today is my last day here in port-au-prince. tomorrow i fly back to kansas city. today, tomorrow and friday will be days of transitions. . . transitions from beautiful warm weather and sun every day, to possibly cold weather, rain, sleet, snow or ice. transitions from limited options to almost unlimited options. i won’t go [...]
Archive for February, 2012
transitions. . .
Posted in Uncategorized on February 29, 2012 | 3 Comments »
color. . .
Posted in Uncategorized on February 22, 2012 | 3 Comments »
i love color. i love bright color. the sky lights in my ceiling got cleaned and there is awesome light streaming in my house. i have painted my room a beautiful blue. now everything feels bright and cheery!
Lense. . .
Posted in Uncategorized on February 15, 2012 | 1 Comment »
This little guy (or big guy!!) is headed home with his soft spoken mother. Lense was born on Monday. He is one of the chubbiest cutest babies I have seen recently. His mom just walked out of the door being sure to thank everyone who cared for her. My niece and nephews prayed for this [...]
big baby!
Posted in Uncategorized on February 14, 2012 | 1 Comment »
these are the faces that you make when you are getting ready to have a 9 pound baby! carol delivered an almost 9 pound baby at 40 years old. it was her first baby. i am proud of her! she was not as happy as we were in these pictures while she was laboring!
Do you want the Victory??
Posted in Uncategorized on February 14, 2012 | 1 Comment »
Sometimes, I have a subject put on my heart and I think it is interesting how so many things are making me think about said topic, yet I ignore it. Tonight is one of those nights. I have felt like I have needed to write this post for a while. But I keep putting it [...]
a great saturday. . .
Posted in Uncategorized on February 4, 2012 | 6 Comments »
all my mornings start with this french press and a bit of haitian coffee. this morning i was motivated to do some cleaning. so away i swept, and swept and dusted and dusted. really, you can never get ahead of the dust here. seriously, i dusted and 10 minutes later there was dust on the [...]
new jewelry
Posted in Uncategorized on February 3, 2012 | 2 Comments »
helping the women in the jewelry program here at heartline is truly something i love. i love it because. . . it is colorful. it is peaceful. it is life-giving. these are some of their newest designs.
my heart hurts. . .
Posted in Uncategorized on February 3, 2012 | 6 Comments »
Sometimes I like to try to read in Creole, just to see if I can understand and also to help my vocabulary. Reading and writing in Creole is a huge challenge for me and an area where I need to improve. So practice makes perfect right?? With that thought in mind I was reading scripture [...]
friendship. . .
Posted in Uncategorized on February 2, 2012 | 4 Comments »
Meet two of our program women. This is Marvena and Etrenne. Marvena came to deliver yesterday morning. This was her eighth pregnancy and really when she showed up yesterday morning, she said that she had pressure when we urinated and that was about it. That hardly made a convincing story for labor. But, then I [...]
full days. . .
Posted in Uncategorized on February 2, 2012 | 2 Comments »
this last week has been really full. i went to northwest haiti christian mission from thursday last week to tues. morning. coming back on tuesday required getting up at 4 am. getting on the truck at 4:30 am. taking a 45 minute flight. for some reason i feel like i am still recovering from that [...]
