Handmade/Remade

Several people have asked what I made each of the kids for Christmas… With trimmings untrimmed and school underway again, I thought it was about time you got to see the pictures. First, some background: After moving from house to house for a few years we had a bizarre assortment Read more…

The Story

Yes, I am only caught up on blogging through Christmas Eve… please just deal with it. It would’ve been nice to share all this via my mobile blogging on my Blackberry or iPhone, but alas, don’t own one and couldn’t do it anyway from here, so you will just have Read more…

Pineapple

Since I know many of you don’t have pineapple growing in your backyard, and because I find them gorgeous and interesting as plants… I will share the little I know about the pineapples growing in our backyard. Now this is one tropical fruit I can’t get enough of! So a Read more…

Candycane

You can probably guess that candycanes haven’t really taken off in Europe.And if they haven’t taken off in Europe, they don’t really make it to South Africa.And if they don’t make it in South Africa, we can’t usually find it in East Africa. So we were pretty excited when someone Read more…

Remembering 2009

What was 2009 for us? The year God moved this ragamuffin family of 5 from the West Coast to the Eastern border, halfway around the world… …without exaggerating. Another year of learning as slow as molasses that there is nothing anywhere worth trusting other than Him. A year to begin Read more…

Backyard Tour

Every month all our pictures go into a folder and categorized (or deleted!) and pile up until at the end of the year I burn a few DVDs of the pictures from the whole year to back up and start afresh. Looking back over December pictures, I didn’t do a Read more…