The Pats lost. I can’t believe it. I woke up at 4:30 am to be ready for the live game and my excited body didn’t even realize the hour. Then one mishap after another was played upon the frown wrinkles on my face. We had a wonderful week of many exciting events and yet Im…
Poof!
It’s raining. Again. We are both sitting on the green flowered, well used, sunken government issued couch with our laptops on our laps, our backs in pain typing emails while taking turns with the Ethernet line to send them. Hilarious! I am still in awe of the remarkable ride of this wild week. After the…
Definitely, A New Year
The last day of the year…never thought I’d be sitting in a Navy Lodge in Okinawa in 55-degree weather! The past two days have been a bit of a zombie-like whirlwind. Monday night we said our good-byes to Barrett’s family and boarded a plane to San Francisco. Our plane was delayed a bit so our…
Survival of the Fittest
We’re watching a 60 minutes show on the migration of the wildebeests across the Mara River…huge crocodiles 15 feet long grab an enormous, healthy and strong wildebeest by the horns and four other crocs join to drown the huge beast. The five crocs will now not have to eat for months. In the meantime, the…
Sweet Like Candy
Nine months. That is how long the Lord has given parents to prepare for the joys, hardship, and responsibility of childbirth. Some mom’s go through sickness, back pain, tiredness, food aversions, and other not so subtle reminders of how her body is changing and how a new image of God is miraculously being formed inside…