Glimpses of our Life in Ghana

Here are some random pictures from our past month. Kelsey and neighbor children reading together. They read quite well. She helped them with the bigger words. We had a sand box made for the boys. It gets well used and does such a good job of entertaining that the amount of sand drug into my house even seems worthwhile. Here three boys came over and were helping make tunnels and hills. The first days we had our dog, the neighbor children were all terrified of her. Slowly they have overcome their fear. This picture was the first day the small boy in the front didn't have to cry over her. He comes almost every afternoon, but would either play inside or on the porch with her penned off. One rainy morning the boys colored while I sewed. Brent fell asleep and then we needed to leave for the shop. He actually slept over all the bumps on the way there! We stopped at a carpenters shop one day. I was amused by their rocking horses! Kelsey lik...

I am thankful for all this laundry. It means my loved ones are at home. Wash day starts with Kelsey or I sorting laundry in the hall. Brent and Austin usually gather the wash tubs and buckets for when Mama Ese arrives. Brent's favorite job is to carry her stool back to her! We also get her soap for her. She uses a powdered laundry detergent, a liquid antiseptic and a bar of key soap. She does the wash in our back hall way. It is close to the water and close to outside where she dumps her water after she is finished. She uses the two red buckets above to carry her water to the washtubs. I have found these tubs to be very handy! They make perfect wash baskets and bathtubs! The first one she scrubs everything and then wrings it out and puts it in the next tub. The next one everything gets another scrubbing.   The last tub is to rinse and then everything gets wrung out very hard. Occasionally I help with this step. But her hands are much stronger and faster th...

The TaTa The week had been exhausting. Physically and emotionally. Now we were on our way home from market, glad to have an open evening. It was almost past supper time already but I knew supper and bed was all that needed to happen tonight yet, so it would work out. The children were tired and grouchy. And very hungry!! We finally arrived home only to discover we didn't have keys.     We have two sets of keys. One on our truck key and one set in Kenny's backpack. About two weeks ago we locked ourselves out and had to break the padlock. So we placed keys strategically and determined not to let it happen again. We also bought extra padlocks just in case.    Someone had needed our truck so we were driving the TaTa (a Jeep like vehicle that looks like (in Kenny's words) it was made for chasing elephants.) As we pulled up to our house Kenny said, I guess we don't have keys! I had thought this through earlier and said, you have the set in your backpack. We hunt...