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crustless mini-quiches and a community kitchen
Today on the continuing saga of the family potluck we'll take a look at what cooking something looks like when you live on ship and have a two and a half month old baby. (Hint: it's not exactly the...
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This will be the first in a series of posts in which I answer your burning questions about life on the ship. I'm going to start off easy, with one that requires no pictures. I can't really take any at...
View Article'tonight he said my name'
My friend Deb, one of the charge nurses down on D Ward, has written an update about the patient I mentioned last week.You should read it. I dare you to picture what she writes about without getting...
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island of adventure
When you live on a ship in West Africa, there's a certain sense of monotony that inevitably creeps into life. Our cabin isn't exactly palatial, and even taking into account the rest of the real estate...
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giving thanks
I saw this poem first on Tim Challies' blog when he posted it at Canadian Thanksgiving. It's from The Valley of Vision, a book of Puritan prayers and devotions. I can't think of any words more...
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seventy-five minutes
Zoe is sick. She's typically the happiest baby I've ever met (and I've met a few), so when she spent the morning alternately sleeping in my arms and screaming at me, I knew something was wrong. She...
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three months
Zoe's three months old today, and she's fighting through her ear infection with smiles. She laughed out loud yesterday for the first time. We were dancing together, listening to All the Single Ladies,...
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saying goodbye
Ironically, one of the constants in our lives here is change. With four hundred crew from nearly forty countries coming and going, our group of friends is always shifting and re-forming itself. We've...
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I've been feeling increasingly disconnected from the work going on downstairs over the past couple of weeks. Zoe has been sick and I'm pretty sure she's hitting the dreaded four-month sleep regression...
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hope and joy
Last night was the second Advent service, the one where they light the candle of Joy. I remember so vividly that service last year. I had found out I was pregnant just a few days before. No one knew...
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From across the ocean, I caught wind of the rising tide of fear and pain on Facebook yesterday. I opened up my computer and sat, stunned, as images and words flooded my screen while my daughter napped...
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four months
Zoe is four months old today. Well, yesterday anyway, but we were busy getting her shots and moving house (more on that soon!) so this post just didn't get itself written. This past month hasn't been...
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moving up
Housing on board the Africa Mercy can be something of a nightmare for HR to figure out. With volunteers coming and going every week, I can't even imagine the headaches that some with solving the...
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so this is Christmas
I was just getting ready to write all about Christmas and why I love it so much here when I made the happy choice to open my blog reader. It turns out that Dan and Tiffany, friends of ours, just...
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I'm halfway done writing a post about Zoe's first Christmas, complete with lots of pictures, but I just have to interrupt myself to share this precious, African moment. Our new cabin is right next to...
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On a blog I recently started reading (but only go there if you're ready to have your heart torn up a little bit), the writer hosts "Five Minute Friday." Given a prompt, you're supposed to sit down and...
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where there is no wal mart
After a short hiatus over the Christmas holidays, we're back to walking on Wednesday mornings. Zoe's got a cold which she graciously shared with me, so we're both slightly miserable, but nothing was...
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five minute friday: dive
It's Friday again, which means I have five minutes to write while Zoe naps. That's the joy of Five Minute Fridays, I think; I get the satisfaction of having written something, and there's still plenty...
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chapel barn
Camp Iroquoina has been a part of my life since before I had memories, and so many of my best ones happened there. I grew up there in long, hot summers and whirlwind winter weekends. It used to be a...
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pray it out
I do believe it's high time for an update on Zoe's sleeping habits, if the frequency with which I'm still receiving e-mails on that score is any indication. It's amazing how much research is out...
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