It's been a while....

Wow, my last post was some six years ago - what the heck happened since then? Just to recapitulate:

- got a job in Armenia, so stopped blogging
- got another job
- and another job
- and another job
- joined facebook, so that kind of took away from the desire to express myself further as well
- gained a lot of weight in Armenia
- got assigned to Kinshasa, DRC
- left Armenia
- spent an amazing home leave all over the continental U.S., Hawaii and American Samoa
- spent 10 months in DC studying French, got up to 2+ in speaking and 2 in reading level
- lost SOME weight (yay!!)
- arrived in the Congo
- waited for a job
- got a cool job as the Deputy Chief of Mission's Office Manager
- moved houses to be closer to the synagogue
- got pregnant (what????)
- prayed every day that baby doesn't come early - while in the Congo (I'd rather give birth on the Dulles Airport floor)
- left for DC to have the baby
- baby girl Lani was born on August 5, 2011
- we returned to the Congo beginning of November 2011 and I went back to work (kind of regret promising to go back before I had the baby, wold not have made the same decision again)
- breastfeeding when with baby and pumping at work
- joined pinterest and don't get it, figured I should just use the blog to post the things I like online along with daily observations....

So, let's see what we can do....