From Grits to Chopsticks

Some of our family members have been faced with tough physical challenges lately.  A week and a half after his return from Tanzania, Stephen passed out at his apartment.  Upon admission to the hospital, his red blood count was determined to be very low (hematocrit below 20).  Nine days later, after receiving 5 transfusions and […]

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A few weeks ago while staying home for the weekend, Timothy claimed that he was awakened early in the morning by a chicken clucking and squawking around on the back porch.  Assuming that he was just suffering from the effects of a few bad meals at the Georgia Tech Cafeteria, we humored him and went […]

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Over the past few weeks, we’ve continued the process of packing and sorting things to clean out the house and prepare it to be occupied by the new residents.  Thankfully, those new residents are good friends with only minimal furniture, so we should be able to leave a number of the heavy items in place […]

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This week, we celebrated our final teenage birthday, with Timothy having his 19th birthday on January 6th.  It has been colder than normal here in Georgia with a dusting of snow last night and a low temperature of 15F.  On Timothy’s birthday, we went for a hike out the back door and down to Lake […]

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Since the Christmas break is now over, we’re jumping into the challenge of trying to get ready to leave Georgia behind. Every time we’ve moved over the past years, we’ve tried to purge unneeded stuff and simplify.  But when you are moving to Asia, you’re faced with an entirely new level of sorting through everything […]

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It was wonderful to have our whole family together at Christmas this year.  With our plans to move to Asia next year, it may be the last chance for a while to get everyone together. Laurie, Jeruid, and Stephen escaped from the Northeast just in time – two feet of snow fell the next day […]

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It’s always great to spend time with family and friends, and during early December, we were able to travel up to PA and DE and make some visits.  Laurie was a gracious hostess as we spent a week at her home in Oxford. While visiting Bob and Karen in DE, we got to sit on […]

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