Jet Lag can be Brutal!

We have been on the ground in Spain for 7 days now!  Jet lag has been very hard for us to conquer!  Adjusting to the 7 hour time difference with 2 children.....  :)

Allergies hit me hard....and combined with a day of hard morning sickness it made my first week a little more exhausting that what it should be.... Whew!

HOWEVER - last night we all went to bed BEFORE midnight AND slept through the night!  That is PROGRESS!!

So, during our first week:

• We were hosted for dinner in home or at IMM for our first 3 nights by different team members.  That was an incredible blessing!  It also kept us "up" until the appropriate times to go to bed!  We also appreciate their immediate investment into relationships with us! They haven't just left us in a new city/country to fend for ourselves! 
• Our "temporary" house was stocked with a couple of days worth of groceries when we first arrived!  Our directors are making sure we are taken care of!  We so appreciate them!
• We are staying in the home of a missionary who is currently in the states itinerating....so we have a house to stay in by ourselves until we can find one.  We are so grateful!
• We were borrowing a van from one of our fellow missionaries that is at home in the states - HOWEVER the battery had gotten low - and after jumping it - the alarm reacted as if it had been stolen!  Every time you cranked it the alarm would go off for at least 30 seconds!  And some days it would not even crank!  Grrrrrr!!!   So our directors traded with us and we are driving their car for now!  It wouldn't be best if we got stopped for driving a car with an alarm going off - and we do NOT speak Spanish (yet) nor do we have a Spanish driver's license (yet)!
• Macy & Mia started school TODAY!  They were SO excited!  We absolutely LOVE the school here!  Their heart and their vision is to invest in and mentor missionary kids living in Spain!  They understand all that missionary families go through with transition and changing cultures....we are beyond thrilled to be a part of the ECA family! (Evangel Christian Academy)
• Every day we are on the run trying to get our paperwork filed here in Spain....apparently everything can take LONGER here!  Business hours everywhere are ONLY 9-2!  So we can only complete about one appointment each day!  
• We hope to start tutoring next week for Spanish.  Then in March we will enroll in a full quarter of language school.