After 7 weeks in America visiting friends and families and enjoying the holidays, it was finally time to return back to India. We usually take a 3 hour flight from Austin to Newark then a 13 hour flight from Newark to Delhi, followed by a 5 hour drive through the night to our city. Its a very long trip but God was so gracious and the flights were really easy!
The view of NYC from the sky.. so many lights and people.
Madelyn got a little bored in her seat, but both kids stayed in their seats both flights, only getting up to go to the bathroom a few times. I'm so impressed with them.
We arrived at Delhi still smiling and were so thankful that all our luggage made it too. We've flown internationally ALOT of times and have yet to lose our luggage on the trip, which I find surprising and am so thankful to the Lord.
Jet lag lasted about 5 days. Its always alittle hard to get back into the groove of making meals, fixing things around the house and being productive. The kids and I have done a lot of homeschool while on break so they are still up to par with their classmates when they return.
The kids used to share a 14 in bike but when we got back we went to a bike shop in the market and purchased them 16 and 20 in bikes. They go so much faster on their big bikes! They were very excited!
On January 1st we had our friends over for dinner and playing. We were supposed to meet on New Year's Eve but most of our family was asleep by 6 pm so our New Year's celebration was postponed a day.
Now that we're back in town we're having different friends stay at our house to hear how their work has been these last couple months and talk about the year to come. We also try to do a lot of fun things together to build relationships. We had 2 families in town this week and showed them how to play Rock Band, foosball and bowling. They loved all the games.
We like to have special themed family movie nights. For our first special movie night we went to the market with the kids to buy new fish for our aquarium and then snuggled up to watch Finding Nemo.
We went to buy the kid's school winter uniforms. Madelyn's best friend got a spot in her class over the break and we are so excited for them to get to go to school together.
When we rented this house in July the summer heat was blazing, especially on our top floor, but we talked about what a great quiet time place it would be in the winter.
The winter has come and it has been a great morning spot for me.
I usually wake up really early for my quiet time and at 6 am the Muslim call to prayer sounds out into our neighborhood. Its a great reminder.
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