June/July SunFun
Prayer and Praises
If you didn’t notice, the website got an upgrade, and I made a new logo:). As I learn how to do things better at work, I sometimes remember to go back and try my new skills on my own things as well.
It has been a while. Not sorry about it, but I am wanting to catch up. June was lovely, with sunshine and unwinding from a long school year. The girls started the summer reading program, and we switched into our schedule without too much time on screens. I really love garage sales, especially now that Goodwill put all the other thrift stores out of business and sometimes is just too darn expensive now.
Sofia and Jessica enjoyed VBS with me at BRCC, where they were helping raise money for some ministries in Brazil, and then the time flew by and I was on my way to Brazil. Honestly, that is going to be a different post. I don’t have the videos done yet, but I did write a blog, which I will link below. The neighbor’s tree fell across our yard (and as of August 12th, is still there), but Caid kept the girls and my plants alive while I was gone, and they all had a good time together (not sure about the plants).
We did a quick turn around and left two days later for Connecticut, to visit Caid’s family, which was a wonderful time. NYC is always super fun and memorable, and for $40 each, the girls had better remember going to the Color Factory. Caid went to teacher training the day after we got back, and then the last day of July the girls started school (more on that in August! Summer was a blast, and now it will take most of August to get everything back onto schedule.
Interweb Reads
Me stuff: new podcast episode, and About Brazil Trip
So the documentary Shiny Happy People came out, and I wrote two blogs (are my eyes shiny enough? and pieces of IBLP/ATI )about it, and I was really grateful for so many conversations and encouragments from my community: THANK YOU!
Christian stuff: Amazon’s ‘Shiny Happy People’ has lessons to teach, if we’re willing to listen (The Gospel Coalition), Bless our (parenting) souls (Kristen Welch), I love good deals but loathe the price (Amy Medina)
Missionary Stuff: “Bring a Big Knife to School” Day (The Smart Set), How to sustain Yourself spiritually while living overseas (A Life Overseas), When saying goodbye again is too much (A Life Overseas), A letter to my sending churches (A Life Overseas), 7 Principles for ethical photography as a global citizen (A Life Overseas), A Letter to my missionary Grandsons (A Life Overseas), The untold stories of returned missionaries (A Life Overseas), I hate moving (A Life Overseas)
All the feels for all the things missionary as I was getting ready to go to Brazil, in Brazil, and coming back. Whew.
Other stuff: When Joy is the Center of a School Community (Cortney Martin), In defense of many tears (the Dispatch) connected with this one: Men are lost. Here’s a map out of the wilderness (The Washington Post)