Sunshine Day!

Today is a beautiful day in Hungary!  The sun is shining (I think the birds are singing).  Usually it is pretty gloomy here, which matches the moods of the nationals.  I think for many who are with our company, the "honeymoon" stage of the mission field is over!  For us, it didn't last long to begin with.  It has sunk in that we are living here, that the boys will only see their grandparents on Skype, that we will do without many of our American comforts, that we are here...until the Lord gives us permission to return to the states.   As the weather does get warmer here, it makes us miss home that much more.  Besides my family, I mostly miss my mom's cooking.  She is the best cook ever!  Besides just having to adapt to a new culture, we are adapting to a new life, new job...even new cooking.  The Lord is showing us a lot since we have been here.  I think that we constantly need to be questioning what God would have us do and what is the next step in life.  We definitely do a lot of thinking and discussion as we are here.  I think even if we went back to America now after being here 3 months, we would experience culture shock.  I bought some anti-stress body wash.  Adam says that will not help me.  Today we took the boys to the park and Nic got a chance to play with his friends...the bugs.  How sad.  He had to go pee pee, so I just took him behind the tree. That's the Hungarian way.  Tonight we are going to the Ironman house again for dinner with our national friends.  Their dodolle is awesome!  I can't wait for the dodolle festival in September.  I want to learn how to make it.  Today Nyle did something funny, as he always does.  But this poor baby always acts like he's starving.  He had crumbs all over him and so I asked Nic where his sandwich went, and he said in Nyle's belly.  So Nyle stole Nic's peanut butter sandwich and scarfed it down.  He is a bigger baby than Nic was and likes food.  Well, I just wanted to update the blog.  I will try to get more consistent.