A bunch of randomness......

My mind is not functioning right now at it's fullest level, but I just wanted to jot down a few things so I will always remember these small glimpses into this season of our lives.


* We have some mango trees in our backyard that our producing a ton of mangos right now. So much that our workers take some home with them every day, I have been chopping up and freezing a bunch for smoothies, the girls eat them like crazy, and our friends come over and fill up buckets to bring home with them. Even as I am typing I can hear some of the mangos dropping onto the ground.

*One of our biggest goals for the new year is to be much better at communicating with our supporters at home. We have set the goal of getting a newsletter out every six weeks, and so far are sticking to it! :)

*We are gearing up for a three day conference in an amazing church in the village this weekend. It is going to be incredible, we are so excited to see what God has in store!

*Next month will mark our one year of moving to Tanzania. This is very odd to me as some days it feels like we have been here ten years, and other days it feels like I should wake up back in Iowa. The days of just packing the kids in the car and driving to Target seem like a lifetime ago.

*My mother-in-law, father-in-law, and sister-in-law will be here in less than a month!!! We are so excited for them to be here!!!

*Being an adult is hard sometimes, and sometimes I make mistakes. I am so thankful we are surrounded by such amazing, loving people who are full of God's grace.

*Tomorrow is one week with our precious Kamila Love. Kamila means "perfect" and we thought the name "perfect love" was just right for her. Whenever I say her name I am reminded of the Bible speaking about perfect love casting out all fear. She is such a fun, sweet, giggly baby.

*Everyone is asking us how Harper Praise is handling not being the baby anymore. She is doing incredible. It is as though she literally grew up over night once we got Kamila. She loves her role of big sister and tells us often that she is a big kid now. Harper is talking like crazy and so full of life and love.

*Last night at two in the morning I was up with Kamila. I had just fed her and had her laying on our bed, changing her diaper. I had just put a good amount of diaper cream on my hand and the power went out. When the power goes out here it is pitch black, like throw your senses off for a minute dark. I couldn't grab a flashlight b/c I had a hand full of diaper rash cream, luckily Brian was quick on his feet to action.

*We have two toilets in our house. The one nearest our room we cannot use at night because it becomes overtaken my massively huge ants. A couple of nights ago I counted twenty of them in there. Some times it catches me off guard that this is normal to me now. :)

*Today at school Sophee's teacher asked all the kids what the hardest part about being a kid is. Her response was "keeping the mosquitos away from her new baby sister." Poor girl, we are working her too hard obviously. :)