Smol tok nomo |
Smol tok nomo |
The last several weeks have been a whirlwind as we have picked up and left the last three years of life in Vanuatu behind. Leaving “home” to come “home”. Strange as it may seem, nowhere is actually home now and we reiterate to our kids quite often that “home” is wherever we are all together. A few highlights from the motherhood side of things (as if traveling to the other side of the world six months pregnant…again, wasn’t enough): 1. both kids licking the rails in the airport 2.the question of why there is a box with a red light in it and why Dad stops the car every single time at one 3. after about twenty minutes driving in snow, the astonished gasp from the back seat, “is that snow!?” (something your not likely to see in the islands.) 4. The disgusted faces and screams of “what is that smell!?” as my kids smelled a skunk for the first time (and all the laughs from Mom and Dad that followed!) A few highlights of my own would have to be the warm embrace of family and friends, the land of endless ice cream and fast food, warm water with great pressure, and the feel of plush carpet on my toes. Aww the simple things that are never really that simple when you don’t have them on the regular! The price? Missing all the amazing people who work so hard beside us. The ones who are friends and the ones who have become family. Our hearts forever divided between two places, two families, two cultures. The needs we feel so deep after experiencing life firsthand in Vanuatu and knowing we have temporarily left our post for the greater good. We will enjoy our season of rest. We will enjoy reuniting regularly with those we have not seen in years. We will breath in the change of pace in the land of all things available. Then once more our hearts will burn with a fire that can only be quenched by following God back to the place He has called us and the people we have found so easy to love - Vanuatu - home of our hearts! In the meantime, we ask for grace if you see the kids running barefoot, me a little too excited about a buffet or Mexican food, and all the general habits we may have picked up from bush culture over the last several years. We still love our home of the free and the brave, but life's experiences have not left us untouched or unchanged. So ready or not USA the Thomas family is back and will probably be spotted in Chick-fil-A's across the land.
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