It's Our 1-Month Anniversary!

It's hard to believe, but we have already been in Hawaii for a whole month! In a strange way it feels like it's been longer than that, but in other ways it feels like we just got here! We've really been easing into life in Hawaii. We know the time will come for being more a part of the social circle here, but for now we are enjoying a time of, what I would call, hiddenness. Even our little house is hidden as it is unseen from the road to any who pass by. Other than Jenny & Sully, we haven't been to anyone's home and we haven't had anyone over. Okay, I have been to the home of a woman where I attend a weekly Bible study. And she and her husband did stop by once. But other than that, it's been pure family time.

At least until today! Almost as if to commemorate our one-month anniversary here, I had my first friend over. She came by with her 5-month-old son to check out our house and is considering renting it when we move out. We were able to easily connect as mommies with small children and I really enjoyed her company. I actually met her when we were here visiting the area last August. She came to a gathering of Jenny & Sully's friends as a French interpreter for a Haitian man. She was due to have her baby at the time and I hoped I would see her again when we moved here. Sure enough, I was surprised to run into her at the first women's meeting I attended! So anyway, it was just nice to have someone over and begin a new friendship.

And tomorrow the fun continues. We met a young couple at Jenny & Sully's last weekend who invited us to a party at their home tomorrow. Alex is very excited because they have a 5-year-old son he is eager to play with again. They live on several acres outside of town and have quite the shindig planned! At 4:30 they are serving turkey burgers to the kids and have some kind of adventure planned for them. Then at 6:00ish we will have a potluck for the grown-ups (I'm told the children will be taken care of?). They asked Peter to bring his guitar to play some music around the campfire later in the evening. So this should be fun and will give us an opportunity to meet even more people in our little Hawaiian town.


Our New House

I have a feeling that our "season of hiddenness" may end quickly when we move out of this house into our new house, which is located within walking distance to the homes of several families we know. I think I will be ready to have people stopping by to hang out by then. Although I don't know what we will have our friends sit on as we still don't have any furniture! Ha ha... I'm beginning to realize that our new dwelling will be no secret as everyone seems to know "the two-story house on Union Mill Road." There's only one of those and that's where we'll be!