Ok. So I’m back. The last 6 months or so has found me moving my professional life and personal life a whole ton closer while moving into one of the most challenging, filled seasons of our life as a family. The reality is a blog IS a public mouthpiece for someone, but things I want, I need to say, are sometimes best kept a bit quieter. It’s forced me to move to a ‘secret’ blog in an effort to get thoughts out and I’m really sick of doing a secret blog.

So, in brief, where we’re at in March of 2010:

Melissa and I are running a half marathon in May: I’m finding I adore running. There are a ton of lessons to be learned while moving your body 6 miles (currently) down a road. I’m learning to be patient, enjoy the moment, trust in the process that God is taking me on and to really eat better. The way it’s working right now is that my training has me doing a mid range run twice a week and an increasingly longer run on Saturdays. This week was a 6 mile run.

We’re moving: in roughly two weeks, we’re upgrading our house. It’s that weird ‘mid career/bigger family’ move. God was really gracious in getting our place sold incredibly quickly. The intentions of this move are pretty transparent for us. Our current place will be getting increasingly awkward to live in over the next few years for size (we only have 1 bathroom), and we’d like to adopt more. Growing our family will be easier with a slightly larger house and we’ve been burdened to host people. All through our married life, we’ve loved having people spend the night at our place and this house will bring that back into our reality.

Kids are wonderful: Back a while ago Nicholas Cage stared in a movie called ‘family man’ and it really made me cringe a bit. The buried lie there is that somehow being a ‘family man’ isn’t a good thing and I’m finding the truth is very different. Aidan is wonderful, just wonderful; he’s an intellectual 25 year old trapped in a 6 year old’s body; at least when he’s not tired or freaky about something. Iona is  a gem. She’s such a true girl in how she interacts and loves her family; she’s so compassionate (when she wants to be :) ). Lord willing, we’re starting up the adoption process again sometime this summer. Details, TBA.

So, what’s to come? Back to general banter, a peek into Pete’s life and our life as the Juvinall’s. Glad to be back.