Politics and moving

I am not sure if a local staff can even explain the complexity that is the elections in Lesotho. I am not even going to try because I would not do it justice. What I will say is that 2 parties were very close in the final election and now have a chance to join with a party that was less successful in the vote and combine to beat the other party and name their Prime Minister. There is a great deal of debate in the Parliament about this right now and the parties involved have until this Friday to select their new Prime Minister and begin running the government. Things have been peaceful in the city so we went out to the store and to church and everything seems to be running smoothly and as it should. I can not thank you enough for all your prayers and encouraging emails while we waited in uncertainty. We have been told that as long as the army and police stay out of this (they have sided with different parties), all will stay peaceful, so that would be one more prayer request to keep the peace.

A small update on BG and our family. We have moved into a house that is still on campus, but closer to the preschool. It is a 2 bedroom duplex and the other half (which is separated by a wall unlike our other house where we shared a kitchen) of the house is going to be used for volunteers. The original intent was for families who were adopting to use these houses while in the bonding phase, but DSW (Dept. of Social Welfare) has told us that families may not stay on campus so we are putting the house to use. Our former house is getting a nice paint job and the play group is moving into one half and big teams coming to volunteer will be staying in the other half. We are excited about the move as winter is approaching and it will be very nice for the playgroup to be inside for the cold months. I have been busy (hence the lack in keeping up with the blog) unpacking and finding homes for all our things inside our new house as it is a bit smaller that our previous one.

One thing I am learning is that we do not NEED all the space we thought we needed as a family. We used to live in a 4 bedroom house with a basement and a 2 stall garage and we had SO MUCH stuff. Now we live in a 2 bedroom house (like an apartment) with no garage and no basement. The kids bedroom is our school room and Bryan and my bedroom is just big enough for our double bed and a bookcase. We are cozy, but we are happy. Although, I think the kids fought less when they had their own rooms :) There is nothing wrong with my 4 bedroom home in Zeeland, but living here really makes me think about how much we have verses how much we need.