Archive for Timothy
An Afternoon of Sightseeing
After a 3D movie at the theater I took the kids to the bridge. This is a relatively new attraction here in Cochabamba. It connects the Cine Center with a lovely section of town called the Recoleta which are separated by a river and a highway. The Recoleta has bunches of good restaurants, ice-cream and [...]
Cry Baby
He shuffled in with tell-tale hunched shoulders. I knew what had happened. Standing pools threatened to overflow his coffee colored eyes.
“Today was a very bad day,” he stared as the tears brimmed over and dripped to the floor.
Cry baby. That was what they called him. My heart was torn. Part of it agreed with the [...]
Vlog Kids July 2009
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Vlog: “Kids July 2009″
Location: Cochabamba, Bolivia
Date: 29 of July ‘09
18 Wishes
Big sister’s eyes widened in surprise and disbelief as she was told the laptop in front of her was her’s alone. A few steps behind her the brother’s eyes moistened in disbelief and offense. He mumbled a pitiful reproach, “I have only 18 wishes.” Hushing him up as quickly as I could I determined to [...]
Kid Vids Links
My new fun thing to do is edit videos. I still have much to learn but this week I did some videos of my kiddos. They planned the content. If you would like to check them out here are the links. (If these links are not working please alert me to that fact.)
Video of Tyler [...]
Feed the Birds
Friday we took some left over gingerbread and fed the birds at the plaza named after Cristopher Columbus. It was a bright day and we enjoyed our time in the fresh air very much. I imagine the birds enjoyed it too. This song was in my mind the whole morning:
Feed the Birds
(From the movie ‘Mary [...]
Gingerbread
Gingerbread houses and their decorators:
My recipe makes six houses and six trees. Good to know. The kids had a good time frosting and sticking and licking and tasting the houses and their decorations.
I learned something about myself while we were doing this project… I like to frost cookies. It is like the reward for all [...]
Building
Being a parent means learning how to build. The prayer of my heart is to not mess up too much. Then I trust that God will do what he needs to with my precious ones. Being mama is the most scary most thrilling and most wonderful thing that I have ever done.
Our school year starts [...]
Park
Park (n.) in Spanish is “parque”.
Park (v.) in Spanish is “parquear”.
Parking lot in Spanish is “parqueo”.
Why do we park? Because we are not meant to be in motion all the time. Why does ‘walk in the park’ have such a pleasant lackadaisical connotation? Because we go to park our brains, park our planners and park [...]
Bilingual Babies
We are a bilingual family. This has occasioned many interesting observations from people who speak only one language. The most common is, “Poor kid, he must be confused from trying to learn the two languages at the same time.” If this person has seen me using sign-language with my baby they usually tack on something [...]
On this journey of life, sharing my existence with God’s wonderful creation, there is nothing that thrills my heart more than knowing that my moments drip with purpose and destiny. 