Today’s sermon.

It is somewhat serendipitous that on a day when I think my patience is paper-thin the message of today’s sermon at church was one of simplicity… patience…what it means to wait on God.
I just had to look up and mumble… ‘Ok, I get it.’

Hollidazzle (or duzzle) parade.

On Friday after I finished at work, we went downtown to watch the Hollidazzle parade.  The Hollidazzle parade is a parade of floats and people dazzled with Christmas lights that starts the weekend after Thanksgiving and runs every night (Thursday, Friday, Saturday) until Christmas in Minneapolis.  We have lived here for now four years and [...]

Happy Thanksgiving.

 
We actually spent Thanksgiving this year at home… just the two of us.  I was on call that day this year (of which I then had to go in to work, as it seems anytime ‘I’ am on-call I always get called in), and Friday and Saturday (again, got called in to work those days [...]

Getting closer.

I now know there there is a series of about three events that need to take place for our Giving and Receiving ceremony to be scheduled.  I have received word that step one has been completed.  So, I am holding on to optimism here… and still holding out hope we will be there by Christmas. [...]

Protected: Happy Birthday.

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To Elizabeth from Grandma

 

 

 
I would also like to say thank-you to those who have sent little packages our way.  It is such a fun moment when I pull in my driveway and see boxes sitting on my doorstep.  It kind of feels like I’m having a baby shower!  With all my frustrations lately in regards to having to [...]

Question or Blond moment

 
Something just occurred to me.  How am I suppose to wash and sanitize bottles in Vietnam if we are not supposed to drink the water?
Is this a real question or am I really just having a blond moment and cannot figure this one out?

Change has come… finally.

How can this picture not make you feel happy?
 

Protected: Two steps forward, but always one step back.

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