Some Big News

This blog began as a way for us to document our experiment/experiences as we decided to take the plunge and live abroad. We knew there would be many new challenges, cultural differences, adjustments, struggles, and triumphs. That has all been true, and to the best of our ability, documented. However, this blog has also kind of served as a time capsule for us. It has captured many more moments than what we now consider a part of "living and teaching overseas." It has been a running account of our lives in many ways and included things that had nothing to do with our teaching. We have lost loved ones. We have missed out on family events and milestones at home. We have documented our own travels, adventures, and triumphs that resulted not from our distance from home, but from our daily lives. This blog includes photos from our engagement. It has stories from our families as they came to us for our wedding. It has been some combination of our frustrations and celebrations as foreigners in new lands, a family photo album, and a journal for us to look back upon. It is also a method for us to share our lives and our milestones with those whom we love who live far away. I am incredibly grateful for the way this has evolved into a tool for us and a reflective soundboard for us.

Since this blog has served as all of those things for us, while it has nothing to do with us teaching overseas, we both feel it is important, and appropriate to update our life milestones further. Shannon and I recently found out that we are going to be welcoming a new addition to our family. She's pregnant! It's early, and we have a long way to go, a lot to learn, and a lot of preparation. However, we can speak to the fact that we are incredibly excited, anxious, nervous, and happy.

This blog has served us well over the course of the last five years or so. It has been a place for us to share our news and our lives with everyone we love. We hope those of you who read this are excited for us, and find it worthy as a post to this record of our adventures.

We will be sure to add stories of the absurd, difficulties, and further adventures related to this whole experience.