Archive for August, 2007

moving?

Sunday, August 26th, 2007

We want to move but don’t know what we should do. David would really like to hang onto our house, in other words not sell it. The market is not great for sellers right now. so the option is to rent our house while we go and rent another home. That […]

Elliot’s Discipline

Thursday, August 16th, 2007

Every now and then I peruse my book collection and make a discovery or a find. This week it is a signed copy of Elisabeth Elliot’s Discipline: The Glad Surrender.

Surprisingly, I was drawn to the title, struggling myself with having the discipline of a writer and a follower of Christ. I had […]

Mission Beach

Friday, August 10th, 2007

Yesterday I took the 2 hr drive down to Mission Beach in San Diego to visit my brother. I had received a distrubing email about some activities that he supposedly involved in. It was not easy what I had to speak with him about, but I do feel better having seen where he […]

Becoming Jane

Wednesday, August 8th, 2007

Well, the movie was fun to watch, of course liberties were taken but that was the point. Think of Shakespeare in Love, not as witty. I enjoyed it with a fun group of women. But I woke up sad today because I really did want more of a happy ending. Jane […]

Zambia pics

Tuesday, August 7th, 2007

Kids from Avila orphanage

victoria falls

Me and Irene

A school we visited

Me, Jenn and Shannon

The bridge I was too chicken to bungee jump off of

How the villages look and are organized

Me serving Soya at the village. This was so hot, it burned my fingers a bit.

Men working at the children’s village, taking a break, eating Nshima.

Me […]

writing

Tuesday, August 7th, 2007

This is so hard. I really need time to write, but Aiden is just not the best with playing by himself, so I eek out small moments here and there, stealing time. Tonight I’m going to see Becoming Jane and I hope to be inspiried by a woman’s story who had to hide […]

home

Thursday, August 2nd, 2007

I’m home now from Africa, very happy to be with my family again. If any of you would like, we have a blog from the trip: www.awakenzambia.com I posted the wrong site in my last post.
When I have some time, I will post more here as well.
Today, I’m […]


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