- dollar spent (dealing with government is expensive!)
- task accomplished
- load lifted
- step closer
So far we have:
- purchased our plane tickets
- sent off for passports (please pray for quick processing and mercy -- it is possible there could be an issue with Nia's)
- sent off our packet of documents for the Philippine Consulate the authorize/authenticate (he'll mail them back with his "stamp of approval" so when we get there, we should have a relatively smooth process for obtaining visas)
- shipped off 3 enormous boxes of household goods/food/things that remind us of "home"
- purchased nearly all the midwife items I will need (stethescopes, etc., scrubs, birth books ...
- learned a fair amount of words in Cebuano
- ordered some super great Christian tracts in Cebuano (here it is in English)
- signed up for the Samaritans Ministries health cost-share program
- jumped through some pretty hilarious governmental hoops
- drank more coffee than I have in years (Alicia only... Ben's been doing this for a few years now! ha!)
- finished one college course and are halfway through the second
- learned. a. lot.
- seen God do incredible feats!!!
We still have to:
- buy return tickets? (just for processing the visas then we can return them for a refund... gah.)
- sell almost every last thing we own
- speak to our church and different ministry groups
- gather donations for our birth center
- get typhoid immunizations
- figure out the older children's school curriculum for the next few years
- pack 14 50 pound totes/luggage (when ya put it like that... yikes!)
- get CPR certified and hopefully Neonatal Resuscitation Certified (Alicia)
- see lots of family
- GO, already!
It all feels so hypothetical. But all these days... then the day we leave will be here.
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