To celebrate the one-week anniversary of our arrival — and use up some aging bananas — I decided to bake a little taste of home this morning. I love to bake, which is why I brought my mixer from home (all 35lbs of it). Of course everything is a bit different here... from the flour and baking … [Read more...]
Easy and Hard
July 30, 2012 by · 9 Comments
I'm not really a big crier, so it wasn't surprising that I made it through pretty much the whole leaving process without tears. Every time I started to cry, I thought about the great adventure in front of us and successfully fought back. This isn't good-bye, I kept telling myself. It's merely … [Read more...]
Bienvenidos a Nicaragua
July 28, 2012 by · Leave a Comment
Well, we made it. :) Tuesday was a very very long travel day. We left our home in MD around 9:30am (after getting only a few hours of sleep Monday night, due to last minute preparations). I think we finally made it to our new home in Nicaragua around 10:30pm Central Time (which would be 12:30am … [Read more...]
Adios
July 24, 2012 by · 2 Comments
Today's the day! We fly out just after 2pm this afternoon, with a layover in Atlanta, finally arriving around 7:30pm local time. (Nicaragua is on Central time, but does not observe daylight savings, so right now it is a two-hour time difference.) Unlike all of our others flights to Nicaragua, these … [Read more...]
My 3-bag challenge (Part 3)
July 21, 2012 by · 1 Comment
I wasn't expecting to write about this topic again (see part 1 and part 2), but the past three weeks have pushed me over the edge. When that happens, posts are written. [Luke 6:45] Moving out of the country really forces you to examine several areas of your life. I knew this journey would teach … [Read more...]
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