. We are currently staying with our other AG missionaries as our house was needing some TLC before we moved in. And now remembering that we are not on efficient American time, but slow and sometimes agonizing "African time".
All is well though. I have thought a lot about uploading some pic's and getting onto my blog to update, but since we are back on dial up, which is inconsistent and the past few weeks have had trouble even getting mail, I decided to wait. That was a true reality when another missionary friend last week was all excited because she had went to one of the upscale hotels here for one hour and was able to upload 8 pics. on high speed Internet!!!! Oh, well, life goes on.

Kylea started school at Usutu Primary (which is a British based school) this week and is loving it. We put her back into first grade, since school ends the first on Dec. She will begin on schedule with grade 2 at the end of Jan along with Kaden in kindergarten (which is called grade 0 or knot) here.

The boys are loving the dirt and the sun and running all around the campus, the transition has not been too hard, except for missing family. and getting all the things at the grocery store I want. Haha.