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... of us at the airport!!! Boy are they something to see. Picture 21 suicases on one cart, four back packs, a two person stroller loaded down, and three ADORABLE Children wearing incredible (the cartoon movie) t-shirts (so if they happened to get lost someone could remember seeing them)! One of these days, We hope to get those posted for you. You'll love them! Next time you travel remember IT could be worse!!!
Thus far, we have accomplished sooo much each day. Next week SHOULD be a little easier! On the agenda for the past 5 days since we arrived, we had to get Brian registered with the Belgian government here, buy groceries, look at and decide on our apartment, go to a closing type thing for renting our apartment - which took a LONG time, go do another walk through on our apartment, get a Belgian bank account (which requires an appointment), get furniture for our empty apartment, get food for the apartment, find schools to check out for the kids, check for deals on phone service here, find out how to get around town (without a CAR- interesting to say the least), we met with our regional language consulant and our finance consultant, and lots more. BELIEVE Me in a country where you truly feel good accomplishing one thing a day, this has been an incredible past 5 days! Some of you thought that our first week might be kinda slow! It has been running nearly every minute. Tomorrow with the help of our team leader and his wife (which have been with us nearly every moment - helping us tremendously and wonderfully to accomplish ALLL of the things on our HUGE to do list) we are going to be arranging our apartment (setting up the beds etc...) to be moving in, in a day/s. We'll be without email for awhile up to a month or more, while we get the details figured out for installation with the phone company. Please keep praying and emailing us. You have no idea how encouraging that is for us!! We'll be finding places around town where we can check email in the meantime.
They would really like us to have the older two children in school beginning Monday the 17th. SCARY!!! It's hard to give them up. Please pray for wisdom in our choice of school. We need one close to our home - ie NO car and lots of cold, wet, rainy weather! Please also pray that the teachers the children receive will be wonderful patient people of PEACE!!! We also need to find a good nanny for Makinna while we are in language school. We are expected to start language school at the end of March/beginning of April. We would like some down time to site see, and of course, we would love to be able to do that all together before the children begin school for 8 plus hours a day, the school year doesn't end until the end of June! UGG!!! Please pray that as our time together becomes much more precious that we would make the VERY most of what time we do have together even on school days!
Please also always keep language acquisition high on your list. We need it for ourselves as we seek to share Christ here in French, and especially for our chilren in a full immersion situation beginning soon!
Once we get internet in our home, we SHOULD be able to get our Vonage going! Lord willing!!!
Pray for Heather's mom, Karen. Feel free to give her a call or letter of encouragement. It's our old home phone number and address. It's difficult being apart from her after she lived with us for 3 years. She is very dear to us and our children, as you all are. We love you, and are interested in you and your lives. Keep us up to date on you so we know how to best pray for you! All our love, The Zebarths (Brian, Heather, Josiah, Aubriana, and Makinna)