Shopping for friends

Ok, now I know some of you will relate to this. You know the feeling.  It happened to me in junior high, again in college, then when I was new to Portland and went to my first care group meeting, and now here in Africa.   Standing in a sea of people and wondering: ...

4 year old Paparazzi

Ever since Joseph (the neighbor boy who adopted our family) took the camera and snapped a few pictures in the house, Eli and Lucy have been angling for chances to snatch it themselves. I can be a little ADD so sometimes it takes the bright flash of the camera before I...

Grab Bag Blog

Just like a grab bag, you never know what you might get. This week we have been wonderfully solicited for money 4 yes, FOUR times.   The 4 needs were:  a split open head (ok, when you get in a fight with a rock you should be prepared to pay your own medical bill); a...

Doctor Update

Sorry that I wasn’t able to write yesterday when we returned home from the doctor and Nairobi.  We have been fighting random power outages for about a week. So I had an appt. with a wonderful ob/gyn yesterday.  She was everything I had prayed she would be: ...

The doctor again?

So, I guess I didn’t blog about it last week.  The visit with the dermatologist went well.  Odd, but well.  It was like hanging out in an old college professors office, but one from the 80’s, with about that much dust, and that old of books lining the...