People often ask us, "What does a normal day look like for your family?" Today, I started school with the kids around eight o'clock as Aaron left to go pick up a family from the village. Their language group is on Guadalcanal, so instead of taking a ship, they can ride in a truck. But they also have to ford rushing rivers during this very rainy season.
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Sarah made a very cute chicken pot pie with heart-shaped biscuits on top to welcome them back to Honiara with a good lunch (yay for "no math Fridays" for Sarah). After we enjoyed cookies and fellowship, I headed over for an afternoon of committee meetings while Aaron tagged and finished up school with the kids. While I was plugging away remembering how to input the books from the Educational Research Center into the computer (which also included drinking coffee, munching on snacks, & spending time with my colleagues), Aaron left to take Caroline down to the wharf to catch her ship to return to her village. We both returned home around five o'clock. No day is ever the same for us here in the Solomon Islands, and we love the little mundane things that make up our "normal" days.
Sarah made a very cute chicken pot pie with heart-shaped biscuits on top to welcome them back to Honiara with a good lunch (yay for "no math Fridays" for Sarah). After we enjoyed cookies and fellowship, I headed over for an afternoon of committee meetings while Aaron tagged and finished up school with the kids. While I was plugging away remembering how to input the books from the Educational Research Center into the computer (which also included drinking coffee, munching on snacks, & spending time with my colleagues), Aaron left to take Caroline down to the wharf to catch her ship to return to her village. We both returned home around five o'clock. No day is ever the same for us here in the Solomon Islands, and we love the little mundane things that make up our "normal" days.
3 comments:
So I have a question. The picture here looks very snakey. Do you have snakes to worry about?
Your days sound enjoyable, purposeful and full of productive work.
Our village doesn't have TOO many snakes, we usually find them when we are cleaning up overgrown areas. I can ask around, though, and find out what the other translation teams experience.
I'm just popping in to check out your blog - Megan Van Andel is my daughter and she mentioned that you update this often and keep a running narrative of life there in the SI. It is so fun to see pictures of their community (and spy one of her, too) . Your homeschool days sound a lot like the years Megan and her siblings were home and we would "fit school" in around life, a farm and ministry activities. May the Lord bless your work there!
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