The No Good, Stinky Day
Posted on August 19, 2010 - Filed Under Uncategorized | 6 Comments
It’s been one of those days. It started off fine, though I slept in (after watching Prince of Persia until entirely too late last night). Irving and I went into town and did some grocery shopping because we’ve been eating pretty much only beans for the past three weeks and I needed something decent to [...]
It’s All Good
Posted on May 30, 2010 - Filed Under Uncategorized | Leave a Comment
Just a quick update to let everyone know that we made it through the storm with minimal damage. For the moment it’s stopped raining, but that will supposedly start up again . . . though not nearly as bad as it was earlier. We’ll likely stay put for a while since the roads are going [...]
Why I’ve Been MIA
Posted on May 20, 2010 - Filed Under Uncategorized | 10 Comments
So, I haven’t updated in a bit because a few days ago, I got a note on my Facebook from my sister, Sarah, asking what I was doing on Wednesday. Turns out she was coming down here!!!
And yesterday, she arrived safe and sound in the Guatemala airport. We spent the day hanging out, catching up, [...]
30 Years Ago . . .
Posted on April 12, 2010 - Filed Under Uncategorized | 5 Comments
My dad just sent me this pic of when I was tiny.
Just Today
Posted on February 27, 2010 - Filed Under Uncategorized | 2 Comments
My kids are on a roll! Tonight they came up with a ton of funny little sayings that I have to write down so I won’t forget them.
We read “Just Go to Bed”, a Little Critter story for our bedtime story. As I was finishing up, Dorian ran, jumped onto his bed and yelled, “He’s [...]
Homeschooling, a Hot Debate
Posted on February 19, 2010 - Filed Under Homeschool, Kids, Personal, Simple Life, Uncategorized | 8 Comments
I just read a post that Mark put up on his blog about why he and his wife homeschool their children and found it interesting, but even more interesting were the comments! Homeschooling is SUCH a hot topic for people. When I told my friend (who was a teacher by profession) that I was going [...]
The Good Samaritan
Posted on February 3, 2010 - Filed Under Uncategorized | 6 Comments
Our version, anyway.
It all began on a sunny afternoon when a little boy discovered his father’s motorcycle helmet.
He ran off and when he reappeared . . .
He was a very determined little motorcycle rider, revving his engine loudly, with a fierce look in his eye.
While he roared, the cameramom got distracted by someone [...]
Wow
Posted on January 25, 2010 - Filed Under Uncategorized | 7 Comments
Journalistic photographers are often maligned for grabbing photos and videos of the less fortunate without doing anything to help them. I think we’ve all seen shots where we wondered why the photographer was capturing the picture and not doing something to help, such as this Pulitzer winning photograph that garnered so much criticism (the photographer [...]
48 Hours
Posted on January 14, 2010 - Filed Under Uncategorized | 2 Comments
Please keep Haiti in your prayers tonight. They’ve passed the 48 hour mark, which means from here on out, the vast majority of families will only be pulling bodies from the rubble . . . the chances of anyone surviving much longer while buried are very low.
Of Mice and Men
Posted on January 8, 2010 - Filed Under Uncategorized | 13 Comments
No, I’m not going all literary on you (though Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck IS a great book!), this is just another series of days in our life here in Guatemala.
We have mouse problems. Our house is so far from mouseproof, it’s laughable. First of all, our walls don’t seal with the tin [...]
