Prep Work

120 Days of Galway -  my new, improved, and Irish version of Footnotes.  Although I could pretend that there is a deep reason for this change, I will just admit that I wanted a new name and background for my blogging endeavors in Ireland.  I will try to blog faithfully here while I am abroad so that I am not a stranger when I return (in order for this to be succesful, I will have to step up my blogging considerably).  

Yesterday I was looking through recipes and noticed that many of the cooks noted that the prep work was the most time consuming and exhausting part of the process.  I am beginning to get the feeling that it is the same when you are preparing to go abroad for several months.  I am days away from heading off on my European adventure, yet I can hardly see past all the last minute details.  And, to be completely honest, I'm not sure if this is because of the sheer amount of loose ends left to tie up or because I am too terrified to take my eyes off them and to really consider what I am getting myself into.  Every time I do I either get very excited or ask myself, "What were you thinking?!"  I am sure that if I didn't have the guarantee that God was going to be with me every step of the way, I would be a complete mess by now.  The knowledge that my best friend, Comforter, Lord, Love, and Redeemer is going with me is one of the things that is allowing me to approach my pending departure with a measure of bravery.  Not that I'm not screaming inside as I write this, of course!

On a very different note, I found a wonderful site that my multitude of faithful readers (all 5 of you) should check out.  It is called (in)courage, and you can find it at www.incourage.me.  It is a group of women who blog about their lives, families, and walks with Christ.  I am not usually into sites like these, but this one caught my interest right away.

One final comment -- although I am not in Ireland for 120 days, it sounded much better than 110 or 111 (the real number), so I decided to bend the truth a little!