I don't even know where to start

I am absolutely overwhelmed by the idea of how to articulate these last few weeks...it's impossible really.

Assume the following:
We got through our flights, customs, and immigration procedures just fine. All three of us are here - and no, Mooshy did not have to go through quarantine (a major "HA!" to everyone who sent me their horror stories about having to leave their dogs behind for months at a time...dooms-dayers are an inexplicable breed but I'm sticking by my 'assume it will all work out and it just might' philosophy.)

My parents are so much cooler than I remember.

The house I'd booked was *not* fabulous. It did not have a vineyard. It did not have internet. It did not have a view. It didn't even have proper water. It felt like the third world all over again. It did have goats, lots of dust, and a creepy RV full of shoes parked in the uh...'garden'.

We got our deposit back and moved into a hotel. This was kind of cool actually because the hotel did have interet and a swimming pool. We felt like we were on holiday and got lots of work done at the same time.

We found a gorgeous new house with an amazing view of the most insane orange and pink desert sunsets - and it's only five streets from my parents' winter home.

We've been busy catching up on work, dealing with ridiculous ongoing server issues (which finally seem to be under control; keep your fingers crossed!), and just getting used to being here. I feel like a foreigner but I like it that way. I don't ever want to get so comfortable anywhere that I forget how the rest of the world actually lives.

We're trying for a baby! We've been waiting for ages and it's time!
And I've just gotten off the phone with The Farm, an intentional community in smack-dab-middle-of-nowhere-Tennessee where we're going to go for prenatal care, a home-birth midwifery, and postnatal care. Who'd have guessed I'd ever willingly choose to go live in the deep South!? Truthfully, I'd go anywhere for the kind of birthing experience these women create.
The Farm is such an amazing concept - it's actually alot like the intentional community I lived in in India. The Farm desperately needs a new website, but you can check it out here to get an idea of what our life will be like in a few short months; well...as soon as we're pregnant anyway.


OK - not exactly the most poetic entry ever but there's no way I can wax eloquent about all the things we've been thinking and feeling lately.
XO from Arizona, U.S.A.!

P.S. McDonald's seems to have taken over the planet while I was away...does this frighten anyone else, or is it just me?