It's About Time

Wow! After a fun start with the blogging thing, it has been over a month since that last entry. So yeah, those birthday crates finally made their way to their destination... some some 12 days later and actually only a week after the day we were told they would arrive. I suppose that was really good considering it was an international delivery. We have missionary friends who left 4 years ago and have never received some things they had shipped.

The luggage arrived and they moved into the house that was being readied for them, also within 12 days of when move-in was first expected. Tim says everything takes longer in a third world country, so you just wait and enjoy the experience. A good challenge and a good goal.... for all of us, third world or not!

Birthday Blessings

It was a good day! Tim's birthday, last luggage on the way, phone calls and connections made, prayers offered, songs sung, tears shed and pages read. I was awakened early enough to get up and read at 5 AM a passage Tim had said he would be sharing with someone at 11 AM. there...so as I sat to be reading at the same time he was sharing and opened my Bible to the passage he had planned, there was a prayer card for Tim and Kate... on a page I had written a note last year about them giving up their jobs and going. WoW,GoD, Huh? The courier came to pick up the last crates to go, so Happy Birthday, guys! We went to church and sang Happy Birthday to Tim and passed out colorful bracelets as reminders to pray for West Africa! It was a good day here and there!

Brave New World

Well, it is definitely a new world and I am being brave to tackle this blog stuff...thanks to you techni-savvy and helpful, patient, understanding kidos. It's great and fun and here we go! Love to you all in one big world made not so big with all these connections, two states at the moment, two continents, three locations, four bodies and wonderful hearts, and well... for all the twelve (at least) wonderful days of Christmas we just shared. Looking forward to our transatlantic communication and as close as the phone/skype/web connections!

My kiddos

The Fam