Splendid news

A. is expecting our fourth child!! We’re over the moon! It’s still very early, not three months yet, but we are announcing it to friends and family nevertheless as it will have major implications for our life as a family in the year to come. Medical facilities here are such that A. and the children will leave the country at the end of June to stay in Lith until at least January 2007, possibly March (baby is due for early December). I am saving up most of my leave for the second half of the year, and although it will not be easy, we’ll be able to limit my absences from the family to three periods of about six weeks each over seven months (June-December). That seems doable. We were very relieved to find out that it was no problem at all to place M. and T. at a local school in Lith, which will give them a true ‘roots’ feeling and playmates for our future stays there we hope. Given the increasing threat of instability out here I am actually not too unhappy about the family going back to Europe for a while. We wouldn’t be immediate targets, but it is one factor less to worry about.