Last week we sent off (in Anna’s words) Brooke, baby Chad, Brooke’s Mommy and Brooke’s Daddy for their furlough in the US. She will really miss her little friend. Anna really has no concept of saying goodbye for months on end, and continues to ask when we can play with Read more…
[After malaria and the flu, we are finally on our feet again getting ready for school (we’ll start Labor Day Lordwilling) and easing back into the ‘everyday’ things, like this blog entry that I drafted 2 weeks ago…] Sometimes I hate ‘inside jokes’ don’t you? They seemed designed to leave Read more…
NOTE: Before sharing my experience with these parasites, I must first confess that I did not take my prophylactic (preventative) meds very faithfully, having never had a problem we were a bit over-confident; given that, only one out of five of us getting sick is pretty good considering the stress Read more…
Last time we tuned into the saga of a safari roadtrip, our favorite family of five had just finished a vacation on the Indian Ocean… Now it is time for them to head home: Day 19: Sunday in Nairobi. Anytime we are able to we enjoy visiting with our favorite Read more…
Please pray for Kim’s health right now. We’ve been going through several bouts of illness as a family, and were just starting to make significant progress again on setting up the house, but Kim’s down again. There are indications that it may be a serious flu strain, so we’ve been Read more…
Here’s the tire we pulled off of our right rear wheel, with only an hour to go before we would have been home. It rained before I could get a photo, so some of the dust got washed off.
Day 9: How amazing is it to wake up in a resort where someone else will make my bed and create fun breakfasts for the kids?! This morning I woke up totally lost as to where we were. I guess that happens when you’ve slept in 5 different rooms in Read more…