It's the simple things in life that you miss the most

Exactly one year ago me and my family followed Gods will for our lives and found ourselves in this strange country of Oz. We arrived on a Saturday and on the following Sunday Alistair McEwen took us four Blackwood kids out to see the bay. He encouraged us to keep a list of the weird things that we encounter in Australia because before too long they won't be weird anymore. I really didn't realize how true that was. I look at things differently now. Most things that I thought were weird then are now completely normal. There are a lot of things from America that I really miss. It's the simple things, the things that I took so much for granted that I miss so much. Things (in no particular order) such as...

• My friends and family
• Square milk jugs
• White eggs
• Yellow stop lights
• Wall mart
• Sams Club
• Deal$
• American ice cream
• Movies 8
• Toco bell
• Biscuits and gravey
• McDonald's breakfast
• Rice crispy treats
• American marshmellows
• S'mores
• Papa Johns breadsticks
• Motzies pizza
• Northside classes
• Southside
• The drives to different places in Indy
• Peoples houses and cars
• 12 and 15 passenger vans in the church parking lot
• Snow in Christmas
• Thanksgiving
• Fourth of July
• Our home in Indy
• Our pets
• Burger King
• Driving on the right side of the road
• Dill pickles
• Robins
• American trees
• Places around Beach Grove (feed and seed, the library, NBO, the bank, the Benedict Inn)
• Dads work
• Snow days
• Our pool
• Grandma and Grandpa's house
• Clogging
• Seek classes
• The orthodontist and dentist (I know I am crazy, but yes I really do)
• Choir
• Streets around our house
• The dear cows
• My mooter scooter
• The lawn mower
• Our go-cart
• Our shed
• Indiana tomatoes
• Conner prairie
• GCA
• Bulldogs
• Sunday school
• CYPU events
• Youth group
• Corn fields everywhere
• Corn detasseling
• Good radio stations
• Fazolies
• Holiday in with the lights in different shapes for different holidays
• American flags everywhere
• Aunt Laura and Uncle Roberts house
• Doing crazy things with the Rays
• ECHO
• Covie/Calvin
• My old bike
• Dandelions everywhere
• Squarles
• Ugly possums
• Family fun night
• Shepherding groups
• Darbie and Dale
• Ultimate Frisbee
• built in dressers
• Grandpa Blackwoods animals
• Colored cups
• Sams club pancake mix, pizza, and samples
• Babysitting for women's prayer
• Hot chocolate and Lemonade after church
• Blueberry bagels with Strawberry cream cheese
• Sledding behind Grandpa's tractor
• Riding horses at Grandpa's
• Charity and Tamara's old stereos
• Our Blue van and mini can
• The mini
• Downtown Indy
• Dairy Queen
• The wood stove in our basement
• Cole gatherings
• Blackwood reunions
• Green money
• The children's museum
• Popsicles
• pink milk on Saturday mornings
• koolaid

I do miss these things so much, but they don't seem so important when I realize that I am here in Australia serving God.

Check out Charity's blog for Anniversary 2

Quote of the post: Don't count the days till you go back, just live each day as it comes because the time will go by fast enough.
-Brett Pluke