Klein Family Blog: Back in the USA!

We've been back for 1 1/2 months now, but we've been pretty busy so I haven't kept up with our blog very well. We're starting to feel more settled now so I'll try to do a better job. Over the last month or so we had a few weeks of Kit being home with Jackson and I during the days, while looking for a job. We loved it, especially me, but we've had to let go of that since he has a job now. He's working out at the WIPP site outside of Carlsbad, which is where he was hoping to get a job. It is on a temporary basis at the moment, but it looks like he might get a more permanent job soon. The only down side is he has to get up and out the door at 5am everyday! That is quite an adjustment from his last job. But he gets every other friday off, so that makes up for it.

Everyone keeps asking us what our future plans are but we don't really know. So we are just going to stay here until the Lord tells us to do something different. We're happy to be here and around our family so much more, but we do miss Thailand (even more than we thought we would.) We were very blessed to live there for 2 years and to have all the wonderful friends we had there.

Jackson took some time adjusting to living here. We were traveling a lot even before we traveled home so his schedule was non-existent by the time we got here. To make things worse, we moved from a really warm tropical climate to the extreme opposite. Dry, cool, desert. The dust and other new allergens really worked him over the first couple weeks. We ended up having to take him to the doctor for his weezing and get a breathing machine for him. He's doing much better now though, and is sleeping and eating better too. The last couple months have definately been harder than the first few were, but God is good and has made us able to handle it all. Parenting is definately an on-going learning process.

My family surprised us with a weekend with them all in the mountains. My sister Trudi and her husband Grant (whom I hadn't met yet) and my brother Chris, cousin Julie, and my nephew Keiten all made a long trip to be here for it. We had so much fun being with them all again (it had been 3 years) and getting up in the cold mountain air was so refreshing. We are big sissies for the cold after living in Thailand for two years. One day it is warm here and the next it is cold and windy.

Here are a few pictures from our welcoming party at the airport and our weekend in the mountains.