On the last day before our flight out of the city toward America, my kids were both sleeping during the ladies Bible Study time, the last event I was hoping to go to to connect and say goodbye to our local community. I decided to let them sleep and internally gave up on that point of connection, adding to a recent sense of discouragement over relationship-building cross-culturally. And then I got a call from two teachers at Judah's preschool, asking where our house was so the

We leave in just days for a few months in the US to have this baby and go to my sister's wedding. Excitement is high at our place! It will be the first time we have come back to the US as adults, and we keep asking each other how we're feeling about it. It's an odd thing to do it as an adult when it was such a significant and formative thing in our childhoods growing up overseas. Isaac has a better memory for the childhood years than I do, and he remembers trips back to the U