How to Handle Stress

So, how do two stressed out people handle it? By running around all week doing errands, filing paperwork, getting documents notarized, authenticated and apostilled (all for a million dollars) then...

...having a nice Cinco de Mayo dinner at a Mexican restaurant and going to see M:I:III. It was a hoot, and a nice distraction from all the hubub around here.

Owen has been talking about his little brother and sister for a few days - what he'll tell him and read to him, etc. But then today, out of the blue, he said he didn't want to be the big brother. A good lesson for us to remember that this is such a big change for him, we need to trend lightly and consider his feelings of uncertainty.

There's another couple, Jennifer and Rob who arrived in Astana last Monday and I've been in touch with them. (We have the same agency.) They have their son (a boy by request) and have found an apartment. They'll have cable internet access so that gives me hope that we'll be able to access our blog and email from our new home.