Home Sweet Home!!

Hello Again!! Well ... we've achieved quite a lot in a short space of time since our arrival in America!! We're learning the many occasions when English words that we use aren't English words the Americans would use (and vice versa!) ... for example over here a 'pocket book' is a handbag ... or when we say we're going to have some tea ... they think we're just having a drink rather than some food in the evening!! It definitely makes life more interesting!!! Other differences include drink cans being 25ml larger than in the UK (so Jenny rationing herself to one can of coke a day ... gets a little bit more to enjoy out here!!) ... no complaints there!!

As well as sorting out the details of our new lives here ... we've had some fun goofing around as a family too!! Here's Abigail enjoying a jumbo pair of oven gloves ... which she thought were hilarious!! On a more serious note though we've done a lot since we got here (thank you for all your prayers about the details!) ... we've found a car (just waiting for the money to arrive so we can go and pick it up!!), taken and passed our written and practical Ohio State driving tests ... (the most nerve racking part of the whole moving across the world thing!) ... and found the new Beckwith family home!! See below!

We picked up the keys and signed the contracts this afternoon and will be moving all the furniture we bought from a departing MMS family tomorrow!! Then it'll just be case of waiting for our shipping to arrive from the UK! We have had a tentative date for our things to arrive in the USA ... 10th October ... it'll then have to clear customs and be brought to Coshocton ... which we're hoping might only take a few weeks ... so please keep that in your thoughts and prayers as we'd rather see it sooner than later!! We'll leave you for now with a couple of pictures taken on our front porch this afternoon ... but will be back once we're settled in our new home ... with internet up and running!!