linear park. Monday, November 1, 2010      

  trick or treat. Sunday, October 31, 2010   This was Judah, Amelie and their cousin Lina’s first time trick or treating.  I’m not sure who had more fun: the grown-ups raiding a thrift store and cutting up cardboard and aluminum foil to make them into three wily pirates, or the kiddos once they learned what the phrase “trick or treat!” produces.   I think these three would have been utterly thrilled with their first little bag of candy, but there were more doorbells to ring and more neighbors to meet.  They loved the chilly evening walk.  They loved being oohed and ahhed over.  They loved telling people what a…

  tioga trip. Saturday, October 30, 2010     Dad, Joe, and I took a mid-week Dude Weekend trip to Tioga in Wellsboro, PA.  We biked, hiked, shot guns, lit fires, set off fireworks, and ate red meat.  It was epic. previous   next    

    This was our moving week.  Thanks to those who helped us by praying, taking things off our hands, caring for our children, making us dinner, and sending emails and texts of encouragement. Yesterday David and I drove to our Waterway apartment 606 one last time.  We did a Goodwill run with my dad’s truck, gathered up our last few things, cleaned bathrooms and kitchen counters and toddler fingerprints off glass. And then, we said good-bye.  One more good-bye in a whole season of good-byes. Now we are more or less settled at my parents’ for this final month in the States.  Tomorrow we say our Lexington Presbyterian and…

  favorite haunt. Saturday, October 23, 2010      

  he says. Thursday, October 21, 2010   David: “Judah, in one month you and Mommy and Amie and me are going to get on a plane and go to South Asia.” Judah: “Okay.” David: “How does that make you feel?” Judah: “Funny.”    

  first fish. Wednesday, October 20, 2010      

  multitude monday, #290-305   Monday, October 18, 2010 fall has finally come to South Carolina an all-by-myself walk along the Gervais St Riverwalk this morning the poetry and romance of a God who thinks up weeping willows our fully potty-trained three-year-old! Judah words: “chicken nugg-let” (chicken nugget), “hot-okter” (helicopter) watching Judah and Amelie and Annie and Lily hug, play, fight, and bond in Chattanooga Amie reaching for her Uncle Jonathan chaotic, late-night Ben and Jerry’s run with Maggie and all four kiddos a safe place to cry at FPCC the clothes closet, and especially the amazing Diane missionaries who are brutally honest and fiercely hopeful Pastor Tim Tinsley new…

We spent the past week in Chattanooga, TN, for a supporting church’s missions conference. This is an event we have had marked on our calendar all year, and I can’t believe it is come and gone already. I also can’t believe how perfectly God’s timing fits our needs. This conference – this week away in Chattanooga – happened right before our move out of our apartment, and with our November departure imminent.  A busy time for us. But oh, how we needed this week – and we didn’t even know it.  We fell in love with this town and this church. God ministered to us all week long … in…

  state capital. Thursday, October 14, 2010