Five Walls at Sea: While we wait

I have this whole blog just waiting to be posted about what is next for us, for Mercy Ships. However, some details about our plans are still being worked out so we've been asked to wait to post any information about it just yet. I thought that while we wait I'd share some pictures with you! We have been "waiting" for quite a while. Waiting to get back onto the ship, waiting for plans about what country will be next, waiting for propeller issues to be resolved, waiting on news about Ebola in West Africa, waiting again to see what country we might be going to, waiting to sail, waiting for direction, waiting on God. For John and I, all this waiting has, at times, been difficult but the time has also been full of really great things. After all, the Canary Islands are not a bad place to be "stuck".

When we did move back onto the ship after our long stint in the hotel several weeks ago, we got to move into a bigger cabin. We feel so blessed to have so much more space than we did before! Here are some pictures of our new place:

Cabin #5233

View from doorway. Jack's room on left, bathroom, girls' room and our room on right.

Bathroom

Jack's room. Murphy bunks on right and his crib on the left.

View from the bunks

Girls' room

They can actually play in their room now! (and, yes, it always looks this nice :) )

Our room

Our new room is about 3x the size of our room in our old cabin

"Kitchen"

View from kitchen into living space

The girls' favorite place, the art nook

View from the windows back towards the front door

One of the things I love most about what we are doing is that even though our plans and locations change, our home stays the same. We are so thankful to call this cabin home!!

Since our home is constant, the kids really haven't had any issue with all of the waiting. To be honest, I'm not sure they really even understand. They will ask periodically "when are we going back to Africa?", but really (as you can see), they are enjoying their time of waiting. I have tried to learn from them. . .to live in the moment and make the best of it.

Playing at one of the great parks in town!