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…
//www.youtube.com/get_playerHere is verse two of James’ favorite (for now) Hymn, since a couple months before Christmas. You’ll note that Anna has picked up on some of it, too.
Hi all! Sorry to disappoint – there are no fabulous photos of our kids ripping into their Christmas packages just yet. We spent a lovely day today and had a very tasty, very merry Christmas in our new home. The photos will come. We woke up to our traditional cinnamon Read more…
Right around Christmas starts the hot, dry season of the year here. I’m almost tempted to make a big potato salad every Christmas, but it just seems wrong. I don’t know if it was due to the sudden change in seasons, the sibling slumber party, or just the fact that Read more…
With our new ‘kinesthetic’ teaching philosophy, Joel is doing really well in kindergarten. Here he listens to a story while climbing on the windowsill that overlooks our driveway/sideyard and watching the dog and lizards. Anna is, of course, right behind him. Wouldn’t want to miss anything fun or important!
Okay, so when someone says ‘monsoon’ I think of East Asia, but there has to be better words than ‘heavy rain’ or ‘thunderstorm’ for what we experience. It is not only the fact that half the ocean dumps on our house an hour at a time, it is so loud Read more…
As any parent will tell you, getting good pictures of everyone together can seem an impossible task. I have been known to take a few shots and resort to cutting and pasting smiley faces. True confessions. So it was time for the annual Christmas picture… …and I fell victim to Read more…
Check out my article at Coffeegirl Confessions today. It’s written to women in overseas ministry, but you can read it too. If you read last week’s post on groceries, deliveries and home foods, you’ll surely recognize some of it. Warning: Do not read on an empty stomach, it’s about food. Read more…
It’s been an interesting venture to design our own furniture for local carpenters with paper, pencil and tape measure (the metric side of course!). In a land with very few ‘power tools’ I designed a bed fit for a princess that was ‘shooting for the moon’ if you will. Three Read more…