“What are you guys doing today?” “Ummm… nothing??? Yes! Nothing!! This is the first Saturday in a long time that we are doing… nothing!!” That was the conversation we had with Hannah’s parents approximately an hour before our “nothing” turned into disgorging the guest room of its guestroomy-ness and turning it into daily usable space. […]
January 26 is Australia Day and we celebrate every year. Our first Australia Day was less than a month before Willa was born when Ray was just shy of two. We were living with Australians waiting for Beanie to arrive and learning what we could of their culture. Throwing flip-flops and putting fake tattoos of […]
We made our way to Ukarumpa bumping along the jungle road with cockatoos flying over the truck, down into the valley and through the river where the bridge has been out for… two?… years, and up into the cool mountains of the highlands, all while listening to Treasure Island and imagining PNG as that very […]
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster and treat those two imposters just the same….” (excerpt from “If” by Rudyard Kipling) Three girls, one room. Though it can be challenging for Ray and Willa at night when Gemma struggles endlessly to settle down, they have worked out their own cozy corners. When I saw […]
In the last post I wrote about the joys of Jolabokaflod. This time I’m writing about the joys of my new “book meetings” with Ray as we kick off her 3rd Grade year. She is making the transition in school from learning to read to reading to learn, and so she has many books to […]
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