THE LAST PAGE (thoughts, reflections & stories) BACKWARDS MATH I’ve mentioned it before, but it bears repeating: we are so proud of our boys and how well they’re doing in both sets of school – Paraguayan and American. Today we finished our year of home-schooling, so they’ll have two weeks of neither set of classes! [...]
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From email of 4 July 2009
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Nov 3, 2008 – “The Last Page”
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ALL IN A DAY’S WORK? It’s now Monday, November 3. (The computer battery didn’t make it for me to finish this on Saturday.) Yesterday, Sunday, Dan: – Buried two animals, Samuel’s pet bird and a newborn puppy that a drunk lady had tossed in our yard a few days ago. – Taught the adults at [...]
3 Oct 2008 “Last Page”: Slimy Gunk
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SLIMY GUNK I hate to admit that I wallowed in self-pity this week. Following a great visit with two missionary families who stayed with us for a “vision-trip week,” I was feeling proud and relieved that I’d fed so many people all week long. As much as I’d enjoyed the cooking, I was [...]
12 Sept 2008 “Last Page”: Sensations of Paraguay
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SENSATIONS OF PARAGUAY Nathan’s creative writing assignment in homeschooling this week involved describing something using all five senses. I thought it would be appropriate to do the same for our return to Paraguay . . . Seeing: The first thing I saw when we walked out of the airport in Asuncion was a stray dog. [...]
Old Kids’ Comments on New Post
Posted in The Last Page on August 6, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I saw that we had shared these comments from the boys back in early June in an email and decided to post them here. So, here are thoughts from Nathan and Samuel from our June-July prayer calendar, repeated here for fun… FROM THE BOYS Nathan, playing with an erector set: “I built a scientifical windmill!” [...]
Vomit, hospitality, and stress
Posted in The Last Page, tagged legos, roads, stress, vomit on July 17, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
THE LAST PAGE (the stories & reflections beyond the basic news) ROAD TRIP REMEMBRANCES Although our big trip was remarkably smooth, there were a few bumps along the way. What’s a month on the road without a couple of good stories to tell!? First was the “what do you mean we need passports to get [...]
