Lux et umbra vicissum…

A new friend came to visit today! Here’s a couple of pictures of him…

Though we enjoyed the visit (the kids loved it!), we decided that our friend should probably be moving along his way. Joel and I then spent about a half hour chasing him around the yard trying to catch him in [...]

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I set up an etsy site.
http://beadsnwood.etsy.com
Thanks for the suggestion, Nat!  I made it so that Joel can list some of his woodworking there at some point, too.  Now I’ll have to try to finish up a bunch of my UFO’s – unfinished objects!  I’m building up quite a collection of them at this [...]

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I haven’t felt much like blogging lately.  My grandmother took a turn for the worse a couple days ago and they were sure she wasn’t going to make it.  She rallied a bit, though, and is still hanging on.  I’m just trying not to get my hopes up too high.  The whole thing is incredibly [...]

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Items accomplished yesterday:
notarized numerous papers
got money orders for background checks
kept track of five small children
mailed background check requests
mailed requests for reference letters
bought many, many stamps
set up sleepover for Alexis for tonight
finished fund-raising letter
wrote down over 250 names of people to send letter to
created and printed post-placement report pictures for Desta and Eli
Things still to do:
go [...]

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She went in after a routine biopsy gone awry.  They were biopsying a lump on her breast – an outpatient procedure, normally – and somehow they nicked an artery.  They didn’t know she was bleeding at first, but her blood pressure dropped, she started struggling to breathe, then she went into shock and her heart [...]

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I know that God owns the cattle on a thousand hills,  but I don’t understand why some of them are so skinny.
BBC News Report
One place I’ve found that’s trying to help is Unicef.  AWOP could also use your help as they try to feed the children in the orphanages, care for sick and dying people [...]

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We’re getting close.  Our home study update is almost done, and it won’t be long before we have all of our dossier together.  Then comes the real faith test: to send in the dossier we’ll need to have more than $15,000.  Right now we have maybe a couple thousand that we’ve saved.  (We’ve already paid [...]

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As a reward for reaching their “advanced reading” goals, the kids at my daughters’ school were allowed to take part in a “Fear Factor” event that the staff set up out in back of the school. Now, this is an elementary school. They couldn’t do anything too traumatic or dangerous. So it [...]

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The Hotel Room in Hosanna
There is one “western” hotel in the area, and we have a room in it.  I haven’t caught the name of it yet.  I’ll have to ask Michelle again.  [It was called Hotel Hossanna as I discovered later.]  It’s somewhat… interesting.  Michelle told me it was only built a couple of [...]

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Thought I’d post a picture of Eli’s cake from Monday.  Joel’s been out of town for business for a couple of days since then, so my parents are helping me out.  Joel will be back tomorrow and I’ll be back onto a more normal schedule.  I’ll try to pick up typing up the journal entries [...]

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