Daily Archives: July 27, 2013

Word from Kaia’s Country

Posted on by

If you look over at my sidebar, you’ll see a beautiful little girl named Kaia. She is an orphan and her adoptive family just traveled to meet her for the first time. I didn’t know if I’d hear from her adoptive mom so I was really happy to get the following email today:

We met her yesterday & had our 2nd visit today. She is wonderful. She is so sweet & smart. Even after our second visit she started picking up on a few English words! She has a speech delay, so we may have to get some therapy for that. The level of Hep C has become lower in the past couple of years. She already considers our son as her brother & has called us mama & papa a couple of times. We cannot wait to get her home!!!

Woohooooo!!!!

Things I’ve Learned from VBS

Posted on by

Jon is teaching VBS tomorrow/today (I forgot to write something for Friday and it’s still Friday in Alaska and Hawaii so cut me some slack!) so I decided to share the things I’ve learned from teaching and helping with VBS in the last few years.

-Froot Loops stick to your ears if you lick them.

-Never ask kids if they have questions. It never ends well.

-The batteries in your digital camera will die the second you need to take a series of pictures for the end of day Powerpoint display.

-Singing silly songs is a lovely way to deal with your grief after sitting with a family whose member has just died.

-You can recall a huge amount of Scripture if it has been part of a silly song.

-There is nothing like chicken-dancing after having a tough day at work.