Beautiful Calling

Family Pictures May 2007 My childhood was amazing; growing up with Grampa was such a privilege. From Rock critters to garbage runs to Reddy fox stories; life was good and always full of excitement. Last year I asked for prayer for him and shortly thereafter, he went home to be with the Lord. The week [...]

Chloe and her new friend, Blessing We went to a local church on Sunday. The service was in French and the singing was in the local language. The music was indescribable. Singing only, no instruments. Perfect harmony. It was beautiful and almost brought tears to my eyes. The church was a three walled structure with [...]

  We arrived in Congo just after 6am in the morning. The airport is different than any I’ve been in before. Different describes pretty much everything so far. I’m still taking in and processing everything I’ve seen thus far. In some ways, it is what I thought and in others, it took me off guard. [...]

  Our last days of Paris are busy and full of fun for the littles. Daddy headed to a few museums and mommy and the littles and I headed to the Menagerie, the oldest zoo in Pairs. It’s a very small zoo in the middle of a beautiful park. We raced around examining rocks, chasing [...]

View Full Album The past several days have been filled with adventure, good eating, naps and a lot of walking! I would like to remind everyone that with limited internet access, I am not answering emails until I return unless it is urgent. Also, the full size photos are not working right now. I’ll fix [...]

View Full Album Picture 1 Chloe in the Ergo, John in the hotsling after a very long day. (no idea what that face is about!) Picture 2 Chloe and John looking for our place. Picture 3 Chloe and her very red ice cream and ruby-red lips. The Flight (long story short): if you read the [...]

View Full Album   My home is a disaster. I wish this post was a “before and after” which would mean it was a mess but now it is clean; alas, that is not the case. As I sit here eating a chocolate cupcake and blogging, I gaze around forlornly. Sunday was a hard day; [...]

Source Dear Air France, I’d like to make a suggestion; use your head and don’t change the seat reservation for a three year old. She’s probably sitting in that seat for a reason; she’s with her parents. I fly out on Friday May 21st; I am livid that my 3 year old daughter is not [...]

View Full Album Routine at our house has flown out the window. The little ones had mild symptoms from their Typhoid and Yellow Fever shots (for Africa), then they caught bad colds and we dealt with that for a week and then last week they had a stomach bug complete with vomiting and diarrhea. This [...]

Source It’s only ten more sleeps until we take off. Where are we going you ask? Oh, I’m glad you asked! We’re going to Africa! We fly out of Toronto and into Paris, France where we will stay for a week. We were in Paris on our honeymoon and now, five years later, we’re heading [...]