Glimpses of our Life in Ghana

                            My friend stepped inside the house and immediately removed her wig. “Today it is very hot!” she announced. Scratching and fanning her short hair, she laid the wig aside.   “Then why would you wear a wig?” I asked.   “If I don’t, people will mock me!” she exclaimed. “When I am in my house, I don’t need it. But if I go somewhere, you need to be proper and wear a wig.”   In this culture it is the normal to see a woman with long braids one week, short the next, and long straight hair the next. Extensions and wigs are the accepted way to wear your hair. If you just leave it short, you are most likely too poor to have your hair dressed properly and that is a shame. All school age girls keep their hair cut, so it is the expected thing for a girl.    “I don’t go outside much,” another friend told me. “I just stay in the house and watch TV.”    “Why?” I w...

      In February we had 10 days with no visitors. We managed to get school done and just live for a bit. At the tail end of that stretch, Kenny's nephew died. He was born with Trisomy 13 so we knew this would happen sometime and had planned out how we would handle it. Kenny bought a ticket and flew to the US the next day. My aunt and a friend arrived the same day and with Amanda still being with us yet, we had a house of ladies! It kept me busy which was good, but I was still very ready to have my husband back. I was glad he could go and be with his family, but it was hard to stay behind. On February 20th, the three ladies at our house left and we had to get used to living with just our family again. We enjoy each and every one of our visitors but sometimes you just need time to live! We stopped to see Lordina the beginning of February. We got a tour of the school and were very pleased with what we saw. I loved this Bible verse in this school of handicap children that ar...