A Decision-Filled Weekend

This weekend saw many decisions.  Allow me to list them for you:

1.  The powers that be decided that our next post will be Jakarta, Indonesia.  Dave will spend this year learning Bahasa and we will arrive at post in July 2014.  This is a 2-year post, and Dave will spend one more year doing consular work and his second year doing economics work.  This meets his bureaucratic requirements of doing 1 full year of consular work (in Venezuela he only did 9 full months), making his Career Development Officer happy.  But it also moves him into his chosen field of Economics, making Dave happy as well.  We're hearing good things about Indonesia and feeling good about this post.

2. The staff at our old school decided to allow Lilly and Sophia to return.  This was not a sure bet, but it is a true praise.  They started school today.

3. We decided to live in temporary housing the entire time we are in Virginia.  That means we will stay in the serviced-apartment we moved into on Friday afternoon.  It is small - I doubt it is more than 1,000 square feet.  And it is on the 18th floor, meaning we have no yard of any sort.  But it has 3 bedrooms, giving the girls some space to squirrel their things away and make it their own.  It has a fabulous location.  And it does have a lovely view.  And most importantly, we are already here and decided to avoid anymore dramatic changes.

4. We bought some clothes and shoes and toys and groceries and school supplies and a car.  We decided to replace the red chair.  And we did.

5.  Our friends in Caracas decided how to price everything we left behind, and then sold the vast majority of our stuff.  Now we need to decide what to do with the leftovers, and decide how and when to replace which things and with what.

Just writing this makes me exhausted.  I go into restaurants now and just stand staring at the menu, unable to make one more decision.  But God is good, and has brought us to a place where we can afford to live and are surrounded by people who love us and are very actively caring for us.