We transferred our things from Lawrence KS to Joplin MO last Monday and ourselves to my parents' home on Tuesday. Extricating ourselves from our apartment lease was a difficult and shady business but we feel relieved to have it completed (or rather, we hope the deed is indeed complete) and have been enjoying our hobo-habitations. Malachi is particularly fond of my parents' emotionally needy German Shepherd - his vocabulary now includes "dog" - and of the gray wires that protrude from Dad's chin.
Thaddeus had a web-cam interview with the Korean Consulate on Wednesday. South Korea must have deemed him adequate and drug-free, because...
We have our e-tickets and itinerary. We're flying out of Northwest Arkansas Airport on Sunday April 19th, at 11:25 am. The concreteness of receiving tickets and times has created alternating panic and excitement for me, and the steady growth of anxious excitement for Thaddeus I think.