What's up with Elisabeth & George?: Happy Birthday Regin!

Saturday, April 05, 2008

Happy Birthday Regin!

You have brought us the most challenging and beautiful year of our lives!

Here's to the next 100!

7 comments:

Caroline said...: HAPPY BIRTHDAY REGIN!!!!; 4/06/2008 5:18 AM
Anonymous said...: Happy Birthday!!! Mostir and men miss your VERY much. I can remember the excitement a year ago today...we all couldn't wait to meet you. Hope you are having/had a great day.

Love you so much! Muss og klemm,

Mostir (your favorite one!); 4/06/2008 1:45 PM
Reem said...: Though I wrote on your Facebook wall, here it is again (in case you're too busy playing with monkeys to check ur Facebook! ;P)

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!! :-D; 4/06/2008 6:34 PM
Anonymous said...: It's still your b-day on this side of the world! Happy Birthday Regin!; 4/06/2008 8:05 PM
Anonymous said...: Happy Birthday Regin!!!!!!! SG; 4/07/2008 8:10 AM
Anonymous said...: Happy (belated) Birthday Big Boy Regin!

Your Uncle,
K:M; 4/07/2008 2:14 PM
Katrin said...: What a crock!!! You know who your favorite Mostir is. She was THERE seconds after you popped out. I am soooo sorry, though for missing your birthday. We are very busy getting our house ready to sell and Uncle Bret has been out of town. I love you so much, I can't stand it. Will you come live with me while your parents get this wanderlust out of their system? Have your Mamma tell me if she needs anything from this side of the ocean. Then I can send it as a belated birthday present.

Love you even more! Muss, Muss og Klemm.

Mostir (The REAL favorite one!); 4/13/2008 7:42 PM

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How we're doing right now.

April 6th, 2009
Oh man, moving back home has been quite a transition! For Regin especially. It has taken him three months to return to being fully, or almost fully, potty trained. But we're home and happy to be with friends and in an environment where things are easier.

But of course, not everything is easier. George's first day back to work he learned that the company was exiting the business and he and all the other people that work on that product (including all those people he trained in Penang) were told to look for other jobs.

His last day was March 31st. No time for that cozy little 'sabbatical' though; after he finished his last day of work, his family called and told us they are coming (from Florida) for a visit on the 10th! This would be no big deal (other than being terribly exciting) if we were fully moved back in, but of course, until now, we've had VERY little motivation to fully unpack! So now we're preparing the house at warp speed!

You know, I do miss Penang. Hard to say what I miss exactly, because I know it's more than our friends there, but I feel a certain pang. And all the time we were there, other than missing family, friends, easy living, and snow, I never once actually missed 'Colorado.'

When we got back to Colorado, I expected to have a new and complete love for the place. I do appreciate some things a lot more, especially visual things. I see beauty where I didn't before. But it hasn't been the feeling of home that I expected, and I still have some of the same issues with the place. But what I do love IMMENSELY and will always love IMMENSELY is the people we have here. And it's been absolutely amazing to see how Regin has picked right back up where he left off with his loved ones here. There's no doubt in my mind that he somehow remembers them.