Currently in the USA if you were wondering

Greetings, you may have noticed that we have not posted anything here recently. There is a reason for that -- we are currently in the USA. When Don started with the NGO Transitions we left before we had the house in Iowa up for sale so he could get things moving on fund development. The understanding was that when our 90 days were up (time to renew passports) we would return to the USA to remove our belongings from the house, store those things that I (personally) cannot part with and put the house up for sale. We returned at noon on a Monday and at 4 am on Tuesday Don's step father passed away changing our plans and timeline. We did a 10 day marathon then drove to Texas for the funeral and burial. We postponed the funeral to a time when our daughter, Donna from CA, would arrive on plane tickets previously purchased. Shell Silverstein described our situation nicely with this poem for kids,

Too Many Kids in this Tub

Author: Shel Silverstein

There's too many kids in this tub
There's too many elbows to scrub
I just washed a behind that I'm sure wasn't mine
There's too many kids in this tub.

We ended up with 5 kids under the age of 7 and 5 adults under the same roof. We all landed at our daughter Susan's house because she has the most space. Susan and Scott were gracious hosts to such a crew. We never actually snarled at each other but by the end of a week with that many in one house everyone was having trouble controlling tempers. It did not help that the temperature here has been a 100 degrees in the shade and young ones could not play outside in that kind of heat. I forgot that Texas could feel like a desert when it wants to. 

We have plans to return to GUA and our nifty little apartment in July. We hope to have most of what we have to deal with here in motion and plans in place. Yeah, I know -- that is really optimistic. Wish us luck.

Linda