Our New House

I am really trying to post a picture of our new place... but our internet issues here have been challenging.

In the mean time, we are settling in. The work of moving always surprises me... don't I remember what it's like to have to find new homes for six people's stuff?! We actually have most things put away now, a week later, save for a few boxes of books that we have no shelf space for, and some random items that I need to get creative to find homes for.

The boys loved their extra hour of sleep before school this week with our close proximity to Concordia... the entrance to our compound is directly across the street from the entrance to the school. School ended yesterday, so it was only four days of this bliss, but we will all enjoy it in the fall. The girls have found friends in the neigborhood, and I have enjoyed chatting with other Concordia moms who live just houses away from us. Scott's commute is longer by a bit... he is experimenting with an earlier start time to help avoid some traffic. Church is around the corner, we walked there in five minutes last Sunday.

I've told a few people that living here in the Jinqiao area of Shanghai is kind of like small town America... why did we have to come to China to find it?!