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One Month at Home

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All the grandchildren at our house for dinner NOTE - Not sure why this is all underlined - couldn't figure out how to make it go away It is one month today that we arrived back in PA.  It just seems like an update should be sent on how things are going. It seems to be not stop for us.  It is almost like moving to find what we packed, get them organized and back in place.  I usually am good at being organized and having a plan, but did not think ahead about making a note or list of where we put things when we packed them up for our mission.  It took us 2 days to find the pots.  We haven’t run out of things to do yet.  We also had a mice issue while we were gone.  They had a field day in our basement; which is huge.  That has kept us really busy.   We did come home to a house that looked great.  Abe and Anya painted all of the living area and the bedroom the boys used.  They also shampooed our carpet and had all our furniture in place.  That was so wonderful!! Kate and Drake ca
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Final Email - Journey Home

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I know it seems I would never get this last email out.  We finally got our internet yesterday and have a little bit of breathing room. This week has really been a whirlwind for us.  Just last Sunday we were biding farewell to our Newcastle family and heading home.  Nothing seemed like we were “leaving our mission” until we got past Rapid City, SD.  The scenery and such were just places we had visited before.  We made it to Sioux Falls SD the first night.  Along the way, we had intended to check out the Badlands in SD but didn’t realize there was a fee.  So we only got to see what was near the road.  The Badlands looked cool, but nothing compared to the Black Hills.   Even though we were driving separate cars, it was easy enough to talk to each other if we got lonely.  Sometimes, we would just drive and chat.  We didn’t get into Sioux Falls until about 8 pm.  We were grateful there was a Texas Roadhouse just across the parking lot, so we ordered up some grub and relaxe
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