The Eve Before...

It's the night before I've been here 3 weeks.  It's also the night before we get our home.  I had the shades wide open tonight and I don't know what prompted me, but I suddenly stopped and just looked outside.  I started thinking about how foreign and weird it felt to be here the night Baby girl and I landed.

When I looked outside, the buildings in the foreground looked like any other military base, but in the background the buildings seemed like anything but what you'd find in the States.  Tonight, however, I found it felt like home already.  The streets off base that I could see from my window lead to places I've been.  I know where they take me!
It makes me wonder where we'll be when we're back here (WestPac Lodge) in what I am sure will be 3 short years.  Baby girl will be 4 1/2- she will be a totally different person than the one who is leaving the lodge friday morning.  And when we return, who will K and I be?  Our adventure is just beginning and I feel like if we run freely with it we won't return the same people, either.
God has given us an incredible opportunity.  If we make the most of it we could be setting ourselves up to have a very sweet life when we come back (even moreso than we have now!).  But tonight I already feel it-- it will be very hard to leave Okinawa.  I love this place already.  I'm ready to start our new life- our adventure has only just begun and we love every moment already!