“How’s Africa?” “What’s it like in Africa?” We’ve been asked these questions over and over again when we visit the US. While I don’t mind these questions and I understand where they are coming from (a desire to get to know and understand the place where we live) they are difficult to answer for several […]
Upon our arrival back in Uganda, our home was a perfect example of Newton’s second law of thermodynamics: the entropy of an isolated system always increases. Our house = isolated system Our house = increased entropy We discovered a forest growing in a part of our yard that no one could reach with trimmers. Trees […]
Again, I thought I was done after Part 2. However, I know people were praying for us in our travels, and I need to brag on God and what He did on our behalf. We’d repacked everything, readjusted, moved things, gotten everything to weight. In some cases, I knew I was pushing the weight limit […]
It’s one of the most painful things we have to do. It makes our life feel transitive, impermanent, without real physical or emotional ties. It hurts. It’s a struggle for my kids in particular. This hurts a mother’s heart. We do it here, then we have to do it again in Uganda. We have to […]
There was never supposed to be a part 2 to this story. I felt like my last post on it was sufficient. Then we got to the train station Saturday morning. James and I worked all week to get the packing done. We weighed, repacked, weighed again, repacked some more, until we got everything up […]
Numerous times we’ve had people say to us “We appreciate the sacrifices you make!” While we acknowledge the sentiment, we don’t feel like we are sacrificing by living on the mission field. I have a corner full of luggage that can attest to this lack of sacrifice. :-/ It’s difficult to condense one’s life into a […]
We had workmen in our yard repairing our dog pen which left us with a quandary: How would we restrain the very guard dog whose pen they were repairing? Teal’c was a great guard dog. Any stranger in the yard was fair game. You could not claim his bark was worse than his bite. He did […]
My best friend, Rachel Miller, just released her second novel. She is prepping for the sequel to those books and blogged about it on her author blog. She finished her post with the questions: Are you an author? What plotting/outlining methods and tools do you use? I decided to answer her question in my own […]
One of my least favorite chores to complete as we prepare to leave for Uganda (or while prepping to come back for furlough) is packing. I dread it. I lose sleep over it. I agonize over every packing decision. Every piece of luggage must be exactly 50 pounds AND the items inside must be balanced […]
Last year, the kids decided they all needed to pose as the Egyptians they’d seen in the hieroglyphs in the Cairo Museum. Goofy kids! They were brave letting me document it for future generations. (Brennah was just trying to keep the wind and her hair out of her eyes!