So, I don’t usually write birth stories. But I thought I would share with you some of the interesting parts of having a baby here in France. Some things I can compare, and some I can’t. I love modern medicine and technology, and for both my other pregnancies and deliveries, I was happiest attached to as… Continue reading Evangeline
Thanksgiving. Not the day, but the prayers of. For me, lately, its been hard to be thankful, so I’m going to use this blog to share the good, the bad, and the ugly. To be thankful in all circumstances, that is what we are called to do. In all honesty, we are so very blessed… Continue reading Thanksgiving in February
We were all sitting around my living room. Jessica was playing the guitar, and we were ten ladies singing ‘Be thou my vision’. For a moment I wanted to take an instagram photo, the one where the lyrics are in focus, but all the singing ladies are blurred out. So I could use it for… Continue reading Grace and Privilege
Back in, say, February, (or maybe March), I looked at one of my classmates and said this sentence: ‘I swear that I used to be a functioning adult. Seriously, they even let me be in charge of people at work. What happened?’ What happened? Like the Lady with the cockney accent so aptly put as she… Continue reading ‘I used to be a functioning adult’
So, we’ve been a little behind with the blogging. Sorry about that. April was when our scheduled Spring vacation was, and at the start Chris’ mom came to visit, then we had a team retreat, and we had some friends come to visit at the end. So in between studying and getting some rest in, we were… Continue reading God’s Perfect Timing
So what is like learning a Language? Well, we go to school from 8:30-11:30 and 1:30-4:30, Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday. For the lunch breaks, we pick up both kids, go home, make lunch, and then bring them back. Since school days are intense, we usually use Wednesday to have family time, and do some review and… Continue reading Language Learning
So we’ve been here five weeks, and we are the first region of France to start the winter vacations, which began today. These are scheduled so that all of the regions don’t go skiing at the same time. This early break is a blessing, but also a bit of a burden. We have felt like… Continue reading The Kids
Our school goes on two field trips a year, one in October, to a cheese factory, and one in February to a ski resort in the Alps. They rent a bus, work out pretty amazing deals on renting ski equipment, and even set-up kiddy class training, all at missionary-budget rates. The trip was in a… Continue reading A spectacle of incompetence
I think because it’s January, and there are these movie-set mountains visible from every window and door of our house, which contains these two giant armoires, that this line keeps popping into my head. It’s January, so Christmas is about as far away as it can get, and right this moment, it’s been snowing for… Continue reading Always winter, never Christmas, except not really
After a wonderful Christmas time with our family, and what seemed like endless days of packing all the Christmas presents we weren’t supposed to get, the day came for us to leave. My mother drove up to Florida and our pastor met us at the airport to join our sending off team. There were prayers… Continue reading The First Days
The Brock Family in France 