back in Iraq

Just a note to say that we made it safely back to the country! I will try and post some more pictures of our time in Bangkok this week. It was quite a trek to get back here and in the future I will try to not travel internationally in my third trimester, but in just 3 weeks and 4 plane rides we will finally be home!
We returned just in time for Ramadan so that will be interesting, we've never been in a Muslim country during this time of fasting. It already seems so different. None of the restaurants are open during the daylight hours and lots of shops are closed for the 30 days of fasting. I'm glad we get to be here to experience a little of it and will hopefully get to break the fast with some of our friends and neighbors before we leave.
I was awake extra early this morning, half jet lag, half our electricity going off and as I was grumbling over the heat and lack of electricity I was reminded of something important that came out of our time at the conference....be thankful! The last 7 months in Iraq have been varying degrees of hard and harder and I let myself get so bogged down in it that I forgot to be thankful for anything! So, I spent time this morning being thankful that I had extra time to pray and read and remember the things God has done for us.