39 Years Young! (Back in March)

Colt made me this sign for my birthday. We were having dinner with all the missionaries and volunteers that night. What a sweet boy! Joel gave me a day off as a gift! :)

Kick Ball

Colt and Joel have been trying to teach some of the Ghanian boys how to play a few American sports, like kick ball. This photo was also from February. Updates slowly coming!

This photo was from Hollie Aycock's visit in February. She is a missionary in Kenya with Bud and Kimberly Huffman. She is from San Angelo and is a nurse. She works with an orphanage there in Kenya. We loved our time with her.

A Day in the Life...

I've been wanting to let you know what our days look like. Joel has clinic on M, W, and F. T and Th are his surgery days. He starts rounds about 7:30 a.m. or so. Colt and I start school at the school house between 8:30 and 9 a.m. We leave Abigail at the house with our worker, Baby. The Hewitt children also do school at the school house with their teacher, Angela. Colt and I work on Scripture memory, Bible, Reading, Lang. Arts, Math, etc. Then at 11:30 Angela teaches both Colt and Benton Hewitt science. Then at 12 I teach both boys an elementary version of American History. History can be really fun for boys with all of those battles to study! We finish around 12:30 and head to the house for lunch.

Throughout the day, sellers come to either our door at home or our school house door wanting to sell their produce. It is convenient when they bring good quality items and we don't have to go into town to purchase these foods. However, their timing is not always good. Some will come as early as 6 a.m. We have many various people come to our door in the course of a week. Just recently I finished making a curtain cover for the glass doors in the front. This offers us a little more privacy and peace of mind. Interestingly enough, we don't seem to have as many people coming to our porch now that you can't see into our house!

Sometimes Joel and Colt do PE together during Joel's morning hospital break. Then, Joel joins us later at home for lunch. (No food or drinking water available at the hospital.) In the afternoons, Colt will do various school activities for a short time, depending on the day. Typing, music, art, and PE. We get to play with Abigail until her nap time at 3 pm. She will sleep until 5:30 or 6 pm. Then she's still ready for bed around 8:30 pm. (She gave up her morning nap some months ago. This seems to be the combination that works for her now.)

Then we eat dinner around 6:30 pm most nights. Not much variance on evening activities, for the most part. I enjoy having folks over for dinner here and there. We thank you for your continued prayers as we seek the Lord and what ministries He has here for us.

Random Thoughts

I know it's been awhile since I've posted-quite a few weeks, actually. It's been really hot and it doesn't take much for me to have no energy left for anything not "urgent." I'm 22 weeks pregnant now. We are still unsure of the baby's gender right now. Abigail points to all of our tummies and says "Baby!" I have hopes soon of posting more recipes and even a video on here. Colt and I are ready for school to be out, though we still have a way to go. I'm looking at school curriculum for next year. I did a lot of baking over the weekend and we had a nice outing yesterday with several missionary families in the area. It's time to head home for lunch now, so I'll need to close. Just wanted you all to know we are alive and well!