Jonesboro, Arkansas

At the end of September our family finished packing our boxes, kissed our family & friends goodbye then set out for Jonesboro, Arkansas.

City living has not been a hard adjustment.  After living in the mountains away from a small town and an hour or so from a big city, I throughly enjoy being literally five minutes from Walmart.  And ten minutes from the mall that includes Target & Bed, Bath and Beyond (two of my favorite stores). Three minutes from our super awesome library.

The kids love it too.  And they are especially loving our rental house and all of the space.  Hannah finally has her own room.  Right now Sammy & Amos share a room and eventually Shiloh will join them.  We have plans to buy a four bedroom house when our year lease ends and our old house sells.

As I've mentioned, we are already enjoying our library.  They have an entire room devoted to children's books & activities.  This past Wednesday, Hannah attended an art class there.  Throughout October & November they are having Art-O-Rama where kids learn about a different artist each week and then try to reproduce some of their artwork.  Last week they studied Michelangelo and the kids taped their papers to the bottom of the table and laid on their backs to work.  It was so neat!

We've also found an Awana program for the kids at a church just three minutes from our house.  Amos was so excited that he took his leader's hand and went to his class without a backward glance.  Hannah & Sammy were a little more hesitant but by the end they were having fun and begging to come back next week.

There are a few kids in our neighborhood but Sammy is so shy that he won't approach them without Hannah.  They're trying to make friends with some of the kids but I'm not sure how friendly some of those kids are.  Keep praying that we will make friends and have other adults/kids to fellowship with soon.  That has been the hardest adjustment of all, being so far away from all of the family & friends we love.

I still need to update on Shiloh, I've been neglecting my monthly updates but I plan to get back on track with those asap.  

I'm trying to figure out how to upload pictures from the iPad and as soon as I do I'll share pictures of our house.