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Merry Christmas
Merry Christmas friends and family! Thanks for all your support during this year. We have transitioned from Haiti back to the states. Currently seeing where our future holds. We have both been involved with Haiti – more to come on that front in the next post. We were reminiscing of last year and the year before…
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My Teeth are Falling Out
Updates! We have some baby updates and an ultrasound picture, finished our travels with planes/trains/automobiles, (oh, yea) and encountered a drug bust along the way… — Pulling my head up off my pillow, I put my hands to my teeth. What a realistic dream! I truly thought my front teeth had just fallen out! This…
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Traveling to WI, MN, SD, WA, CO!? Oops!
Well well well… I think we are finally relaxing a bit (at least as I begin to type out this post – might be different by the time I am done). You see, we had planned some visits when being back but didn’t realize what that all really entailed. It was kind of like,…
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Used to Seeing… Now Seeing…
We have landed safely in the land of a-m-a-z-i-n-g-n-e-s-s! Don’t get me wrong. I love Haiti and always will! Dodging traffic or riding the motorcycle was always an adventure. It’s kind of like a video game driving around Port Au Prince. You just don’t get a +1 life-up or a redo :-D. As long as…
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Closing Chapter – After 2 Years in Haiti
It’s the time I have been dreading. So to just rip off the band-aid: We are leaving Haiti at the end of July. It’s so hard to figure out how to explain that we are leaving Haiti. It’s difficult to even know what to write. Delete, delete, delete. Everything I write seems to be awkward or…
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Kicking and Screaming
Haiti is a totally unpredictable place, and you never know what will happen in a day. We constantly have guests who freak out when plans change, or their driver arrives late, or the toilets won’t flush immediately due to water pressure. I get a bit too much pleasure telling them to calm down, this is…
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Surprise!
If you know Ryan or me very well, you’d know that we’re not the first people to want to hold someone else’s baby at a gathering, or to volunteer for nursery duty at church. I’ve always said that I’m either having zero kids or four, leaning more towards zero. In Haiti, literally everywhere you go, when…
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3 Mind-Blowing Learnings About Haitians
These are some points I recently read in African Friends and Money Matters by David Maranz. The 3 bullet points are a summary of about 10 pages. I also replaced African with Haitian since we are in the mindset of Haiti. The Haitians here today were originally brought over as slaves from Africa and you…
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Melissa’s Parents Visit Haiti
Go back in time a couple weeks… We had Melissa’s parents here with us. ————— Before we went OUT of Port we rode IN Port 😀 Not a typical adventure for most visitors but we went on a motorcycle ride to the Heartline property. On the way we stopped at a small market and bought…
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Break-in Update
What a week! We had Melissa’s parents here this last week. We are thankful that months prior to the break-in, Melissa’s parents had scheduled to come this last week. They came at a time which helped us take our mind off of the recent break-in. We were so grateful for all of your prayers, words…