Glimpses of our Life in Ghana

This was written several weeks ago. I think I feel a little like this many days, like there are little things that stick out from my day and beg to be written down. I just don't take the time to do it very often!  Today we woke up before the sun to prepare for leaving our house.  Today the middle child woke up so happy to be able to spend a day with his daddy! His grin was a mile wide all morning as he walked around with his big boy swagger and talked to Daddy man to man. Days with daddy are few and far between right now.   Today we drove the hour and a half to a city for parts.  Today we bought warm, freshly fried boughfrut at the toll booth from a lady who laughed heartily when Kenny told her he will take her whole dish full. And she was delighted when we actually did purchase five. Today we drove by a parking lot with a rock crusher and multiple dump trucks sitting in it. The smallest boy in the back said, Oh! Oh! Oh! Oh! as if the excitement was too...

In June we hosted five girls. The other four flew home after two weeks and Amy is staying till the beginning of August. Mid July Brian and Crystal Zeiset came for a little over a week. Here are highlights from those visits. I took the girls to Mable's Table for lunch one day. It is the closest thing to fast food we have even though it takes a long time to get food. But with a table like this, who cares? And if the chairs are double stacked, don't worry. It's just to give them extra strength! We took the girls to Kakum Nationl Park to the swinging bridges. It was the first time our children had been there. Austin tried the first bridge but came back and waited with me. I had done it when we visited in October and once was enough for me. Kelsey loved it! This picture isn't very good but it is a moment we will long remember. On the way home from Kakum we stopped along the road at an old sign that said Monkey Reserve. We asked the man sitting on the por...

After a long break, I am finally sitting down to do blogging again. With Brian Zeisets visit and all the daily life things happening, I just didn't get it done. So I guess I will start where I left off and hopefully catch you all up over the next couple of weeks.   We had a wonderful week of VBS. We had considered every thing that could go wrong and were pleasantly surprised at how well things went.   So we started with registration. It took some thinking and planning but eventually we got a good system. The first night there was just a mob of children. And after we signed them up and gave them a wrist band, some of them didn't understand what was happening and wandered off. Someone figured out that if we lay the ropes on the ground and got them to stand on the color rope they were with the day before, it gave some order to the process. We wrote their name and age down and gave them a wrist band the color of the group they were with. Merlin and Bethany were group...