Adventure Calls

It is only four months till departure--four months till I say goodbye to the quaint, colorful city of Alexandria and say hello--merhaba is the Turkish word--to Istanbul, another colorful but very different city! In an ideal, type-A world, I would know every detail regarding our move, but since that is not the case, I am mentally preparing myself for a tremendous adventure, with many wonderful twists and turns that I will only become aware of as I experience them. The situation definitely calls for some flexibility! I'm sure I will experience culture shock at first, but ultimately my life in Istanbul will not be much different than my life here, which mostly consists of watching my sweet, funny, terribly active baby boy. It is odd to me how quickly life changes: for days upon days it feels like everything is the same, like life is lived in a terrible rut that endlessly (and sometimes meaninglessly) repeats itself, and then one day everything changes in an instant, and that frustrating (but comfortable) rut has vanished, and life has become unpredictable and unfamiliar. I would be nervous at the thought of moving to the other side of the world, but I know wherever I travel God will always listen to my prayers, and my adorable son will always require my attention, and my kind husband will always be by my side as my closest and dearest friend. And so even though moving to Istanbul will bring many changes, the important things will not change after all.