Adjustment

i know, it's been months since i last updated here.  we've been through a lot of change and somehow it's felt too overwhelming to try to sum it all up here in our family blog.  so, i started another blog in the meantime and have left this one hanging.  but, i'm back and feel a little more equipped to fill you all in on what the burgoyne's have been up to.

hmmmm...i think my last post was written right when things began to change....

we left staff with campus crusade for christ.  we celebrated asher's first birthday.  matt started his new job as a treasury analyst downtown indianapolis.  we made it through an onslaught of winter colds.  we adjusted to our little apartment.  we bought a new car we call the black ninja (our older car is affectionately named the "stormtrooper")

... and throughout these things, we have adjusted.  time is a wonderful thing, isn't it?  we are still going through adjustments but things feel a bit less like we're in survival mode.  we've felt crazy lonely at times.   and just crazy in general, at times.  isn't it strange how change can bring out the best and worst in us?  the thing we've been most thankful for in the midst of it all, is how we've experienced the faithfulness of God at work and how it has at times felt closer than our own skin.  he has been so, so good to us.

i personally have just started to feel noticably more adjusted to being a mom and being a stay at home mom.  though i still have a million clueless moments each day, i feel like i'm right were i'm supposed to be.  maybe this is what other mom's meant when they said they finally felt normal again after so many months.   i don't in any way feel "back to" the person I was.  I feel different but I feel much more at peace with the change and adjusted to it.  asher and i are having a ton of fun discovering the world together, each day.

so yes, adjusting has been a theme these last few months and it's what we've been up to!  thanks to all of you who have offered prayers and encouragment as we've walked through and into all the change.

Flurries

(written 12/26/2009)


Everything is changing. As I write, snow flurries are just beginning to fade into a clear, uncluttered space of sky and air outside of our living room window. Christmas was yesterday and it was a full day of warmth, laughter, feasting and enjoying family. I remembered being enormously pregnant a year prior and how we spent our Christmas day not knowing that Asher would arrive just four short days later. Things have been changing since that memory and continue to do so.

Matt and I are leaving staff and will officially be off of staff at the end of the month.  It is still quite shocking for us.  We've had so many tears with this decision.  Some have been as we've remembered moments and entire adventures God led us through as staff with Campus Crusade for Christ.  We have had opportunities, experiences, challenges that were more than we could have ever asked or imagined prior.  We fell in love with so many different people and places and most importantly, with Jesus in ways that are so precious to us now.  We are thankful.

Bye-bye O year

Our year in Florida is coming to an end very soon. It's amazing; how a place and time in life can sneak up on you and make it's way into who you are. I will miss our year of experiences that are unique to the people and place of this year. I am so thankful to God for all he's put in our lives this year. Here are just some of the things I will miss and remember:


the way the rain and storm can sweep through in an instant. it's reminded me more than once that I am not in control

looking at the water outside our sliding glass window

family walks around and around our apartment complex pond

the perfect winter weather

the beautiful trees...trees covered in spanish moss, palm trees, and southern magnolias

lake hart headquarters

our lake hart stint community. what an amazing group of people: a community full of stories that will make you laugh, cry, open your eyes to new things and grow

wednesday mornings at development

enjoying good food and honest conversation with our life group at Yale & Donna's

coaching times with Jodi

spending time with Tina

praying with Christa

the fun FSG community. they have been so good to us.

my new mom friends and their babies: Lindsey & Emma, Nicole & Lucas, Christy & Britt

going to summit on sunday mornings: the worship, Isaac's sermons, the good coffee, and a sweet girl named Tori who greeted our little Asher with love everytime we dropped him off at the nursery

cuban food

sushi and thai everywhere

woo sung korean grocery store

diversity and color

boston coffeehouse

lakes (but not the gators) and green, green grass (but not the lizards)

sunshine, so much sunshine

Great Grandma and Grandpa

Last week Asher got to meet his great grandparents for the first time! They were on their way home from travels in Africa and got to stopover in Orlando for a couple of nights. It was a sweet time.

First Mother's Day

A couple of weeks ago I experienced my first Mother's Day. Matt and Asher made the day really special. Here is how I was greeted first thing in the morning by Asher.

Months

It's been months since I've posted anything on here! I haven't been much of a blogger these last four months and have been wondering if my blog might have the shortest blog life ever. We've had our hands full, obviously. Full of diapers, baby rattles, Goodnight Moon and a few other things. We just went to Asher's 4 month appointment last Wednesday and so far he is doing great! He's growing like a beanpole and seems to be doing something new everyday. Right now he's working on his squealing and "boo, goo, daa, le" sounds, trying to sit up, roll over without getting one of his arms stuck under his body, grab everything in sight, laugh and pop some teeth. We are having a ton of fun with him and laughing A LOT, ourselves.
Months ago I was telling our life group that having Asher is the craziest thing that has ever happend to me. I still think that. Life has changed (and the change hasn't stopped)! I've been thinking a lot about all of the cultural transition phases I've learned about from moving overseas and back more than once. I think a lot of it has applied and come to mind since Asher arrived.
Other moms I've talked with have mentioned not feeling quite "normal" again until the 7th, 8th or 9th month. At this point, I'm wondering what that really means. Maybe I'll figure it out in a few months. For now, we are in the thick of growing into new people and learning a new language and world in the process. Maybe someday we will feel fluent. Until then, I guess we'll keep working at memorizing Goodnight Moon.

asher is here!!

born december 29, 2008 at 3:29 pm
8 pounds 5 ounces 21 inches