New Friends

Polly and the girls are getting along so well. They love having and older sister and she is sweet to play with them whenever she doesn't have too much homework. School is hard for her ... she is very smart, but of course, has to translate everything so it takes longer to do the work.

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Melody doesn't understand because the first two weeks Polly was here she had lots of time to play and now "all she thinks about is homework." I told Melody she will understand when she gets older.

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There is never a dull moment at our house and we are having a fun time learning to be a family. There is much we can learn from each other and I am excited to see what God has in store for us over the next months.

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Tony is a bit outnumbered, but he is used to that. And we do have another Thai studend that comes to visit us often and help balance out the house. His name is Champ.

A buding artist

Is this cute, or what?
I asked Melody to tell me about her picture…

“It is a picture of God watching over us.”
“See, there is Daddy, you, Polly, me and Selah”

“What is this?” I ask, pointing to the floating person

“That’s God laying on a cloud with a pillow.”

“Oh...and God is wearing a dress?”

“Well yes, in all the pictures in the Bible, they are wearing dresses.”

Of course, I should have known.

Family Addition

We have a new princess at our house. Her name is Polly and she is an exchange student from Thailand who will be staying with us for the school year. It is fun to have a teen-ager in our home again. She is very sweet and the girls have adopted her as "big sister" already. We look forward to teaching her things about America and getting to learn about Thailand. Tony has already began to teach her things like "we'll cross that bridge when we get to it", "we are just picking on you", etc... We didn't realize how often we say things that cannot be translated literally - they just don't make sense unless you know the cultural context. So it a great learning experience for all of us.

Happy Anniversary!

Wow! Look how young we were!

That was 18 years ago.

And we really had no idea what we were getting into.

We have learned a lot over the years, and as I think back about all the places we have lived and the weird things we have gone thru... I am thankful to have such an adoring husband.

And it blesses me to remember how we have grown in our relationship to each other and to God. Our commitment to Him has helped us stay true to our commitment to each other.

Wow! Daddy's strong!

They sure do love their Daddy and often argue over whose turn it is for him to carry them... well this day he got them both. And they thought it was great! Us girls sure are blessed to have such a wonderful, caring, playful Daddy & Hubby.

Blessings

God answered our prayers about what to do in the girls room and provided us a free bed. They are very excited about it and it gives them more space in their room to play. Thank You, God!

Amazing

Selah is learning so many new words and suprises us often with things we didn't know that she knew. This is her "that's amazing" face.

Of course we also have to be careful what we say because she repeats everything too. Melody keeps asking me to make Selah stop copying her ... and I say "get used to it, that's what little sisters do"