In the past week ...

It's not the beginning or end of the week, but I'll still just mention some of our events and doings in the past seven days.

• We finished reading Pippi Longstocking as our after-dinner book.
• Aisha is sleeping through the night about half the time.
• A frog is living under the fridge in our hall.
• Luke is obsessed with Middle Earth, castles, archers of Rohan, and silly putty.
• Barb spent a morning in the hospital getting Aisha's shots.
• I spent a day in the hospital getting a small abdominal hernia repaired--wonderful to be cared for not only by experts but friends.
• We had a farewell potluck dinner--five of the seven missionary families are leaving in the next two weeks.
• Barb took clothing to the crisis pregnancy office, and learned that they had just had two young, destitute women come into the program.
• Our cat is pregnant again (OK, that didn't actually start this week)!
• I talked with Shaba Adams, a convert from Islam, about the dissertation research that he is doing and how I might give technical help.
• Luke and I played Stratego for the second time ... a game I used to love when I was about his age. Luke won.
• Barb and I enjoyed an Italian movie, "Bread and Tulips."
• We also spent an evening looking for old friends on Facebook. Happy to find some, it's fun to get reconnected. Examples:
  • one friend from high school (39 years ago) found me and added me as a friend. It turns out their family also knows another missionary right here in Jos.
  • we found one of Barb's college friends (King's college in New York), who is now connected with the same church and Christian schools in San Diego where I grew up and my mom taught.
• We're proud of our kids and the great job they are all doing raising our grandkids. Hope to see all of them before the end of the year.