A good friend of ours has been a missionary in Africa for a number of years. Now married to a Kenyan, she is based out of a small village there. Rob and I have long supported her and her organization, Living Room Ministries International ( Read more... )

Recently, the boychild had a Family History assignment for his Language Arts class. I made the mistake of dipping my toe into Ancestry.com and have become obsessed with doing genealogy research. So many ancestors! Is this the right Meyer? Is that the right Kephart? Thank god for online databases and scanned original documents ( Read more... )

...swirling down into a deep depression...

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11 years ago today, which was also a somewhat rainy day, if I recall correctly, the hubby and I were at baiacou's house with some other friends from Highlander days. They had come to town to go to a special viewing of the series end being given by Gillian Horvath, one of the writers from the show, whom several of us had gotten to know at cons and via ( Read more... )

I don't care how heathenish it is, I put flavored Coffee Mate in my tea. I *like* it that way.

This afternoon, demeth, aka the hubby, and I are putting in an offer on a house. We would greatly appreciate crossed fingers, toes, or any other body parts that you perceive to be appropriate and vibes/prayers/etc. sent into the universe or to the god/goddess of your choice ( Read more... )

We have made it to South Dakota in our travels (waves at celli on general principle). We are currently in Hot Springs and will check out The Mammoth Site once Rob gets back from running and then head to Wind Cave National Park. Then we'll be spending the next three nights at the Mt. Rushmore KOA (we had to - it's someplace called Palmer Gulch!) as we ( Read more... )

Okay, we have Winnie (mostly) packed and are getting ready to head out. First stop: Yosemite National Park, then making a big loop over to Mt. Rushmore, down through Colorado and New Mexico, and over to the Grand Canyon ( Read more... )

I have no AC and no hot water. Either one of these things would be most annoying on it's own. Together? They are likely to drive me right off the edge. Especially in SoCal during the summer ( Read more... )