…last week we went camping with our church family near Bend only to discover that the mosquitoes in this particular Federal Campground are much worse than anything I’ve experienced on the equator in Africa. I wore socks to dinner one night and forgot to spray them with DEET. Big mistake. Read more…
I promised you the story, and even though it’s been nearly 3 weeks now, I will fill you in on how Joel’s 4th birthday went. He must have liked it because he continues to ask several times per day, “How many more days ’til my next birthday?” We wanted to Read more…
Four years ago today, in the twilight hours of the morning, God gave us Joel. Born in France, he spent the next two birthdays in Kenya, and these last two in the USA. We had a fun picnic party this morning at a park complete with cupcakes, friends and water Read more…
When life gives you lemons, … you know how the saying goes. We had not planned to still be here in the US this summer. We tried to take in all of our favorite ‘summer’ things last year: the berries, the swimming lessons, picking more berries, going camping, eating more Read more…
We often pray for people to have ‘journey mercies’, that along their travels God would make things go unexpectedly well for them. Well, one of our hugest ‘journey mercies’ this year (+) in the US was undoubtedly having JimKrisJimmieKaitlynandCaleb for neighbors. We were neighbors 5 years ago in the same Read more…
Also on this trip, we celebrated our ninth anniversary! Yeah for nine years! After working hard on our communication this year we can both say our marriage is doing better than ever before! We had a beautiful hike up most of a mountain, got to view a beautiful lake down Read more…
You can’t tell from these gorgeous blue eyes, but during our trip to Seattle we had our SECOND visit to the ER in one week! Joel was trying to ‘jump like a frog… backwards… off Gma’s coffee table’. Bad idea. It was around 7:30pm (bedtime). He was bored. His brother Read more…
“Hula Anna’ absolutely loved dressing up in this fun skirt! She would be so busy looking down at it, she forgot where she was going. This afternoon we had a play date with friends we haven’t seen in nearly 18 mos. They were living/working in East Africa and we were Read more…
Saturday we planned to drive north to Seattle.Our allergist told me that a grass pollen count of 30 parts per cubic meter is relatively high in other areas. She told me that in the lovely Willamette Valley in June (‘grass seed capitol of the world’!), the counts are easily in Read more…
For quite a while now I’ve been wanting to reference a blog that was influential in my mommy life. People with 3 small children have unusually busy lives for a season. For us, we are throwing a nomadic and inter-cultural lifestyle full of packing and moving on top. I found Read more…