When our first visitor arrived back in October, you can't imagine the excitement we felt! Sure we were thrilled to see a friendly face from home, but oh the STUFF he brought us!!! An entire suitcase filled with all sorts of treasures from home... our favorite snacks and seasonings, some electronics … [Read more...]
Ahhhh… summer camp
February 27, 2013 by · Leave a Comment
This post was originally posted in the spring of 2012, but I wanted to revive it since it's that time of year again... time to think about summer camp! I enjoyed a very Peter Pan type of childhood... well, if Peter Pan lived in the concrete jungle. :) All the neighborhood kids spent endless … [Read more...]
Christmas Slow-Down
December 24, 2012 by · Leave a Comment
We just finished up a 10-day visit with my parents. It was my dad's first trip to Nicaragua, and my mom's second (only because she came in October to help with Corinna's post-op). This was our first chance to show folks from home around Nicaragua, which of course prompted me to see it our time here … [Read more...]
Our Three-Gift Tradition
December 3, 2012 by · 1 Comment
A few weeks ago, my sister-in-law asked me to tell her again about our three-gifts-per-child tradition at Christmas. Her kids are old enough to be infected by a nasty case of the gimmies (gimme, gimme, give me more!), so it's as good a time as any to start reining in the traditional American … [Read more...]
Give Me Eyes to See
October 13, 2012 by · 7 Comments
This has been a pretty traumatic week for us. Up until this week, I have been feeling super great about our life here. It's not perfect, and rarely easy, but I love it. And then the proverbial poo hit the fan on Monday. My daughter was hit in the face by a soccer ball two weeks prior. We had … [Read more...]
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