Decorating contest
A few days ago we were invited to be a part of a jury to judge the kids classrooms at school. They had a Christmas decorating contest. They all worked very hard to decorate their classrooms as well as they could. We were very honored to be asked to come be a part of the [...]
Read onVente!
So sorry the posts have been few and far between lately! But we have been kinda busy… apparently preparing for a huge life change takes a lot of time. Haha. We have been preparing ourselves mentally as well as physically. We have a lot of things to do before we leave Senegal. We have started [...]
Read onReflections from the kitchen sink…
This evening I realized that I had a huge pile of dishes that needed to be washed. So after dinner I cleaned up the kitchen and got started on the looming pile. While I worked away at the dishes Norm gave the kids a bath, put them to bed, cleaned up the dining room and [...]
Read onDust mites! Be gone!
Many of you know about my severe allergies here in Senegal, and that we have been wanting to get a dryer to help with these terrible allergies. I have very bad allergies to dust mites. And we live in a VERY dusty part of the world… very dirty dust none the less! We have been [...]
Read onCanadian Thanksgiving
This year we hosted a big Canadian Thanksgiving bash at our apartment. We managed to cram 46 or so people into our living room! =) It was a bit of a challenge but it worked out well. Here in Senegal we try to invite all the Canadian missionaries to a Thanksgiving celebration each year. Each [...]
Read onReal first day of school
Today was the day! They actually started school. I definitely got a better first day of school picture today than yesterday. =) The boys were both a little nervous, yet they were in a familiar place. But it was a little confusing to Emmaus since he is in a new room with new teachers. He [...]
Read onFaux first day of school!
We have excitedly looking forward to today for a while. Today was the first day of school. The kids were really excited to see some of their friends again. So this morning we woke up at 6:45, got ready and piled out the door with all of the supplies for the year. Everyone was a [...]
Read on3 survivors!
Yep! Canaan, Emmaus and I are survivors! We made the 36 hour journey back home to Dakar. And on top of that we have survived 40 hours worth of power outages since we have been home! We are surviving the extreme heat and humidity. We have also survived a record wind/rain storm the day after [...]
Read onGrocery shopping!
Today I went grocery shopping for the first time since coming back to the States. I had avoided it thus far. I was sure that I would be so overwhelmed. So many choices… so many wonderful foods that we miss. Today I wanted to get some sweet potatoes for dinner. So I decided to run [...]
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