For Today...Monday, July 6, 2009
Outside my window...sun rising over the Pacific, the sky blazing in scarlet and reflecting in the clouds making everything in the house glow (I never get tired of the sunrises here).
I am thinking...how good God is to give us breezy sunny days and cool nights with rain to fill up the tanks and water the gardens, anybody wanna visit?
From the learning rooms...switching composers from Charles Ives to Igor Stravinsky, History - WWI, Sarah - using cause & effect in writing, multiplying & dividing decimals, Benjamin - creating a travel journal, addition & subtraction of compound units of length, Olivia - studying similies, numbers to 40, Katherine - beginning to learn her shapes with play dough & cookie cutters, lacing cards, and painting over white crayon shapes, Science - static electricity experiments and light bulb experiments
I am thankful for...how well Olivia's face has healed
From the kitchen...leftovers (tuna salad) from all of the fish I bought at market this weekend and the fish and lelenga that two different neighbors brought yesterday
I am wearing...denim sleeveless jumper, Olivia love the pockets because she can sort the clothespins by color and stick them in my pockets when we are hanging clothes outside
I am reading..."Same Kind of Different as Me: A Modern-Day Slave, and International Art Dealer, and the Unlikely Woman Who Bound Them Together" by Ron Hall & Denver Moore (break out the tissues)
I am hoping...and praying that we will be good neighbors, that we will manage our resources (food and money) well as many people have begun to ask us for things, and that we will have insight into the way our neighbors think
I am creating...the beginnings of friendships!
I am hearing...Katherine's little feet padding down the hall as she searches for her Daddy (she's an early riser), Aaron in the kitchen as he makes the coffee, the bell calling everybody to morning prayer
Around the house..getting ready to varnish the floors, the chief, Leonard, continuing to work to finish the beautiful porch rail
One of my favorite things...snaggletooth kids (update - Olivia lost another tooth today, that tooth has been hangin' around for weeks, but she dropped it in the coral gravel under the house and can't find it)
A few plans for the rest of the week...making more play dough with Olivia (the last batch we colored green and scented with wintergreen - it's lovely), transplanting the chinese cabbage and tomatoes to the southern part of the yard, preparing a new section (hard work with the pickax again) on the northern part to plant more obikola (cassava) and umalau, planting more melon and papaya (the first planting didn't grow) today, sunning the mattresses and pillows, celebrating Solomon Island Independence Day tomorrow
Outside my window...sun rising over the Pacific, the sky blazing in scarlet and reflecting in the clouds making everything in the house glow (I never get tired of the sunrises here).
I am thinking...how good God is to give us breezy sunny days and cool nights with rain to fill up the tanks and water the gardens, anybody wanna visit?
From the learning rooms...switching composers from Charles Ives to Igor Stravinsky, History - WWI, Sarah - using cause & effect in writing, multiplying & dividing decimals, Benjamin - creating a travel journal, addition & subtraction of compound units of length, Olivia - studying similies, numbers to 40, Katherine - beginning to learn her shapes with play dough & cookie cutters, lacing cards, and painting over white crayon shapes, Science - static electricity experiments and light bulb experiments
I am thankful for...how well Olivia's face has healed
From the kitchen...leftovers (tuna salad) from all of the fish I bought at market this weekend and the fish and lelenga that two different neighbors brought yesterday
I am wearing...denim sleeveless jumper, Olivia love the pockets because she can sort the clothespins by color and stick them in my pockets when we are hanging clothes outside
I am reading..."Same Kind of Different as Me: A Modern-Day Slave, and International Art Dealer, and the Unlikely Woman Who Bound Them Together" by Ron Hall & Denver Moore (break out the tissues)
I am hoping...and praying that we will be good neighbors, that we will manage our resources (food and money) well as many people have begun to ask us for things, and that we will have insight into the way our neighbors think
I am creating...the beginnings of friendships!
I am hearing...Katherine's little feet padding down the hall as she searches for her Daddy (she's an early riser), Aaron in the kitchen as he makes the coffee, the bell calling everybody to morning prayer
Around the house..getting ready to varnish the floors, the chief, Leonard, continuing to work to finish the beautiful porch rail
One of my favorite things...snaggletooth kids (update - Olivia lost another tooth today, that tooth has been hangin' around for weeks, but she dropped it in the coral gravel under the house and can't find it)
1 comment:
I love reading the blog entries even though they are days and days old. I cannot read even one without tears these days. Not sad, just overcome with the emotion of hearing about your daily life and catching the joy in your words.
So happy to hear that Olivia's face is healing well. I know Benjamin's foot is too, but a face is....God is so good. He is answering prayers all the time.
We are planning to come, but I am having difficulty making the reservations...I cannot book the flights out of country.
We will talk about that when you are back in Honiara. It looks like April.
Love you all
Nahna
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