First Day of School

Well first day of 5th and 8th grade. Time just flies. Jessie had fun re-uniting with her friends. Her history teacher/coach was impressed with the places she has been in her life. She is so excited to see everyone and about what the year is going to hold. Cailin on the other hand is stressed and it is only day one. She just felt the day was very hard. She is already afraid she will not pass, and it is only day one. Some tears as she went off to bed, everyone is quiet and sleeping at the moment. Makes me tired:)
We are getting ready for Mark to head to Togo on Sept 8th. He will actually go to the ship first in Benin and then off to Togo to get things in order for the ship. He is excited. he loves his trips to africa. Wish we were all going. Spending time now paying off Mark's school loans.
I am ready for the fall weather. It was hot again today.

We need help:)

OK, so apparantly we are not good at this. We are trying to figure out what we did wrong with the link to the blog. Perhaps my sweet husband has been out of IT too long, hehehe. So he is trying to fix things. Jessie worked at the office with me today and she thinks that she is going to run the front office tomorrow while Cynthia is out for the day. I guess we will see. She looked so grown up today. Our friend Cynthia took us out to dinner at tour favorite restaurant, Villa Montez. I had Chilean Seabass and it was heavenly. The girls always love the food and ended with the HUGE chocolate cake. I managed to avoid even licking the chocolate off my fingers. I have ended yet another day with some fresh cherries. I dont know what I will do when they are all gone for the year. I love them. We walked through the door and Cailin went to bed, she was soooo tired. Tomorrow is her last day of day camp and Jessie will work with me for the half day tomorrow. I love fridays!!!!! ok just figured out in my fatigue i spelled hitch hiker wrong when i first gave the link to mark to send out. oopppps.

Here we go

Ok we are going to try blogging, again. We are giving up the website because our christian web host can't seem to filter out the junk coming through our email and we lost control of it a long time ago. So we are not going to waste our money on that any more. So here we go trying this again. So we will start getting this updated. Thanks everyone.

Happy New Year: Pray for Guinea

Happy New Year!! We are having a quiet New Years, the girls and I sat outside our house and watched some farmers fireworks across the fields next to our house.. They were pretty cool for a low budget display. Guinea continues to unravel, please pray for the people of Guinea.

Christmas, 2008

MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! We are having a quiet Christmas as I recover from my surgery. The girls are so excited we got a second hand fish tank and goldfish for them for Christmas.

December 22nd, 2008: Mark's Hernia Repair

I'm headed in for surgical repair of my abdominal hernia, today. I f any of you haven't seen it, it is the size of the a football sticking out right below my rib cage and my kids called it "Experiment 626" a.k.a. Stitch. The kids have written messages on my body for the doctors. They include "Warning: Contents Under Pressure!" and "Danger Blast Zone" and so on. The surgeon expected me to be in great pain and need to spend the night in the hospital due to the size and complexity of the surgery, but I felt nothing and didn't even take any of my pain meds, my total meds for the first week was 8 ibuprofen. PRAISE GOD!

December 20th, 2008: Guinea Coup

Over the last 6 months I have been warning our leadership that we should look for another country other than Guinea for the 2010 Field Service because of the Junta regime and the fragility of its leader Mr. Conteh. He did die today and a young Captain in the Army has launched a coup. He has threatened to kill anyone involved in corruption, which is just about every government leader and members of Mr. Conteh's family and friends. Please pray for the people of Guinea as they struggle to live through this uncertain military action. Please also pray for my team as we scramble to set up protocol negotiations with Angola and Congo, two countries that we have never been to before.