Oftentimes, I neglect jumping on the blog to write a quick story, or quickly posting a few photos on Facebook, because I feel like our lives here are so different and I haven’t posted often enough for anyone to be able to really understand.
But I want all of you who are family and friends and supporters to be able to have a context for our lives here! I want you to remember us in your prayers because we need it every day.
So for today, I will post (some un-posed, all un-filtered, some blurry) snapshots taken throughout my day these last couple days and you can at least get a glimpse through my eyes and a quick update on us.
Laundry: Weaning and/or the stomach bug that passed thru here = lots of dirty wet diapers for this baby. During the week of diarrhea, she was happy and content, but she sure did require lots of bathing, washing, hanging laundry, and stuffing diapers.
Saturday is a local "market" day and I can't physically hold Annie, get money out of my bag, and put vegetables into my bag. So Annie sits with Dad and visits.
After a couple days of throwing up last weekend, we went to the waterfall on the boys' first healthy day. They were able to walk there and back, but at the waterfall they were too tired to play, so we sat and chatted.
Sick again. Her belly was so uncomfortable she wasn't napping well, so I put her on my bed and patted her bottom while trying to write an email.
Zach teaching on Sunday afternoons. I am usually standing in back with Annie who likes to yell when there is too much silence. This pic is from a while ago when our coworkers, the Mitchells, were still here.
On our way back from the teaching: Zach entertaining some kids with a trick.
Watching Dad repair a screen.
Laundry, again. Hanging laundry on the line is the reason Annie is usually just wearing a diaper ;)
Last weekend, these boys got it in their heads to type two stories each. They have never done this and they wrote about 4000 words each. SO! This week we skipped dictation, writing, and narrations in school. Win.
This girl loves corn from here so much that we save it for dessert. She doesn't have ANY teeth yet, still, so she just sucks and gnaws on it.
Sick again. There are kids with colds everywhere and it is nigh impossible to keep Annie from the germs.
Unable to agree on how to pose for the picture.
My view right now. This is the cost of writing a blog - give the baby all the markers to dump on the floor and try to buy yourself 20 minutes.
I'll finish with this pic of my friend holding my other friend's baby, because sleeping babies are the cutest.
We're with
FinisTerre and sent by
Grace Bible Church.