We had just picked up the mail from the post office and were overjoyed with the fat package from our main supporting church in Kansas in the stack with the usual bills. We eagerly opened it and found a stack of letters from a 3rd grade Sunday School class and Read more…
Ukarimu House “That sounds like me, both now, and as a kid!” These words burst from Chip as we sat in the pediatric psychologist’s office, discussing the results of tests conducted on Amanda to discover why she was failing kindergarten. In an earlier post, I described our adventures in home Read more…
So, here we were, educating all 3 children at home, our first time, with one in 7th grade, one in 4th grade, and the last, starting kindergarten…whew, quite the spread! I knew this would be a big challenge, but by that time, I was eager to tackle it! We were Read more…
We were on our long stint in the U.S., in Tallahassee, Florida, where Chip was pursuing his PhD in adult education. We had already been there a year, where our boys were attending a Christian private school. We usually had very positive experiences with Christian schools. However, there is often Read more…
Someone wise once said “How wonderful and pleasant it is when brothers [and presumably sisters] live together in harmony!” (Psalm 133, NLT) Human beings are created to be social creatures. Even God said, “It is not good for the man to be alone”, when he created Adam, the very first Read more…
There we sat in the rented 4WD vehicle looking at each other, stranded in the Aberdare Mountains, in the wild, with all the engine oil making a black river running downhill from under the vehicle. What do we do? Ah, but I’m getting ahead of myself. Not all our family Read more…
As mentioned in the first edition, family vacations are great times of rest, bonding, new experiences and adventures. But sometimes, those adventures don’t seem so great at the time. Nevertheless, they often grow on our hearts with the passage of time and can become a great source of reminiscing, sometimes Read more…
I wrote this post in 2017. On this July 4th in 2023, as I ponder my citizenship as an American, even as I have also applied to become a Kenyan citizen, these thoughts come up again. This is still relevant. Happy birthday America! Since childhood, I have always had some Read more…
There is a song by the famous singer Amy Grant I used to listen to all the time, called My Father’s Eyes. In it she talks about the old saying where people so often say this or that person has their mother’s or father’s eyes, then compares it to having Read more…
Family vacations – we all love them, right? I have almost a love/hate relationship with family holiday trips. I do love the sense of adventure, the change in dull routine, seeing new places, trying new things, and above all, getting to spend leisurely time with family. Nevertheless, sometimes these intended Read more…