Stefania has successfully overcome her first week of pre-school. She quite enjoyed it, and looked forward to going each day. She didn’t actually speak to the other children or the teachers (in either language), but she did at least play with some others instead of playing by herself with other children around, which is what […]

Although I had few of the normal activities for the last few days, I have been kept busy mostly with other things. On Friday evening the ladies’ group came - the house has to be more than spotless when a dozen women come to visit. Then there was the teenagers’ meeting on Saturday afternoon, that […]

We had a good time in Tuscany this week. Pinuccia commented that it was good to have a “change of air” from the usual activities at home. Being able to talk with others in similar situations to us (missionaries, cross cultural marriages, father working at home, two small children) was helpful as well. I also […]

This afternoon there was the Reformation Day service in church, to remember the principles on which the church is founded. So we looked back at what some of these principles were, and our guest speaker reminded us that the real reformation starts from a personal encounter with God, which then can change external forms, even […]

This is one of the exceptions to getting one night free a week, as I mentioned last week. Today is a public holiday, so I have both today and tomorrow night free. Public holidays used to be a bit of a nuisance to me, as it didn’t change much except I was able to do […]

At the moment there is the second half of a rarity: two nights off during the week (that is excluding Sundays). Usually the maximum is one, which I guard jealously to at least have some time with the family. But the way the church programs work out, every eight weeks I get both Thursday and […]