I wrote this a year ago, when we first moved into this house, and never hit publish. I was trying to take a video tour to add to the post so you could see what I was talking about, but it didn’t turn out well, and so I was going […]
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Home – #1000gifts
Our hostess, her son, and his bride during the ceremony. The groom’s father speaking. A marriage blessing from the oldest man in the community. I’m sitting at a wedding dinner, in a spacious house made of mud bricks with a tin roof that clamors loudly when the rain pours […]
Read MoreOne Year Reflections
Our one year anniversary in Thailand came and went more than a month ago. I think we were in the middle of hosting volunteers and dealing with gastro intestinal issues, something we do on a fairly regular basis living here, so we didn’t even mark the occasion until later. We’ve […]
Read MoreThe Blessing of Water
After rainy season comes dry season. Gradually the rain peters out, and suddenly you realize that it’s been a few weeks since it has rained at all, and then a few months. It may rain once or twice during this season, what we call winter, because it’s cool, but not […]
Read MoreAdaptations
If you want to adapt quickly to a subtropical climate I highly recommend showing up 7 months pregnant at the height of the hot season and living without air conditioning. Half an hour after Dek was born, just after I got out of the shower, I felt something I had […]
Read MoreHappy New Year From Thailand!!!
We were privileged to celebrate the New Year with the children at the nearby Grace Home, run by our good friends at Compassio. They had Mukake, Thai BBQ, and movies and sugar so all the kids had a lot of fun. (Some of the sugar was our fault because we […]
Read MorePHFR – The missing updates
It’s been ages since I did a PFHR post, and I don’t know why because I’ve been taking a ton of pictures. So these pictures aren’t necessarily from this past week. I have a lot of archives to catch up on from the past few months. Pretty I’m so glad […]
Read MoreScorpion Eaters
A little while ago we were sitting around a little fire outside in our yard, because it was family night and the kids had asked for a fire. I was just starting a story when Aaer ron yelled, “Everyone get back!” We live in the land of poisonous vipers, and […]
Read MoreOn Being a Spectacle
“I wonder if it would be rude to take pictures of the people who take pictures of us when we’re out.” Aaron laughs when I ask this. “Does it matter? They’re taking pictures of you.” A farang family with a baby and several blond (ish) children causes quite a stir […]
Read MoreImages
There are things I want to show you, but don’t have any photos of. This is partly because they happen too fast for me to pull out my phone and snap them, also because my phone can’t catch these things adequately and the big camera is kind of a pain […]
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