Recently Daniel and I decided to set aside the first Saturday of each month to go on an outing with our family and dubbed it “Adventure Weekend” to give our children something to look forward to each month. To start things off right, we …
What do little girls want for their birthday? When asked, Elanor declared that it must have “balloons, cake and pink”. Pink what? Pink everything…and a little bit of princess to go with it. So Mommy started planning early this time around so she wouldn’t be up until midnight the night …
My art professor in college always said that bigger is better. She would look at our tiny canvases and tell us they were too small and give us examples of abstract expressionists like Robert Motherwell …
Every week we have several children who stop by our house asking for food, water or plastic to recycle. In an effort to learn their names and pray for them more often, I decided to take a photo of each one and write down their names and ages. I am …
Lately it seems like a lot of people have been asking us what we are going to do next. Our usual answer is that we will stay here until God tells us to move, and we firmly believe this. It has been three …
A couple of weeks ago on one of our trips to the supermarket, Isaiah and I had a discussion of possible party themes for his upcoming birthday. I suggested the usual…pirates, jungle safari, space adventure; and then Isaiah informed me that none of those would do, he wanted a …
I don’t even know where to begin. The past two weeks have gone by in a blur and I’m still not sure when life will get back to normal. The whirlwind began as Batman, Kaptain …
This is probably the one time of the year that I REALLY miss being in the States. October has always been my favorite month. I love the crisp chill …
Hi, I just wanted to share a quick note about my recent weekend trip to Singapore with my friend Julie (she and her husband are students here at Asia-Pacific …
Foam shapes scattered across the table top, smudgy lines marked out by oil pastels and drips and splatters of watercolor all make up the abstract works of art by the children …
