Hi, thanks for checking in. We are doing well, better than yesterday anyway. There has been a bit of a stomach bug going around - Josh had it a couple days ago and I (Tania) had it yesterday. Hopefully it will skip right over Jim and Grace. Thankfully it is just a 24 hour thing. Today is a beautiful day, the house is clean, and there is a cool spring breeze blowing through the windows.
We have a couple days of our final break left. Back to school on Monday for the last 7 weeks of classes - wahoo! We will be working on Field Methods, Translation, Training Across Cultures, Phonology, and Program Planning. Your prayers over these last seven weeks will be crucial as we are feeling a bit stretched. We praise God for His grace that sustains us.
Over the last several weeks we have been working on preparations for the kids' homeschooling for next year (I love this time of year!) The kids have had a great year at school here, even so, they are really excited to get back to homeschooling, and especially homeschooling in Vanuatu! Making preparations has been a challenge though. In the past we have relied so much on the library, Barnes and Noble, and Amazon.com, etc., but obviously we wont have that luxury in Vanuatu. We don't really even have those luxuries in Australia. I think we don't realize how good we have it in America until we go somewhere else. There is just so much available to us in the States. Still, after lots of prayer and research, and the help and advice of others that have homeschooled in the upper grades, we have a plan - and we are really excited about it. I can't wait! Believe it or not, the other day I had the kids do some placement tests and they were loving it! Josh was begging for more. I felt like we were playing 'school', and for one day it felt like we had our family norm back!
A couple of days ago we received a 'complaint' ;) that our care package page is out of date. Ya, it has been a while since we have updated it, but really we have had all that we need. Now would be a good time to add some things though. We have updated it with new things, particularly things to help with homeschooling and other things we need as we get ready to head back to Vanuatu. There is the link on the right hand side of the blog >>>, or you can
click here.
Well, I think that is all for now. Would love to hear from you =)
Tania, for the crew.
For fun, I will throw in a picture...
This is Jim and I on a date at the Queen Victoria Market
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