First, Mrs. Stockdale and I need to say thank you to all our friends in Kansas City.  We’re going to miss you.  Not a little, but a lot.  The decision to move the Stockdale’s to Singapore wasn’t easy.  We left a lot beind in KC -great friends, a great schools for the little Stockdales with amazing teachers, our favorite house that we ever owned (don’t even get me revved up about this one), and on and on.

There were some tears shed on the way to the airport and some more when the plane left the ground.  I’m sure we haven’t finished being sad about leaving, but we’re also excited to begin this ‘adventure’.  It’s odd, everyone we’ve told about this has almost universally described it as an adventure.  For some reason, I think this should scare me.