Home sweet...wait, we don't have a home

Well, we have made it back into the States. I suppose I should have written that....oh....about 2 weeks ago, but hey, better late then never, right? We were greeted at the airport by my mom, dad, sister, and niece with posters and flowers- so that was nice. The plane rides were tolerable, but nothing that we want to attempt again in the near future. Since arriving home, we have packed up all of our belongings, moved them to Nebraska, and are (tomorrow) headed back towards Ohio for Ben's graduation.
It seems like it has been years since we were in New Guinea and we miss everyone there terribly. It's kind of a depressing thought knowing that we may never have the opportunity to return....although we are praying for the opposite. I don't know how to summarize what our time in New Guinea meant to us, but we have come back as changed people. I might try in a couple blogs, but I think I'll just hit the biggest issue for me in this one:
We were only in Papua New Guinea for 2 & 1/2 months, but it's like we completely forgot what it was like to be in the States. It sounds silly, but the first time I watched cable television, I just wanted to cry. When we see it every day, we have a tendency to become desensitized to what we are watching. Even with so called "family programming" like Dancing with the Stars. Having my little boy in the room while these women wear little more than bikinis and call them dresses just made me sad. How am I going to teach him to respect women when other women don't appear to want to be respected. (Believe me, before we left, I was a reality show junkie. Not the good ones, I might add- if there are any.) Anyway, I won't say anymore about this issue except the Lord really spoke to me the other night and I was completely convicted on this issue. I want the way I entertain myself and my family to be glorifying to the Lord. It's going to be harder here than it was in New Guinea just because of the overabundance of crap that our pop culture has to offer.
Anyway, all that being said, we are really enjoying spending this last month off as a family. We've been to the zoo a couple times and have just been having fun. Caleb keeps saying that he wants to go back to Papua New Guinea, but I don't think he realizes that we would have to sit through the plane rides again if we were to do that. He is loving seeing all of his grandparents though and they are all spoiling him with new trains and lots of hugs. As for me and Ben- we have been keeping busy with our Wii. We stayed up until about 4 the other day playing- which doesn't help with the whole getting our sleep patterns straight endeavor. We have to do it now though, before he is actually a grown up and can't play all the time anymore!