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different now
I had just woken Zoe up from her nap yesterday afternoon when I heard the patients' chairs scraping across the roof of our cabin as they got ready to come inside from Deck Seven. I scooped her up and...
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intestinal intruder
Fair warning: this blog entry is probably best read far away from food. I've been living the missionary life for a while now, and while I love pretty much everything about what God's called us to, I...
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babies without milk
And now for something completely different, since I think we could all use a little change of subject after the last post, no? A few months ago, we mums on board got word that a group of ladies who...
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seven months
Zoe is seventh months old today, and her list of accomplishments is growing by the minute. When I wrote her six month post, I was certain I'd be back this month to report that she's crawling all over...
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five minute friday: remember
Linking up again with Lisa-Jo Baker and a whole community of free writers for Five Minute Friday. Today's prompt: Remember.Go. Last week, I was talking with another nurse about a patient we took care...
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twenty four hours to pray
Over the past couple weeks as I've worked a few shifts, I've been struck the the number of patients in D Ward who are there for reconstructive surgeries following battles with noma. I've written about...
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two updates
My heart is so full - I have two awesome updates for you. First, thank you all so much for praying for our four noma patients. I shared your responses with the nurses on the wards who shared them with...
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five minute friday: broken
Linking up again for Five Minute Friday with Lisa-Jo Baker. Today's prompt: Broken.Go. I laid awake deep into the night yesterday, waiting for Zoe's cries over the monitor, knowing that I would go to...
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welcome home. or something.
Last night, Zoe learned how to flip over while still snugly wrapped in her swaddle strap. This sort of behaviour falls firmly in the 'unsafe' camp, so the long-awaited and much-dreaded cold turkey...
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ali tumba
Zoe and her best friend Hailey had a pool date this afternoon. I know. I, too, almost died from the cuteness of it all. It would appear that she's feeling better, and I never even had to break into...
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heartbreak and hope
Every other Tuesday is milk distribution day for the Babies Without Milk program here in Conakry. This morning, we decided to take advantage of the fact that we had milk to deliver for Alseny and...
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babies again
Here's another glimpse of that moment I was talking about the other day, the one that nearly had me on my knees in the red dirt. Here is Tracey's account of the day: Milk Delivery. Head over there for...
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five minute friday: here
It's nearly the end of Friday for me, but Zoe's down for a nap and I finally have a minute to write. Five minutes, to be exact, since I'm linking up again for Five Minute Friday with the gang over at...
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homemade teething biscuits
Raising a baby on board a ship is, in a lot of ways, pretty easy. Someone else cooks my meals and does my dishes. The view out the window constantly changing (and thus endlessly entertaining) with all...
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stressed out. or not.
On the way back to the port after our traditional Wednesday walk to the market, we arrived to find the gangway in use. Under the watchful eye of the crew physician, a nurse, and a translator, an older...
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eight months
Zoe is eight months old today, and to celebrate, she spent her first full night unswaddled last night. (I know I said I was doing it forever ago, but I chickened out, okay?) It went better than I ever...
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As I was heading back to the cabin just now to put Zoe down for a nap, we happened to pass the blue stairs at just the right moment. The patients were all coming inside from their time on Deck Seven,...
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five minute friday: friend
From Lisa-Jo Baker today: So let’s spend our five minutes of writing today, sharing about friendship. Fight it, love it, hate it, hurt or healed by it, we were certainly built for it. Today's prompt:...
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wet wednesday
After a glitchy couple of days around here wherein all the photos disappeared from my old entries and I couldn't log in to post any sort of explanation (in case anyone even noticed), my fabulous tech...
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something beautiful
It's nearly eleven at night. Zoe and the HoJ are both fast asleep, and I know I should be in bed too. But I have something amazing to share with you. If you've been reading since the beginning, you...
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