OceanicThai

...and excited to go back to Thailand, where the bugs are much bigger!

We are going back in just a little over a week from today! What a fantastic answer to prayer!

Every time I come home I gorge myself on books from the library or books from friends. This year I read less because I became temporarily addicted to my daughter's Nancy Drew computer games. (Fun, very fun.) I noticed that Poppy, too, is becoming a bookworm (& Nancy Drew computer game fan. At least it's a thinking game, she is actually learning something, instead of blowing things up.) However, I still read some good books: My very favorites of the Summer: "Blink" by Malcolm Gladwell (Thank you Les & Pricilla for lending me the book.) "The Tipping Point" by Malcolm Gladwell (Thank you Wendi) "The No.1 Ladies' Dectective Agency" series by Alexander McCall Smith "Long Wandering Prayer" by David Hansen (Thank you, Dave & Irene) Others: All of the "Left Behind" series except the latest (Thank you Bear Creek Church, for lending me books.) Sonlight Homeschool Curriculum Core 4 books for Poppy's homeschoolin...

And one more trip, this time to San Diego. The kids don't know it yet but a friend is planning to take them to Disneyland, what a treat for them! This Saturday we're having a garage sale, so all week we have been busy cleaning, organizing, pricing, and getting ready for the big selling bonanza. I don't know who has more junk to sell, my parents or us. Friday we will celebrate Jasper's 7th birthday early. We'll be in San Diego on the big day, so we'll have our cake and presents a few days before. The theme is G.I. JOE. We tried to tease him that he was just going to get socks and underwear, but he didn't believe us. We'll have lunch as a family, including the grandmas and grandpa, and then we'll go home for cake and presents. Someday I hope we can have a real American birthday party with lots of friends. It's one of those things I hope they don't feel cheated about later. On the other hand, they never had to feel stressed that their p...

This is another landscape in the town near our village by the church's property.

This is the church property with taro root growing on it near where we used to live in the village of Wang Aye Poe.

Kennedy finally posted some more art. The landscapes are new, the other ones are older. Madonna is one of my all-time favorites.

We have been a week away from our kids now, and another week to go. What a strange feeling to be away from them so long. We went to the Chicago art museum yesterday-wonderful art, just too much to absorb in one day. Later we met with friends and went to the Russian Tea House (Tea Time? something like that.) Delicious food, our friends ordered entrees, we just ordered Borcht. Kennedy has been doing some beautiful landscapes, he hasn't posted them yet.